I came across a post about a list of 1000 books that you have to read before you die on one of my daily stops on the Internet, Kottke. The full list is available here. Out of the 1001 books, I have read a total of 128. I have marked ...
Category: Reading
Read MoreIn today's religious climate, its not very easy to rise up in front of a crowd of your peers and elders and have to state the uncomfortable fact (for them) that you do not believe in the things that they believe in, and that your belief system actually consists ...
Category: Society
Read MoreThe idea for this post came from an event called eDemocracyCamp held in Washington DC that I happened to come across. As the name might tell, eDemocracyCamp is based on the BarCamp model, and its purpose according to their website is "eDemocracyCamp will connect citizens, researchers, developers, practitioners and anyone ...
Category: Society
Read MoreMy playlist over the past two years has steadily been dominated by indie & former indie bands from Canada, the States and the UK. Bands such as The Arcade Fire, The Killers, The Shins, Interpol, Death Cab for Cutie, British Sea Power to name a few, and lots, lots more. To ...
Category: Music
Read MoreOne topic that I've followed quite regularly since I became aware of it is information visualization. My first brush with this field was through Edward Tufte's website and specifically the page where he analyzes the visualization created by noted French statistician Charles Joseph Minard to represent Napoleon's ...
Category: Design
Read MoreI'm sure anyone who is even a remote follower of gadget blogs would have seen the steady trickle of ultra-mini laptops over the past six months or so. The first culprit to emerge was the Asus EEE PC, followed by the Cloudbook by Everex and now HP's sleek-looking ...
Category: Gadgets
Read MoreThe genesis of the name for this blog is simple. Its just the initials of my three names put together - S S S. My purpose for starting this blog is also as simple. Keep honing my limited writing skills on topics as far-ranging as homebrewing beer to the Large Hadron ...
Category: Ramble
Read MoreThis blog contains my disorganized and highly opinionated writings. It shall flit from topic to topic without any regard to the interests and appetites of its readers. Outside work, I spends my time in achieving a long-held dream of becoming a polymath
Category: Ramble
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