Hulleye Comes By!

ever wonder how to count in binary and what the hell those 0’s and 1’s mean. well here you go. learn to count binary on your fingertips.

due to the advent of the internet over the past couple of decades, communication mediums have been introduced into society that nobody ever had. technology has helped move communication to levels never before seen with IM, Email, VoIP etc. but even the telephone, facsimile, telegram, the ballpoint pen, and the invention of papyrus was a step up in communication methods from what people used previously.

forbes has a brilliant collection of well known celebrities in their respective fields to speak about different means of communication and how it affects our society today and how it has matured over the years/centuries etc. they cover communication in all forms, technology, science, commerce, culture, commerce and other celeb interviews.

some examples:

arthur c. clarke, best known for his novels ‘2001: a space odyssey’ and ‘rendezvous with rama’ speaks on how to “join the planetary conversation“.

noam chomsky on “the spontaneous invention of language“. chomsky is a world renknowned political activist and linguistics professor for MIT.

jane goodall on “why words hurt“. i recently mentioned goodall here. as did von aurum.

david copperfield on “keeping secrets“. copperfield is a famed magician who was engaged to claudia schiffer. (bastard).

wil wheaton on “blogging“. wil wheaton of uber geek fame, unfortunately more commonly known as wesley crusher does a very unique IM interview.

steven pinker on “why we have language“. i mentioned pinker here recently.

there’s many, many more such as
stan lee of marvel comics fame,
vint cerf, the “father of the internet” for developing tcp/ip,
sid meier, one of the most important computer game programmers ever,
walter cronkite, america’s favourite anchorman,

and many, many more. do check it out.

updated the blogroll a bit. removed a few pointless links. do you guys want me to disable the click history? i’ve turned it on as a trial for now. lemme know if i should disable it or if it gets annoying or something.

jay varma. geek of geeks.

nabeel zeeshan. passer by with good tid bits.

bakpak chik. funny rants and bohri topi’s.

fristed. no comment yet. dudes got no feed.

chapati mystery. seems like it’s cool to link here.