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i somehow had a good impression of Ram Jethmalani, until now. he argues that merit, which is reflected by a test score, is the manifestation of an underlying incident.. which is pretty much a random genetic accident. and hence can’t be used to recruit. the dude is now officially senile. check out this rediff report.. […]

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Yahoo! Maps released Driving Directions for india maps. some of the nice features are to get landmark based directions. for example, “cubbon park bangalore to lal bagh bangalore” gives the following directions :

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Straight (0.4 km) on a local road in Gandhi Nagar, Bangalore

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Take Slight 4th Right (past State Central Public Library on the right), go […]

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these guys have done it right.
(a) good content
(b) you can embed the videos, and here’s the killer : you can embed parts of the videos : pick and choose the good parts of the videos only.
bonus: check out my favorite alfred hitchcok. there is no way to search yet, but well done, NBC/Fox.
wordpress doesn’t let […]

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the profile keepers remind me of email aliases and web domains. ten years ago, when a new email services started, everyone rushed to grab the alias they wanted. everyone rushed to register their last names, pet’s names, business names, societies, etc. if you didn’t grab them, someone else will, right?
in the same way, anytime a […]

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’social graph’ is an idea that every individual is connected to many other individuals, there by creating a n:m network of people. facebook.com is a social graph, so are any other well known social networking sites like myspace.com, etc. that makes one wonder:
what’s new, and what’s next?
in the good old days when programmers wore ties, […]

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