The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution

really cool video scrubbing interface

Indiana Jones IV

It’s just fine. It’s no great meditation upon aging, but people have aged. It’s perhaps not the most inspired of the plots, but it’s not breathtakingly stupid…

in short, it works. You’ll enjoy yourself. Go see it.

very interesting two page short story

http://qntm.org/?admin

Smari, this is particularly for you.

astonishingly geeky story

http://hop.perl.plover.com/cover.html

worth reading to the end

solar powered pith helmet

that is all

war, peace and the matrix in a chinese MMO

http://www.danwei.org/electronic_games/gambling_your_life_away_in_zt.php

long, hard to summarize, good.

what struck me most is that what we’re seeing is the beginnings of real political awareness in MMOs. that needs study.

astonishingly hilarious british tea rap

i can’t tell you how good this is, you just have to watch it

by MC Elemental

Swivel - charts and graphs of global data

http://www.swivel.com/ - this is just really really cool and really really useful. I’m already a big fan, and I only just found it.

Fabulously disagreeable but interesting blog post on America

http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2008/04/26.html#a2139

Talking about the class system etc. I can’t agree with many of the conclusions or the underlying models, but I’m absolutely sure that some of the observations mentioned are pure gold.

“cricket on crack” is Simply Not Cricket

“The Indian girls who tried out so far were so beautiful and so good, they were practically better than us,” said Sharica Brown, 27, a Redskins cheerleader from Baltimore, as she snacked on a plate of nachos before the game at Bangalore’s Hard Rock Cafe. Nearby, Indians in heavy-metal T-shirts downed cheeseburgers and jostled to get a glimpse of the visitors. The women said they were enjoying India and had already been filmed in a Bollywood music video. Some had also indulged in a shopping spree for sparkly Indian-designed shirts and chandelier earrings.

Jazzed-up cricket has already become a huge business. Some players are reportedly earning nearly $200,000 a week during the tournament. Sony signed a $1 billion deal for exclusive rights to film and photograph Indian Premier League games over the next 10 years. Several international news agencies, including Reuters, the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse, stayed away from the match Friday to protest what they consider unreasonable restrictions by Sony.

Cricket purists complain that the abbreviated version of the game is cheapening its traditional stately tone.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041803577.html?referrer=digg