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Ignorance is bliss?...NOT! ...atleast in the case of music. Its heartening to see someone write so highly of a true genius... Read Richard Corliss on the all-time best-selling recording artist who can't get a break in the States ... A R Rahman!

I was listening to songs from Mani Ratnam's Roja ( which was in the Time's all time list of Best 10 Soundtracks ), when I thought of searching for the movie on YouTube... enjoy till the copyright cops catch up... Kaadhal website from Dheena New York Nagaram from Sillunu Oru Kaadal Paartha Mudal Naalil Uyirin uyire from Kaaka kaaka sutrum vizhi Dhalapathi roja roja Mazhai Mazhai Kaathlagi Chinna Chinna Aasai..(Roja) Kadhal Rojave - Roja Minnale Nee - May Madham Munbe Vaa - Sillunu Oru Kadhal Unnai Kandane - Parijatham

A windows explorer crash...One moment of inspiration...One creative mind...A master piece is born...

Someone's taken the pain to compile a list of free software available for download from the Microsoft site. I use many of them. Very useful for any windows user, although some of the stuff linked are for windows developers. Get the list here .

Sand animation is the name given to a style of live performance art in which the performer creates a series of images using sand; a process which is achieved by applying sand to a surface and then rendering images by drawing lines and figures in the sand with one's hands. To increase visibility and to add further artistic aesthetic, a sand animation performer will often use the aid of an overhead projector or lightboard. Watch this Sand Animation by Ilana Yahav ...and this one by Ferenc Cakó . It is a video of his live performance at SICAF 2003, in Seoul, South Korea.

While stumbling across the web, I came across this web site which lets you create faces - familiar or just imagination by bringing together many features in a nice pencil sketch. Check it out here . Also lets you save the face you have created on to the server and to print it.

Thanks to Martin's weekly newsletter , I have come across a great tool called Rasterbator . The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 20 meters in size. I can now go about decorating my flat !) The best part is there is a standalone version that you can download and run from your machine. (Needs .NET framework 1.1 installed, though)