Google Chrome is lighter than a feather..

.. and faster than a ferrari. While iPhone has been a marvel with engineering feats shining out from within an artistic framework, Chrome has some artsy shine from within a very well engineered housing. Love the ride round the webby town on it. Not as many features as Firefox but sometimes less can be more. Does have a good feature to synchronize bookmarks over the cloud through Google account login. Has a clean, uncluttered look that is Google's hallmark.

Silence please

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/opinion/sunday/the-joy-of-quiet.html?_r=1

When I was young, I had no conception of the possibility of something like Google. My young daughter perhaps has no conception of a world without Google. For me it's wonder when it can provide an answer, any answer. To my daughter, it's sometimes frustrating when Google cannot read her mind to give her the answer to the question she is asking. Beyond all the wonders and frustrations, can we imagine a world tomorrow where some future information device can compress and condense our information stream and help us with the process of reflecting upon it, meditating and ferreting out the meaning from it..

Between toddler and teen

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/science/now-we-are-six-the-hormone-surge-of-middle-childhood.html?_r=1

Caste, class and capitalism in feudal and entrepreneurial India

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/world/asia/indias-boom-creates-openings-for-untouchables.html

Another New York two thousand years ago

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/science/dura-europos-a-melting-pot-at-the-intersection-of-empires.html?_r=1

Two ears and one tongue

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/opinion/sunday/in-africa-the-art-of-listening.html

The job of inventing a new operating system

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/opinion/sunday/americans-and-god.html?_r=1

Agnidaah: Farewell Fire

Sanskrit: Agni; Latin: Ignis; English: Ignite

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/us/in-economic-downturn-survivors-turning-to-cremations-over-burials.html?_r=1