Nadig and others have started Sampada - a site for all things Kannada. It has taken off really well in a short period.

There are Kannada-related articles, blogs, discussions, book reviews, a learning center and any thing you would like to contribute!

From the perl.perl6.language newsgroup:

Dave Rolsky wrote: Hurry up and finish. I want to use this language, darnit! And yes, I know about pugs, obviously, but for production usage I need less of a moving target

Larry Wall wrote: Yes, Perl 6 is a moving target–but one of the most bothersome facts of life is that, to get anywhere you’re not, you have to move…

… in case you already didn’t know:

• Project Gutenberg
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Wikibooks

Good article on The Time Thieves by Dr. Donald E. Wetmore.

(via LifeHack).

Anush “interviews” me.

P.S. No, I did not select that photo.

This is a “photocast” of the Independence Day celebrations at the Parikrma Jayanagar school.

Radio City ran a campaign which helped collect 3300 books in just 2 days!! The books were given to Parikrma today.

Everyone were given Indian flag caps. I think the caps were made by the children since it was colored using crayons.

Teachers singing the Vande Mataram song

The Indian flag was hoisted by Major Ishwar. The number of medals he wore were too many to count.

Nehru and Bapuji ‘reborn’ to talk about the state of India today. Their talk was mixed with poetry recitals by the students. They spoke almost flawless English.

Poetry recital

Audience included the volunteers, interested people and the children from Sun, Asteroids, Venus and other classes.

These tiny tots sang the Kannada ‘Le La Li Lesu’ song loudly.

The Director of IISc talks to the children.

Bhaskar Dutt, VP of Radio City, commends the children.

The Parikrma march past group won an award at the Independence Day Parade at Field Marshal S H F J Manekshaw Grounds.

Prayer before lunch

For more, see this Flickr photo set.

Read about the Indian independence movement on Wikipedia.

Update: The Presidential address.

There’s an article on Parikrma in The Hindu.

My favorite Parikrma poster is about atoms. Atoms are recycled in this universe, as you probably know. Potentially, we could have atoms that once belonged to Einstein or Mozart. The Parikrma volunteers believe these underserved children have the same potential as well.

P.S. Is it true that Mozart composed ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ when he was 5? I remember reading that on the plastic bags provided by Landmark.

Aamir Khan is blogging as Mangal Pandey?

Somebody pinch me, I still can’t believe it. Is this for real?

(via Mekin)

Update: Scoble confirms it is authentic.

We had a “Y! Bangalore Showcase 2005″ on Friday, August 5th, 2005.

It was an internal showcase where all the teams and groups have the chance to showcase their projects and interact and brainstorm ideas on how they can collaborate and use each others’ expertise.

For more than a week, our office had no walls, just posters everywhere, including the rest rooms. And there were some real corny but cool posters, like the DBA guys’ poster that said “Database Backend is the backbone and we are the lifeline” and the Multimedia Search team’s poster that said “If it’s not in our index, it does not exist.”

There were lots of contests and games going on, from quizzes to mazes of names where you had to pick out names of yahoos, to guess-the-ringtone contests. It was a whole fair going on. I spent most of the morning, explaining Buzz to a lot of people. I was finally able to go around and visit the other teams in the afternoon, and there were some real eyebrow-raising projects being showcased. Unfortunately, I can’t talk about the cool stuff or the teams (but it’s fun being in the midst of it all, and getting to tell you about it much later when the cool stuff is thrown out to public), so I’ll just let some of the photos show off the enthu that we had that day.

	Ajay boogieing
	Eat-the-chocolate-and-tag-your-partner-who-runs-next game during lunch
	Guess-the-Ringtone Game
	Philip Tellis giving Karma
	Our CEO and guest wearing the Data Drome headband and having fun with the group.
	Premshree and Gopal
	Our group, the Data Applications Group, won the grand prize! We’ll be soon going for a team outing to blow the dough.
	The Six Thinking Hats (Yeah, one’s missing)
	Our Group celebrates.
	The Yahoos
	The Yahoo! Employee Foundation India poster. I had taken that photo during our visit to Parikrma.
	“Employee Benefits” poster
	You Yahoo because we do.