Time has published a list of 50 coolest websites. Some of them are pretty interesting. At a Micro-level, I liked Pandora, where the site has the intelligence to judge my taste and offers me the music (songs) similar to the one that I choose in the beginning.
Some of the sites are US-centric though, and some of them (YouTube, MySpace, Meebo, Google Spreadsheets) dont need any introduction. On the whole, you will come across few which you may find worth-a-dekko.
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Interesting Birthday Calculator
Came across this interesting site to check the details about your birthday that you may not even have considered. Eg: The position of the moon at the time of your birth, the day of your birth, the demographics of US at that day etc.
It also offers you the personality traits for those born on a given day.
http://www.paulsadowski.com/birthday.asp
It also offers you the personality traits for those born on a given day.
http://www.paulsadowski.com/birthday.asp
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Recent Book Read
Recently finished "Stephen Hawking - A life in Science". The book left me mesmerized because of several reasons. For those of you, who do not know who Stephen Hawking is - He is the most popular scientist/ cosmologist of the second half of the 20th century and is known as Einstein of our times. Even more interesting fact about him is that he suffers from a disease called ALS, where the patient becomes completely paralysed but his brain is not affected at all. So he is always in the wheelchair and communicates to the world through a computer fitted onto his wheelchair.
You will find this book worth-a-read if:
- You have known about him but want to know about his personality and how does he treat the world and the destiny given the fact that he has been disabled for life at such an early stage of his life.
- You have always wondered how can someone turn the obstacles into the opportunities.
- You always wanted to know what does cosmologist do in this world. You had heard about Gravity, Quantam Mechanics, Relativity etc but always struggled to synthesize the information.
- You want to go deeper into the origin of the universe and everything unknown around this.
What surprised me the most was couple of traits of Stephen's personality. He always wants to be treated like any other normal guy and he loves some of the statements about him that any other disabled person would have hated.
In one of the seminar attended by a large gathering, One of Stephen's close friend introduced Stephen by saying that "Stephen's disease is twice as old as his youngest son. That clearly shows some of Stephen is certainly not paralysed." Stephen loved this introduction!
The book certainly forced me to think more philosophically about the origin and the purpose of life. Are we really living in the real world?
You will find this book worth-a-read if:
- You have known about him but want to know about his personality and how does he treat the world and the destiny given the fact that he has been disabled for life at such an early stage of his life.
- You have always wondered how can someone turn the obstacles into the opportunities.
- You always wanted to know what does cosmologist do in this world. You had heard about Gravity, Quantam Mechanics, Relativity etc but always struggled to synthesize the information.
- You want to go deeper into the origin of the universe and everything unknown around this.
What surprised me the most was couple of traits of Stephen's personality. He always wants to be treated like any other normal guy and he loves some of the statements about him that any other disabled person would have hated.
In one of the seminar attended by a large gathering, One of Stephen's close friend introduced Stephen by saying that "Stephen's disease is twice as old as his youngest son. That clearly shows some of Stephen is certainly not paralysed." Stephen loved this introduction!
The book certainly forced me to think more philosophically about the origin and the purpose of life. Are we really living in the real world?
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