Looks like Zune will come with some preloaded content. I like that idea. Another thing that I thought to be cool was that it would let you loan tracks to your friends for a day.

 

I say why not combine those and let me add whatever music I want to my zune before I order it. The tracks will only last for a day after I hear them for the fist time or for 2-3 listenings. This gives me a great opportunity to try out new music before I decide to buy it. In fact why not let me downoad any track for listening once in full... may be at lower quality. If I like it I buy it. This 30 second try out on most music sites is just a joke. I hope they change that model... I'm waiting...

 

India created lot of technical geniuses through IIT's, the institute that has the repute to be the toughest school to get in. Now We are aspring to do the same thing in the field of pure sciences with IISER. The two schools started in Pune and Kolkata recently.

 

I hope the Government adopts the same hands off approach for IISER that it used in case of IIT to let them grow organically to be amongst the best in the world. Redirecting some of India's new found corporate wealth to these institutes might also help them jump start on infrastructure and facilities.

 

Kudos to the eduation ministry for this and I'm looking forward to some great research coming out of IISER.

New layout of Google video is a youtube ripoff. So finally they seem  to have realized that watching a flash optimized video in large window does look crappy. :)

An amazing magic trick I saw today thanks to digg. Watch it here. There's also this other one that might not be as stunning but check out the background score. That should give you some surprise.

 

edit: Btw his name is Criss Angel. He runs a poular show on A&E called MindFreak

Take part in this survey and see how many of the Google services are used by the world. No surprising results here. Though it's interesting to note that  just a couple of hits can fetch you 8 billion in annual revenue.