Wanna see something that’ll make you cross-eyed and give you an eye strain??.

Well, then click on each word of this sentence and enjoy!

And don’t blame me if you turn into a squint or get temporarily blinded!! ;-)
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A group of information technology companies published a specification Thursday designed to improve the reliability of business applications that use Web services. The specification, WS-Reliability, which will be submitted to a standards body in a few weeks, was written by a number of companies, including Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Sonic Software. If accepted as a standard and adopted by Web services providers, will let a company ensure that a message sent between two different applications is delivered reliably. For example, a company could send a purchase order to a supplier via a Web service and be guaranteed that the message was either successfully delivered and performed its function, or that the transmission failed. Currently, businesses working with Web services can make sure their communications are reliable using specialized software or other established products. WS-Reliability seeks to create a standardized method that is widely supported. Read more. [via CNet News.com]

Secret Diaries of the Lords of the Rings!

This one is pretty hilarious too!! ;-) [via Metafilter]

I’m currently reading Yann Martel’s Booker winning Life of Pi. Its quite good actually (at least as far as I’ve read upto now). It perks up your curiousity when the author meets an elderly gentleman at the Indian Coffee House in Pondicherry. They start chatting and then the elderly man says, “I have a story that will make you believe in God.“.

Wanna see an interative promo of the book?? Well, then click here and enjoy an unusual and interesting promo of this book.

And ohh! if you want to read the author’s note and the first chapter of Life of Pi, then go here. [ via Metafilter]