A talk that tingles the brain...

From Ted website:

In a wide-ranging talk, Vilayanur Ramachandran explores how brain damage can reveal the connection between the internal structures of the brain and the corresponding functions of the mind. He talks about phantom limb pain, synesthesia (when people hear color or smell sounds), and the Capgras delusion, when brain-damaged people believe their closest friends and family have been replaced with imposters.

Randy Pausch's speech

Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor. He has pancreatic cancer and expects to live for just a few months. He gave one last speech, 'the last lecture' which is on Google video.

A must watch.

India poised

Sharing a video doing the rounds.

iPhone - 99, Treo - 70: A rank for every product

Wize.com the product research site gives a rank to every product from 1 to 100. 100 being top of the charts, and an assurance to the consumers to unhesitatingly buy the product.

So for instance, if you were in the market for a smartphone and wanted to know the gist of how iPhone compares to say Treo 650, Wize tells you the score a.ka. the WizeRank for each of these.

iPhone 99

Treo 70

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Wharton Club of Northen California (WCNC) has invited Tom Patterson the CEO of Wize.com to speak about the company. As always my interest is to learn not just about the technology, product or idea but about the process of forming the company, the pains of building the venture, ideas for finding talent and like minded team members.

If this sounds exciting do come by, grab a lunch and hear Tom talk on August 30th in San Francisco.

Here is the link to the event.

A blog for MBA wannabes...

My blog get quite a few visits from aspiring MBA candidates even thought there is practically no content on this blog that could be useful to them. Sometime feel the urge to write a post for that audience just because I am getting so much traffic from various bschool blog aggregators. Maybe I will do that sometime, in the mean while would like to offer link to Marquis's blog. Marquis is a Stanford MBA with background in IT. His blog is dedicated to answering questions that many of you might have. I don't know Marquis personally, I do think he is doing a great job of helping those considering applying to business school especially those who have a technology background or other non-traditional backgrounds.