Something worth hanging on to for rainy days: Kamen … said every entrepreneurial innovator he’s ever seen shares a few characteristics. “It’s not that they’re brilliant or well-educated,” Kamen said. “They work all the time. They don’t let failure demoralize or destroy them. They pick themselves up and keep going and eventually, every once in a while, [...]
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Dean Kamen on Innovators
13Jan09Un Ke Dekhe Se – Mirza Ghalib
13Nov08Un ke dekhe se jo aa jati hai mun par ronaq, Woh samajhtey hain keh beemar ka haal accha hai. Dekhiye paate hain usshaq buton se kya faiz, Ek brahman ne kaha hai keh yeh saal accha hai. Hum ko maaloom hai jannat ki haqeeqat laikin, Dil kay khush rakhnay ko Ghalib yeh khayal accha hai. And here’s the wonderful Jagjit [...]
Wow Day
03Aug08I have 3 Wows to give out today. WhyNot.net: I was Googling to see if anyone else was curious about using active noise-cancelling techniques for turning down the volume (in some sense) on babies. There are serious technical challenges (such as that current noise-cancelling devices target a point sink), but it’s a cool idea and even [...]
Whoa.
16Jul08Check this out. I need more time to process it (and read up on most of them)…but whoa. And there’s our man Aitzaz Ahsan at #5! (Obligatory disclaimer: I don’t trust Aitzaz Ahsan for a minute.)
Salvador Dali is the King
12May07Was? Hmm. Slate’s awesome Today’s Pictures recently did a (http://todayspictures.slate.com/dalihap/). Dali Atomicus, above, is my favourite of the ones in the gallery — absolutely striking. This is the sort of art I can appreciate: no blather about the artist’s background or influences, just switch off your brain and look. Everyone visiting London should plan to spend an [...]
Ridiculous, insane strength
27Apr07Syed sent me a link to this guy, a former gymnast who now chronicles his training for parkour and is just ridiculously strong. Like, one-arm chinup ridiculous, and clapping handstand ridiculous. Anyway, I figured YouTube was bound to have something interesting on the topic of ridiculous strength, and sure enough I came across this. The first time [...]
Vista!
15Feb07Seems I’ve permanently broken Ubuntu. I’m not sure quite what happened — I was switching my partitions around so that /home would be off on its own, and the next thing I knew, half my documents were gone and Kubuntu wasn’t booting (‘kdestartupconfig’ has troubles, apparently). Anyway, I salvaged my Windows installation and tried starting [...]
Probably very funny
10Feb07This is hilarious. (Explanation: with a fair dice, each face is equally likely to come up. Hence, the expected value is (1+2+3+4+5+6)/6 = 3.5, rounded up to the next integer, 4.) This one’s pretty funny too. I can’t tell what the last one is though…the Laplace transform of love? As people say here, quali’y.
Scrubs ‘My Musical’ now online!
22Jan07Yay, the latest episode of Scrubs, the much-awaited ‘My Musical’ featuring such sure-fire hits as ‘Everything Comes Down to Poo’ and ‘Guy Love’, is up. Rejoice!
Internet Hilarity
20Jan07Insomnia sucks, but here’s the good that’s come of it: This The OC spoof goes beyond genius…it’s mind-blowing, plain and simple: The ‘Bu. (Ooh, and Elliott from Scrubs is in it!) This Beastie Boys/Dre-and-Snoop rap spoof is also high-high-quality: The Chronic(what?)les of Narnia. This is genius, but you’re going to have to know all about MJ’s career to [...]
Check out the new post on the Nairang Foundation blog. Atif’s a recent LSE graduate who has implemented a great idea for raising donations for The Citizens Foundation. It’s a great example of how to pitch in, and an inspiring success story to boot! Please feel free to forward a link to others, or cross-post from [...]
Links Day
10Nov06The stupidest man alive. ‘Nuff said. Now everyone can dunk. Yep, all you have to do is shell out $50-150 an hour, and your personal trainer will plyometric-ise you till you finally feel like a man. FM, SH, I hope you’re paying attention. What is 78 * 23? And am I stupider if it takes me longer [...]
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