Interesting Sites

* Introduction *

This page was started in December 2000 when i decided to put down some interesting sites which i come across while browsing the net. The style is sopposed to be narrative. The sites listed here do not neccesarily reflect my personality.


A new device code-named Mira from Microsoft.


Described as "The only if not the largest collection of funny and odd Headlines, Photos, and Video-Clips" at 3BP.com.
Gamesmania is a multi-lingual PC gaming site providing news, reviews, articles, trends in the Gaming Industry.
Keen.com:- a live answer community.
WildBlue provides high speed wireless Internet.
Take a llok at this site. It is called Dullmen.com which proclaims to be - "A place in cyberspace where Dull Men can share thoughts and experiences, free from pressures to be "in and trendy," to enjoy instead the simple, ordinary things of everyday life.
Mircosoft's new OS Whistler is out in the open.


Well all those who thought grasshopper is an insect - here is some trivia. Grasshopper is also an orthogonally p[ersistent OS.
Grid computing is becoming more and more prevalant. Take a look at Entropia!


After B2B, B2C the latest fad is P2P (Peer-to-peer computing). Perhaps the best example is Napster and its lesser known cousin Gnutella and MojoNation.
Some of the projects that use P2P are http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/, http://foldingathome.stanford.edu/, Mersenne Prime Number Search ....
Along with P2P a number of new-generation Search Engines are coming in. Infrasearch going by the name GoneSilent is one of them.
Next to come is Grid Computing. Watch out for that. Imagine selling your idle CPU cycles.


I have registered with New York Times. They have a cool service called Abuzz, a knowlwdge sharing system over e-mail, where I found this Impossible Brainteaser. Try it out.


On Republic Day India was rocked by an earthquake, said to be one of the most severe in recent history. The National Earthquake Information Center provides near real-time information and bulletins about the major earthquakes across the globe.
Know about Tarahaat.com - a road that connects the Indian villager to the rest of the world.


Adding a number of interesting sites now. Found a new underground search engine. Try it out.
The Slightly Less Than Official Homepage of Spork - a blend of sp(oon sb. + f)ork sb.
eBlots is a fun site that lets you flex your creative muscle for a few minutes each day.
The official Smurfs Web site.

Zona Reasearch provides research information about Internet and e-business.
IT news from the Ministry of Information Technology.


After B2B marketplaces for all kinds of physical goods here is one of Intellectual Capital Exchange.

In case u want to make money and also contribute to some research visit Mindpixel.


Microsoft's Terraserver lets you see arial images around the world.


Linux How-to tutorials.
More Linux related sites like the official one, and a number of others....


How Stuff Works has covered the Consumer Electronics Show 2001 quite well.


Interested in guns and rifles. Kalashnikov and M-16 are two good pieces of equipments.


For those who want to start amateur photography this site by Discovery is quite informative.


If u are interested in puzzles then u might recognise this page


This site has come too late. I wanted it during my childhood. Interetsed in Style, Fashion? This one is for u.


Well there are numerous examples of Auction/Reverse Auction/Demand Aggreation sites etc. But this one from ebay is really cool - named half.com.

Those who are interested in trivia try this.
For jokes visit Joke of the Day.

This site is all about sideburns. It even has a museum and a newsletter. Sounds cool!@#$%

Then there are numerous sites for the geeks. Some are quite educational like Nikon FM-10 with a 35-70 mm zoom lens. My other equipment include a Sigma 80-300 zoom lens, a Mekablitz flash, filters, cable release etc. My interest in Photography was rekindled during my college days where we had a Photography Club. We had regular training sessions that gave me both the theoretical as well as the practical aspects of photography.

Digital Photogrpahy is the in thing. Those with an old manual SLR need not despair. Check this site.

Digital Living has come to it's age. There is this cool monitor for the geeks and not so geeks too.

For those sci-fi fans here is a site for u.
What's happening on the Internet.

BusinessWeek in its Internet edition has listed the Best Products of 2000.
Are u interested in New Business Paradigms.


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