Popular science fiction writer, Arthur C Clarke passed away today[March 19] in Sri Lanka.

Goodbye Clarke. And thanks a ton, for the superb odyssey.

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Sir, now you can buy a Tata Nano. Hurray !!

Business Week -

It’s called the Nano, for its high technology and small size. It’s cute, compact, and contemporary. It’s a complete four-door car with a 623-cc gas engine, gets 50 miles to the gallon, and seats up to five. It meets domestic emissions norms and will soon comply with European standards. It’s 8% smaller in outer length than its closest rival, Suzuki’s Maruti 800, but has 21% more volume inside. And at $2,500 before taxes (value-added taxes increase the price by about $300), it is the most inexpensive car in the world. Starting this fall, the Nano will roll off the assembly lines at a Tata Motors (TTM) plant in Singur, Bengal, and navigate India’s potholed roads.

Written by a friend’s dad, GC Sarma, these are nuggets of wisdom for the contemporary, information overloaded society.

There was a blogpost here that I posted for fun, couple of hours back. It read that Lazy Geek will be directing Mani Ratnam. On the hindsight as they say here, I didn’t want to use the names of real people so I deleted the entry.

But here’s the fun link. Write your own news. Again do not use real names.

S Anand has a neat kollywood music quiz[Part 1 & 2]. He tells me that a tougher 70’s quiz is en-route. The pompous blogger in me wants to add that I got all of them right.

Remember Vineeth in Gentleman, here’s Sharath.

Anantha (e) Anti pointed to the latest post on his blog, The Chennai Right to Information Initiative, a citizen movement which will be kickstarted this weekend at Chennai. This seems like a better idea than transforming into an Anniyan.

Let’s say you are someone who’s escaping this intiative by an excuse that you work at Bangalore, hee hee, there’s another way to volunteer your time. IVA or Individuals for Voluntary Activities is a non-profit organisation operating from bagalore, has volunteers mainly from software organisations and students who chime in for vounteer work over the weekends. If interested, you could contact the IVA team directly.

List of best open-source software for Windows. Don’t forget to check-out the democracy player.

The Three Great Virtues Of A Programmer.

Here Comes GBuy, Watch out Pal…err…Pay Pal.

Enjoy your work but slack off.

Tips. All about Google.

Finally, Researchers uncover cause of asthma.

Up Close and Personal - Windows Vista.

Google - Sun and the infamous rumor that caused an uproar.

Ajaxing your way through Web 2.0.

Spice up your I-Tunes.

and finally

The case of Einstein and obscure factoids.

All links found while Digging. Urge you to start DIGGIN !!

…wait. Watch Vanamey Ellai or e-mail Sneha. Seems like many BPO/IT guys knew this much before us. Its a pity !!

Not only Prabhu bought the first CD of Rahman’s Rang De Basanthi but also he probably wrote the first review for it. Ferrari Fast !!

RSS is everywhere. RSStroom Reader. Pretty Funny !! [Via Seth Godin]

Hemanth throws valid questions on the declining standards of Tamil Nadu Politics. I agree with both of them.

The Hindu Prakash Jha’s recommends Apaharan.

Bhaskar Ghose writes a fabulous column on the Kushboo Issue, The right to speak freely.

“Make your bed in the morning, help out in the shop, and read a book a day”. I wish I had to do atleast for a few weeks. Jeremy Micer writes about a great book shop Shakespeare & Co. [Via Uma's indianwriting].