Rungta’s + Friends’ Webmarks http://prateekrungta.com/webmarks Combined feed of webmarks posted by Prateek Rungta and his friends. en-us Copyright 2008 Prateek Rungta Filmy Classical http://filmyclassical.tumblr.com/ prateekrungta.com/webmarks,374 Prateek Rungta Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:11:01 -0800

A record of classical music in modern Indian films

Curated by Rakesh.

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]]> The BBC Boys on the 2010 F1 season http://prateekrungta.com/webmarks/373.webmark prateekrungta.com/webmarks,373 Prateek Rungta Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:13:31 -0800 The brilliant Martin Brundle, David Coulthard the Scot, the opinionated Eddie Jordan and Jonathan Legard join the witty Jake Humphrey for a round of talks on the ever so close 2010 Formula 1 season.

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]]> An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6233YW20100304 prateekrungta.com/webmarks,372 Prateek Rungta Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:32:58 -0800 Or so they say. Gareth Collins, one of the authors of the study, writes:

The KT extinction was a pivotal moment in Earth’s history, which ultimately paved the way for humans to become the dominant species on Earth.

Drunk with domination, we humans might not need an asteroid to wipe ourselves out. (Via Abhishek)

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]]> Programmers don’t like to code http://rentzsch.com/notes/programmersDontLikeToCode prateekrungta.com/webmarks,371 Prateek Rungta Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:52:51 -0800

We solve problems by coding, and we’re all happy and enthused while typing away or talking code. But they’re confusing the action and the intention. It’s not pulling the trigger that makes me happy, it’s hitting the target. The action approaches incidental.

Bang-on-target piece by Wolf Rentzsch. I strongly concur with his second argument too, that in most cases programmers rewrite/reinvent to learn and understand, not just for the heck of it.

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]]> Iglooo | Compare Book Prices in India http://www.iglooo.in/ prateekrungta.com/webmarks/friends,90 Rashmi Swamy Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:16:24 -0800

Iglooo was inspired by Mr. Jaswant Singh’s controversial new book - rather an attempt to buy it online at the best possible price. Having spent a reasonable amount of time store hopping and comparing pries, we figured there should be a better way.

A much needed idea, implemented with a nice minimalist interface.

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]]> Full movies on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/movies?s=mvp&t=&cr=GB&p=1 prateekrungta.com/webmarks/friends,89 Rashmi Swamy Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:10:15 -0800 Isn’t this awesome. Hope they keep adding on to it.

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]]> Paying Zero for Public Services http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/paying-zero-public-services prateekrungta.com/webmarks/friends,88 Rashmi Swamy Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:40:17 -0800 Fighting corruption with 0-money. That’s a nice new concept.

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]]> How to use a semicolon http://theoatmeal.com/comics/semicolon prateekrungta.com/webmarks,370 Prateek Rungta Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:31:16 -0800 Random sentence with a semicolon; shows that I’ve got the hang of it.

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]]> Snapsort http://snapsort.com/ prateekrungta.com/webmarks,369 Prateek Rungta Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:51:31 -0800 Camera showdowns based on their specifications. Should come in very handy when choosing a new camera.

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]]> FontFriend http://somadesign.ca/projects/fontfriend/ prateekrungta.com/webmarks,368 Prateek Rungta Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:25:55 -0800 Very useful bookmarklet by Soma Design for live sampling most font–related CSS properties. Gains a permanent place in my toolkit for designing in the browser.

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