Prabhu, the organiser of the blogger vodkathon, has put up a video promo of the event, so please do watch it. If the vodka's not incentive enough, it's going to be held at my cocktail lounge on April 01.
I'm off to Mumbai on Friday morning and will be back only Wednesday evening, so the LinksMatic will not be updated for nearly a week. See y'all when I get back! (Those of you who have my number and haven't called, I'll be carrying my mobile phone with me.)
Are you a blogger in Bangalore who likes his or her vodka? Well, why not celebrate April with the mega Blogger Vodkathon being organised by Prabhu on April 1?
Sexual abstinence ground for divorce, says our Supreme Court. Our divorce laws are still weird.
Yet another Google Beta site: this time it's Google Finance.
Is Whole Foods Wholesome? - The dark secrets of the organic-food movement.
In what language do deaf people think?
Over 100 Quick and Easy Healthy Foods. I need to try these one by one.
Video game therapy has helped a 9-year-old boy recover from a serious brain injury.
Thailand Tsunami Then and Now Gallery is a comparison of some tsunami-hit buildings and regions in Thailand, photographed from the same angle. (Very bandwidth-heavy; not for dial-up users.)
Taxmen set to strike, says the headline. No, the Income Tax department isn't planning raids; they're planning to go on strike. I think this can be safely filed in the "we don't give a crap" folder.
Mexico discovers 'huge' oil field that could contain 10bn barrels of crude. Look for an announcement shortly from Bush saying Mexico has WMD. ;)
Ten Obscure Factoids Concerning Albert Einstein. Did you know he hated Scrabble?
MIT Researchers Restore Vision In Rodents Blinded By Brain Damage: "This technique, which involves giving brain cells an internal matrix on which to regrow, just as ivy grows on a trellis, may one day help patients with traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries and stroke. " I sure hope so.
If you live in Bangalore, be sure to tune into Radio City 91 FM on Monday, 12 March, at 2 PM. I will be interviewed on the programme called "Swalpa Hatke" on my career change to a restauranteur. It's an hour long live programme. I'll do my best radio voice too. ;)
Scientists discover swimming ants in Australia. This is believed to be the only species that can live, swim and navigate under water. Whoa!
Newsdesigner.com is a weblog about newspaper design from around the world.
Jesus has appeared again, this time in a pasta dish. The Lord works in mysterious foods...
Samsung's SCH-B600 phone is just another phone with a digital camera. Except that it has a 10 megapixel camera built-in. And it's not freakishly large either.
Record Set for Hottest Temperature on Earth: 3.6 Billion Degrees in Lab. "This is hotter than the interior of our Sun, which is about 15 million degrees Kelvin."
A Welsh woman was fined 200 pounds for putting make-up on while driving. (Hema Srivatsan, please note this.)
There are less painful ways to commit suicide than biting yourself to death.
Mozilla made $72 million from Firefox. Hey, it's more money than Microsoft made from IE.
The divorced woman as easy prey: Jai Arjun Singh writes about why women in India persist in bad marriages instead of divorcing.
Dave Werner's Portfolio 2006: This is possibly one of the best designer portfolio sites done in Flash. Just amazing.
Anatomy of My Affair: "An honest account of one man's affair and the ways it changed him forever."