I had recently mooted the concept of WebGraveyard.com, where your presence in the online world will forever be preserved, including your social networking profiles, blogs, etc.
If anyone is yet not convinced this is a great idea, check out Online-Funeral.
Online Funeral allows mourners to participate in the funeral ceremony via the Internet, and if their appointment …
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Logo Design using Paint.net and Inkscape
I am not a graphic designer and do not have the dedication required to learn complex graphic applications like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. However, I do have an artistic itch. Hence when my wife endeavored to set up a business partnership for a corporate psychological training service firm, I endeavored to design their logo. It …
Web Graveyard
Very few people I know blog about death. It is not a pleasant subject, and essentially, one reads blogs to be happy. But let’s face it, death is very real. Though cyberspace was once known as the virtual world, it is becoming increasingly real, and the overlap between online and offline is getting increasingly complex.
As …
Adding My Restaurant in Google Maps
For fun, I decided to add my restaurant in Google Maps. I found out there were two things I could do – add it as a Local Business via Google Maps, or use Google Mapmaker.
Adding Local Business to Google Maps
After logging in to my Google Account, Google Maps let me add a business listing from …
Utterly Butterly Advertising
For a very long time, my post on Amul: Longest running ad campaign in the world? is one of the most favorite search engine hits. I do not know why net searchers are fascinated with Amul’s ads rather than the usual utterly salacious searches with a dose of butterly. I do not know if it …
Can an open GPhone kill the restrictive iPhone?
Imagine you buy a car that comes with a 2 year warranty on defective parts and 3 free servicing trips. But what if those were valid only if you filled fuel from a specified provider — say Indian Oil or Shell? Or you buy a DVD player or home theater that can only play movies …
Techno-Social News Tidbits
Here’s some interesting news stories from the past few days.
It’s not 42, like Douglas Adams thought it would be. It’s 26. BBC reports that research has proved that a Rubik’s cube can be returned to its original state in no more than 26 moves. A supercomputer took 63 hours to crank out the proof which goes one better …
On The Origins of Homo Mathematician and Professor Calculus
On the occasion of India’s 60th Independence Day, the news world and blogosphere is abuzz with the news story that Calculus was created in India, 250 years before Newton.
The official news source says:
A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton …
India’s Ingenuous Condom Usage
While India plans a six-fold increase in spending to tackle AIDS, it is desperately searching for its own Mr. Condom:
Mechai Viravaidya, a former Cabinet minister in Thailand, emerged as an AIDS-fighting crusader in the ‘90s with an aggressive campaign to distribute condoms and educate the Thai public about HIV, helping to significantly cut that country’s …
The buzzzz over Crezzzzendo
On the heels of my earlier post on condom advertising in India, comes this.
Protests in Madhya Pradesh over Crezendo, a vibration-enhanced condom, reached a crescendo in political circles. Kudos to the Union Health Minister, Ramadoss, for sticking to his guns!
