links for 2006-11-08

interesting factoid “Khaike pan banaraswala was apparently a song for Dev Anand’s film “banarasi Babu”, but Dev thought it was too “downmarket”. The song lay in the cans for close to 15 years and then was added by the makers of Don to lighten the mood of

Amazon.com has been experimenting for nearly a year with a program called the Mechanical Turk to find workers capable of completing brief tasks that can not be performed by computers.

Mohandas Pai on moving to head HR from being a CFO : I have had to quickly change my thinking—from understanding the impact of policies on financial conditions to their impact on an individual. This is tough, because policies impact individuals differen