Guts of Elon

I loved his master plan and master plan part deux. It shows his guts on his vision. Similar to them is his memo to his employees:

Our car needs to be designed and built with such accuracy and precision that, if an owner measures dimensions, panel gaps and flushness, and their measurements don’t match the Model 3 specs, it just means that their measuring tape is wrong.

Read it here.

All about Android Marshmallow

A neat overview of all the features in Android Marshmallow, by ArsTechnica.

Humans: Days of Future Past

Won't it be interesting, if we traveled to the past and see how humans predicted their future? Here is how the year 2000 would look like - as predicted in 1900.

What you do before bed, determines your productivity of the next day

Its not just your early morning habits determine the productivity of the day, but what you do before bed determines too. And no price for guessing that "browsing FB and Twitter timelines" is not one of them :-)


A nice one by Michael Hyatt.

Women dupe men to send money, but probably that is good for the country!

Three women duped many men to send money to them by creating fake Social Media profiles. Police found that out, but because of public outage, they are planning to drop the charges. Why? because the men are ISIS guys! An interesting read.

Discovering two Space Shuttles in an abandoned hanger

A photographer found an abandoned hangar and breaks into it only to see two Space Shuttles!

The Camera Behind the New Pluto Photos

What is the work required to send a camera to few billions miles away and take a picture in absolute darkness, so that you can get the pictures of that tiny planet in few hours?

By Atlantic.

How an Indian eCommerce ran out of cash

IndiaPlaza.com started eCommerce in India in 1999. It survived even the dot com bubble. But it couldn't stay float. Here is a detailed story.

Inside an Elephant Capture

Another amazing piece by Kalyan Varma for the Peepli

The days of world domniation by Skynet is near

Astonishing Time-Lapse Captures the Development of Baby Honeybees

The result is justs a minute long video, but imagine the weeks long effort would have gone into it

Hacking Starbucks for unlimited coffee

What an effort!
On the other hand, me too wanted unlimited coffee, but I simply switched from WFH to a regular IT office. Serves the purpose ;-)

Firefox’s optional Tracking Protection reduces load time for top news sites by 44%

Monica @ Mozilla explains that if we opt in for Tracking Protection in FireFox, many of the sites load lot faster. Documentation for opting in: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-firefox

40 Key Computer Science Concepts Explained In Layman’s Terms

Nice explanations of Computer Science Concepts. Eg: "For online shopping, the number of purchased item (input) doesn’t affect the delivery time. The output is constant. We call this O(1).
For online downloading, the download time is directly proportional to the movie file sizes (input). We call this O(n)."

Building beastly machines for 'Mad Max: Fury Road'

George Miller comes back with his classic Mad Max series, revived to the current movie standards. Here is how they built those "cars" and "trucks"

Next level of Selfie

What do you get when you put a camera on a drone that flies along with a tracker? A Lily Camera. An excellent way to take selfies while you are on the move.

Test driving a Petrol Car

When you are from future and look back whats happening now, this is how it looks like:

"We were surprised to hear the brakes are completely mechanical"

"... that it is not possible to refuel gasoline cars at home, and there are no free gas stations"

Living in office for 500 days

I can't spend more than 10 hours at office. But not everyone feels the same. Here is a guy who lived in office for 500 days!

The best part, in the performance appraisal, his manager said: “Good? It’s been great. I don’t have a single criticism. You seem happier lately, too.” When was the last time your manager said something like that to you? May be its time for you to stay back at office :-)

The selfies from the space

Just the same old selfies, but at a "higher" level. Of course, the images are by NASA. The latest one being taken by Mars Rover.

How to make money when you are drunk?

How to make money when you are drunk? Simple, start testing websites! This will be a good test for a UX designer's skills and to me, it seems to be a brilliant idea.