links for 2008-09-14

If using your brain to navigate makes it bigger and better, than what does using satnav and other technologies do for it?

As Non-Resident Indians (or NRIs) we are among the most educated and highest earning ethnic minorities in our countries of domicile – making the term NRI a metaphor for success everywhere. By any measure, we have reached a critical mass and a critical achievement level but, alas, there has been no global media platform to talk about our achievements, aspirations, our culture or multitudes of cultures, and even our idiosyncracies. We believe it is time for a magazine which does just that.

discussion on software piracy. The problem of free: it creates a free culture.