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Most parents would be able to identify with the pain mentioned here:
http://www.lovethissite.com/cry/
I always go to www.nytimes.com ,specially for the archives.There is a chance for you to see the front page of newyork times of any day since 1851.
And why?I want see how they have reported some of the major events in history.Forgot to tell you,I just read that the then Soviet Ambassedor wept when he filed past the body of Nehru.Check it out. :wink:
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/gene...7.html#article
Hi blahblah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How are you??????????? Great to see you!! It's been long time na?
Uhm!!!!!!!!!!
A company takeover,little glances watching your every move, eyes that penetrate your mind,ambitions,responsibilities and that old burden of 'proving oneself'.............
What else can keep me away from the hub? :lol:
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by blahblah
What is this new Avatar? Any interesting reason for that?
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/topstories.asp
This site has the most viewed, printed or forwarded news stories by the year for the past three years... interesting :)
www.indiaparenting.com ..you get links to many good sites..like grooming..hse decoration..relationships...cooking..etc etc
This is only a partial reply. Fot the last few years, I have been feeling that it is difficult to trust completely main stream media and started looking at 'independent' sites. Bias of the media is not new. I read long ago that the British government paid 500 pounds to reuters in the 19th century for favourable reporting. Around 1940 New York Times was neutral when Bertrand Russell was not allowed to teach in the City University of New York, I think. There ia a write up about it in one edition of "Why I am not a Christian" by Russell. Anyway, even with 'independent' sites you feel that they have some orientation and I keep shifting to new sites. Some I see off and on are:
http://www.nationinstitute.org/
http://www.indiatogether.org/
http://www.motherjones.com/
http://www.atimes.com/
http://www.tomdispatch.com/
http://www.truthout.org/
http://www.opendemocracy.net/home/index.jsp
http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
http://www.monbiot.com/
Arthur C. Clarke recently recommended blogs and wikipedia:
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp...C+Clarke&sid=1
There are a couple of articles in New York Review of Books:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18516
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18555
I have not really started looking at blogs yet except:
http://delong.typepad.com/
http://www.lehigh.edu/%7Eamsp/blog.html
There is a list of Indian blogs at:
http://indiauncut.blogspot.com/2005/...a-is-open.html
For economic matters, I have been looking at:
Brad DeLong's site:
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/
and more recently Jeffrey Sachs'.
As I said before, the list keeps changing depend on what problem bothers me at the moment. I would like to know about interesting sites for news and economic matters.
swarup
There is a request in a Telugu site for information about dictionaries of technical terms in vernacular languages, particularly Dravidian languages. I think that there is some information in:
http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/dravidian.html
http://www.languageinindia.com/index.html
I f you know of any other sites or books, please let me know.
swarup
http://www.orkut.com - Fun Online Community.
http://maddox.xmission.com/ - The Home of Pirate Maddox!!! Arrghh!! Anywayz, it's interesting to read some of his views on politics, immigration laws, Movies, Politics, etc etc. Note: DO NOT GO HERE IF YOUR HUMOR ISN'T LIBERAL. :wink:
http://www.capmag.com/ - Capitalist Magazine. Excellent Site! :thumbsup:
http://www.whichisworse.com/ - Vote on which is Worse in Various Situations. Remember vote for what is WORSE!!
For Ex: What is worse???
* Being in a dark scary room alone
* Being in a well-lit room with Michael Jackson
http://www.hindunet.org/ - U can find anything and everything pertaining to Hinduism here! Excellent Site!! :thumbsup:
http://www.freakydreams.com/freaky.htm - Type Your dream and have it interpreted Psychologicalle!! :wink:
http://www.wallstreetpros.com/ - A free virtual stock market game using pretend money. The player who's stocks go up the most wins a $100 cash prize (in real money).
PS: Must be age 13+ to win.
Here's a list of useful freeware applications:
Antivirus:
AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php
Avast - http://www.avast.com/
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Panda ActiveScan - http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan
Audio Players:
Foobar2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
jetAudio - http://www.jetaudio.com/
QCD - http://www.quinnware.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
Audio Utilities:
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dbPowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
CD Recording:
ASPI Drivers - http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/su...oduct/ASPI-4.70
CD/DVD Burner XP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ Burn 4 Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
CD Utilities:
Daemon Tools - http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/portal.php
Download Managers:
WackGet - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/
wget for Windows - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/
Encryption:
PGP Freeware Edition - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/ GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
Firewall:
ZoneAlarm - http://www.zonelabs.com/
Sygate Personal Firewall -
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Kerio Personal Firewall - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Outpost - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
GUI Utilities:
Tclock - http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclock/index.html
IconPhile - http://www.virtualplastic.net/scrow/iphile.html
PowerMenu - http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/
Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml
D-Color XP - http://dliboon.freeshell.org/products/dcolor/index.php
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/
Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/
Image Viewers:
IrfanView - http://www.irfanview.com/
iBrowser - http://ibrowser.fcodersoft.com/ AhaView - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/free.htm
Instant Messaging:
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Trillian - http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/
Yahoo Instant Messenger - http://messenger.yahoo.com/ MSN Messenger - http://messenger.msn.com/ AOL Instant Messenger - http://www.aim.com/ ICQ - http://www.icq.com Jabber - http://www.jabber.org/
Networking:
Putty Telnet/SSH Client -
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
IP Tools - http://www.ks-soft.net/ip-tools.eng/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/ HyperTerminal Private Edition - http://www.hilgraeve.com/htpe/download.html
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
Nmap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Programming:
ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/
jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
Dev-C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
MySQL - http://www.mysql.com
SciTE - http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
Publication/Document Manipulation:
OpenOffice.org - http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
AbiWord - http://www.abisource.com/download/
Spyware Protection:
Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Spybot: Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Hijack This - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
IE-SPYAD - http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/resource.htm#IESPYAD
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com
System Utilities:
BootVis - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664
Resource Hacker - http://www.users.on.net/~johnson/resourcehacker/
PC Inspector File Recovery -
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
Motherboard Monitor - http://mbm.livewiredev.com/ Sysinternals Utilities - http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml
WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA00...c/download.html
Video Players:
BSPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
Core Media Player - http://www.tcmp.org/ Media Player Classic -
http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=82303
VideoLAN - http://www.videolan.org/
Zoom Player - http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml
Video Utilities:
KVCD - http://www.KVCD.net
TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/
VirtualDUB - http://www.virtualdub.org/
Web Browsers:
Mozilla FireFox - http://www.mozilla.org/download.html
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
MyIE2 - http://www.myie2.com/
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/ SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm
Web/FTP Servers:
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd/
Filezilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ Xitami - http://www.xitami.com/ Apache - http://www.apache.org/ Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/
World's Smallest Website
Site : http://www.guimp.com/
Claims to be the world's smallest website. Smaller than a postage stamp, the site includes games, a webcam, weblog and multimedia all in 18x18 pixels.
This is a new "MINNAL -First Tamil Search Engine"
that is built for all the Tamil people and who knows tamil. Thanks for the Minnal Team who worked hard from the past 1 year to get this ALPHA release.
Currently the link for the ALPHA version is provided in the following link
http://searchengine.minnale.net
The official site will be avilable later
http://www.minnale.net
This site will work just like any other search engine. We have provided a english text field where you can type the tamil word using english letter. For example type 'ammaa' where 2 'a' is needed for nedil.
Right now we have covered around 60 sites and this will be increased slowly.
I would like to request you all to forward this to all the tamil people that you know and let them also start using. We are waiting for all of your feed back and the BETA version will be released for the coming "PONGAL"(Jan-2006).
Here are the few info about the search engine.
1.Feedback link provided to give the feedback 2.AddSite - to add - Known tamil site.
3.The minnal will get almost all the tamil website which has different font type.
4.We will add FAQ based on preliminary feedback.
5.The dynamic font will be provided for those who cannot see the current font type. This will get installed on its own.
6.We will invite as many tamil sites as possible to participate.
7.We will be approaching Tamilnadu Government,Srilanka and Singapore Government, tamil association around the word to help us more.
8.We will be having more ad. campaign via media,online forum etc., in future 9.Our ultimate aim is to provide search engine for ALL INDIAN LANGUAGES which are available in the WEB.
How stuff works?
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/speaker3.htm
A much needed News Portal....
http://www.happynews.com/
Anou: minnal-la ammaa-nu search panninnaa Jaya pathi onnum varalayee? :(
RC :lol:
If u people want to generate your horoscope, then this site is really good.
www.astrogyan.com
They generate more than 20 charts based on your birth time, date and place. Really a good website.
Ever heard of a longest domain name ? well here it is :
http://thelongestlistofthelongeststu...atlonglast.com
If you click on it you will be directed to a series of longest articles / events in the world.
A sample is reproduced below :
Do check the Most Expensive Series in the sections out there....
This is a nice web game....to track where ur notes are...
http://www.wheresgeorge.com
Chanced upon a very interesting site with condensed and elaborate history on India.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html
Hmm.....for a moment I expected to find info. abt the longest Saree ever made (tat one by Pothys).......:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Anoushka
Interesting site neways! :)
i think ....it would be www.friendship.com.au
www.aryabhatt.com ( for astrology )
www.google.com( for everything !...and ofcurse ...gmail...the fastest mail..esp. to send pics ..and attachments ..)
and ofcurse ....the HUB
Just noticed the following blog (seems to be in English as well as Tamil) which discusses, among other things, science topics:
http://www.thescian.com/blog/
I have not really looked thorough it except for the comments on mirror neurons.
swarup
Check out www.itwofs.com it's a collection of "inspired" indian songs from hindhi and tamil songs...it's quite good cause the webmaster in most cases provides one or both music clips for you to compare and decide for yourself whether a lift as occurred more than pointing fingers it's a fun discovery of sources for many of your favourite songs.
Some very good learning resources from NASA
http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/
Very Good online Dictionary
http://www.onelook.com/
WordCount™ is an interactive presentation
of the 86,800 most frequently used English words.
http://www.wordcount.org/main.php
I usually use the OED (Oxford English Dictionary) or dictionary.com
just found this site with images to show how stressed you are, check it out:
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~carltape...sc/movies.html
I tried the site Querida pointed out (it is very nice) on my children and got this in return:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/illusions.shtml
Just remembered. Some similar illusions are used in V.S. Ramachandran's research:
http://psy.ucsd.edu/chip/ramaillusions.html
can anybody post some nice prank sites :huh:
http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/
View the presentation...
Build aBetter Bush -Really funny
http://www.ilfoglio.it/uploads/camil...betterBush.htm
Yup, I was sent this by a friend once.......presentation's really nice! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by dev
:lol: Hey this one's really fun! :D :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by terminator
hehe termi :thumbsup: , really funny :rotfl:Quote:
Originally Posted by terminator
Dev thank you for that.... :D
Arthas surely there's enough of those...have you tried looking for them? I know especially humour sites have many email pranks...I used to get a number of them from friends. :roll: :P Most of the ones i got were from madblast.com
http://www.tsujiru.net/
has links to media-bias sites. I found in
http://www.tsujiru.net/?p=209
links to Allen Orr's reviews. some like his review of "Nature vis Nurture" are not there since it requires subscription. For a layman like me, it is difficult to see some of the subtle mistakes in much praised popular science books and I found Allen Orr's reviews very enlightening.
swarup