Robo cars with speeds of 15 miles an hour!

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139277-c,artificialintelligence/article.html

Carnegie Mellon's Robocar Wins DARPA Challenge
A robot racing team from Carnegie Mellon University beat out Stanford University to win DARPA's Urban Challenge, a 60-mile race involving self-guided vehicles.

Daylight saving time!

As if we didn't have enough of complexity in telling time already!

Look at this:

1 year - 365 or 366 days!
1 day - 24 hours
1 hour - 60 minute
1 minute - 60 seconds
1 second - 1000 milli seconds

No doubt all the children go nuts, when taught this! what is the relation between 365, 366, 24,60,60,10.

In US, also dates are in Month/day/year order! what kind of arrangement is this? To me day -> month-> year is logical.

Now to add more fun we have daylight saving time!
I hope now they don't decrease time between 12 to 1 from 60 to 30 minutes [lunch time] to boost economy!

Man with highest IQ?

Supposedly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Sidis

don't know what to make of these guys [or girls]!!

Time server and nice day night graph

It has a very nice day-night graph of the world:
http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?UTC/s/0/java

Hats off to Jews!

As a group they should have been the most persecuted in recent times. It is the resilience of humanity they survived to tell their story to grand children.

Nazi Genocide Timeline

Genocides of Rwanda, Bosnia or Gujarat riots pale in comparison [That is not to say they were not significant].

Nice scripting Q & A

More importantly it is written with good humour! Very nice to read:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/default.mspx

Uploading photos to web!

If you are searching a place for uploading photos to web,

http://picasaweb.google.com/

Is a nice one! Allows 1 GB free.

Also associated Picasa software is nice too. Makes uploading a breeze!

BTW, Vista has very nice image importing and organizing built in - Liked it!