2006

Waiter Rant: daily experiences of an anonymous waiter in New York. via Shruti’s post on Waiter Rant

Wikipedia says the human voice frequency for speech is between 85 to 155 Hz for men, and 165 to 255 Hz for women. That set me thinking. What is the limit to our hearing? How do sounds differ? How can we synthesise speech? What are the limits to our hearing? Kids can hear frequencies from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, while adults hear only up to 12-14 kHz (Frequency Range of Human Hearing). ...

This entire music video (set to the song "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" by Beck) has been filmed backwards. Comments Jeremy Lutter 11 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Hey Cool backwards music video! I filmed video backwards as well.. mine is a little dark and a little violent. http://www.memelabs.com/indiemv/index.php?play=475 I need your help I’’m a bit behind on votes. can you help out a fellow backwards filmmaker? Jeremy www.brokenmirrorfilms.com

When you make a link, there’s no guarantee that the link will work 5 years later. Sites change their URL structure. I’m finding that many of my blog entries from 2000 are invalid. Sometimes you want to link to a concept rather than a site. In such cases, it’s better to link to a Google query. For example, rather than link to a site that defines SVG, I could link to the Google search define:SVG. ...

Why Linux does not need defragmenting (via Google Operating System’s article on fast disk defragmenters.)

Here are words from the middle of 10 songs from 1980-1990. They are all dappanguthus -- or at least, fast songs. Can you guess which movie they are from? Note: I've made this quiz a little tougher than the earlier ones. Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments ashwini 3 Nov 2006 10:10 am: Ok deen 16 Nov 2006 10:03 pm: 4th munthanai mudichchu 7th alaikal oiwathillai p.kannan 8 Jan 2007 4:17 am: its a nice one bobby 3 Feb 2007 12:07 pm: hey its too good stivane 30 Mar 2007 11:34 am: alwayes old is gold usha 9 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Interesting sree 14 Mar 2010 9:32 am: what is the 2nd song….. mpganesh 11 Mar 2011 4:25 pm: i scored 9/10; what is the 5th song? Shobhana 20 May 2012 5:44 am: Got everything except the second one.. any clue for the second one?

Solve several TV and film quizzes in Excel. More at Yahoo’s online quizzes. Comments shanthi 24 Sep 2010 2:51 pm: Extremly brilliant! we stay in jakarta and I usually host all diwali and new year parties..i always conduct film quizzez audio video round..now its easy for me to get information from this site…thanks its very interesting also..

Here are words from the middle of 10 songs from 1985-1989. Can you guess which movie they are from? (Films are NOT repeated) Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Anonymous 15 Sep 2006 4:50 pm: help out wth 2 and 7 pl S Anand 15 Sep 2006 5:44 pm: 2: Sathyaraj film. 7: Superstar film Anonymous 19 Sep 2006 7:56 am: 2nd found out 7th cant guess at all,any more clues ?????? S Anand 19 Sep 2006 9:42 am: 7: Actress is Radha. sutha 23 Sep 2006 8:31 am: is it kathiks movie number 9? S Anand 23 Sep 2006 6:25 pm: No, 9 is Ramarajan. Bosky 5 Oct 2006 2:25 pm: got all these in less than 6 minutes K.Shyam 12 Oct 2006 8:14 pm: 10/10 valli 14 Oct 2006 7:47 pm: good time pass. thanks. deen 16 Nov 2006 10:16 pm: 9th specialised with a cuntry dance 10th kamal double faced …..? sathish 6 Dec 2006 8:57 pm: Got all 10.. Good job anand..Post more quizzes like this suriya 16 Mar 2009 3:27 am: help me with 2,8 plz. suryaaa 23 Jun 2009 5:37 am: pathukku pathu…in less than 15 seconds…im soooo happy… sharanya 19 Jan 2010 9:57 am: 3.Mv song i know but i can’t pls hlp me. balaji 25 Nov 2010 12:05 pm: very interesting… post more quizzes like this Shobhana 17 Oct 2011 12:42 pm: 10/10!!!! Anamika 11 Feb 2012 2:46 pm: Sangeetham paatila nee pesum pechila ? Shobhana 20 May 2012 4:42 am: Got 9/10… cant get the 8th one though.. das 17 Aug 2011 5:30 am: yehe 9/10 Siva G 25 Sep 2012 8:43 pm: Got 10/10… but the 2nd one is very tough…Really very interesting

Here are words from the middle of 10 songs from 1990-1994. Can you guess which movie they are from? (Films are NOT repeated) Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Anonymous 19 Sep 2006 7:58 am: 1,4 and 5 please!clue. S Anand 19 Sep 2006 9:41 am: Heroes for 1, 4, 5 are Murali, Prabhu and Karthik. Anonymous 27 Sep 2006 5:34 pm: 4 abd 5 no guesses works out.any other clues? S Anand 27 Sep 2006 7:26 pm: 4: Bhanupriya. 5: Revathi. K.Shyam 12 Oct 2006 8:15 pm: 10/10 SANDHYA 1 Dec 2006 4:49 am: cant trace 3,4,5 Anonymous 1 Dec 2006 4:49 am: valuable clues pls gopinath 1 Dec 2006 6:21 am: 3,4,5 azar 2 Dec 2006 7:03 am: intresting Sathish 6 Dec 2006 9:04 pm: Got all 10 Jayadevi sabarigirish 19 Jan 2007 4:34 pm: could not find 3, 5.. we had a nice time doing this!! Ravi 5 Mar 2007 11:52 am: i know 4th one (oru kathal thevathai boomiyil vanthal) i forgot the film name……….Nice Ballamurugan_Laxmi 8 Mar 2007 3:28 am: ulla azhuguraen veliya sirikkiraen nalla vaeshandhaan veluththu vaanguraen feelgood 14 Mar 2007 2:53 pm: mmm good one Ramya 6 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Got a ten on ten for this one too … kagithan 1 Jan 2011 3:00 pm: 10/10 nirmala 18 Dec 2010 7:51 pm: couldnt find 1 5 n 7 help pls priya 29 Sep 2011 3:29 pm: 8/10.. good.. interesting… Shobhana 20 May 2012 5:04 am: 10/10… :)

Google news archive search lets you search news over the last 200 years. Along with Google Print and Google Scholar, this is a great research tool for printed material.

Here are words from the middle of 10 songs from 1995-1999. Can you guess which movie they are from? (Films are NOT repeated) Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Swaroopa 6 Sep 2006 12:24 pm: Cool selections!! can I have all the answers S Anand 6 Sep 2006 3:56 pm: I’d rather not post the answers here. Have mailed them to you. Anonymous 28 Sep 2006 10:46 am: Hi nice work Anonymous 3 Oct 2006 5:14 pm: 7 and 8 pl.cnt guess S Anand 3 Oct 2006 6:32 pm: 7 and 8 are both Ajit films. V Gopinath 1 Dec 2006 7:03 am: 10/10 venky 28 Feb 2007 6:22 am: Thats real cool da….i got except the 7th one give me some clue Shathish 7 Mar 2007 8:49 am: Very nice and easy selections.Good Seetha 3 May 2007 6:11 am: cool one :) Seetha 3 May 2007 6:16 am: I was able to make 10 :) divya 8 May 2007 6:32 am: any clue for the 2nd song pls Seetha 5 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Cool..damn easy!! sundar 5 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: done 10/10 Pillaikani 12 Jan 2010 4:34 pm: DONE I’VE DONE IT!!!!!!! 10/10 Nangalum Vaanguvomla!!!!!!!!!!!! Eppudi!!!! balaji 26 Nov 2010 12:02 pm: appu risk edukkardhu engalukku rusk sapidara madhiri.. eppoooodi ha ha Suganya 30 May 2012 7:42 am: Could not find 9… :( Anamika 12 Feb 2012 10:42 am: Indha thaamarai poo theeyil indru kaathirukku ullam nondhu kangal ennum poon thean thumbi paadi chellaadho…! Shobhana 20 May 2012 5:02 am: 10/10 !!! Yay!!!! Ugendran 22 Sep 2012 11:09 am: I got 9/10, but i cn’t find 2nd Vijay 12 Feb 2018 9:43 am: Hi could you mail me the answers please - its a great quiz

10 great uses for Google Desktop. The only one I didn’t know about before was the “Control Panel replacement”. You can use Google Desktop to launch control panel items.

Digital photography how-to. Comments Dhar 8 Sep 2006 6:09 am: In addition to the link you have given, do check out Photonhead for tips, tricks and tutorials on Digital Photography. Incidentally, I have recently started shooting again and a few of the shots I have taken are available here.

Here are words from the middle of 10 songs from the 2000s. Can you guess which movie they are from? (Films are NOT repeated) Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments saranya 19 Sep 2006 9:08 am: its simply superb S Anand 19 Sep 2006 9:44 am: Thanks, Saranya! Anonymous 20 Sep 2006 8:22 am: can u give me the answers ANAND pls saranya 20 Sep 2006 8:23 am: can u give me the answers ANAND pls S Anand 20 Sep 2006 8:45 am: I’ve e-mailed them. S Anand 20 Sep 2006 8:48 am: Looks like the mail bounced. You can mail me at root dot node at gmail dot com, and I’ll reply with the answers. I don’t plan to post the answers on my site :-) PAPPU 1 Oct 2006 6:40 pm: HI ITS GOOD arumugam 3 Oct 2006 1:07 pm: very nice Anonymous 3 Oct 2006 5:20 pm: anjavadhu mattum paduthudhu.udhavungal anand S Anand 3 Oct 2006 6:35 pm: 5th: More lyrics. idhu nanavaay thonRum kanavu idhu kaalaiyil thonRum nilavu idhu kaNNai kaNNai pariththu veLichcham tharum iravu Swapnaa 12 Oct 2006 1:31 pm: Its crazy how my brain gets fixed on one song once I get it, and plugs in all the other lyrics into that same tune! If many people managed to solve this, it looks like I’ve got some serious cross-modal attentional issues! dheepthi 12 Oct 2006 6:14 pm: wats da 5th 1 S Anand 12 Oct 2006 8:11 pm: Hi Swapnaa, a few have managed 10/10, most settle at 9/10 or 8/10 S Anand 12 Oct 2006 8:12 pm: Dheepthi, here’s another hint for the 5th: the movie was produced by Prakash Raj vijayachakravarthy 19 Oct 2006 2:58 am: Its cool i found all except this - kEtkaadha osaigaL idhazh thaandaadha vaarththaigaL Ranganathan 25 Oct 2006 11:36 am: Hi Anand… Ranga here… Tried this one too… 10/10 Thanks for the Quiz… suresh 28 Oct 2006 6:43 am: hey guys its cool.. after seeing the comments i logged into it.. you are cool guys(deepthi, anand and ranga) Senthil 14 Nov 2006 7:19 am: It’s Good deen 16 Nov 2006 10:41 pm: azhahu enpathu aanpal Anonymous 21 Nov 2006 11:49 am: Hi..this one’s cool…i got 10/10… sugee 1 Dec 2006 3:18 pm: ts gud suresh 2 Dec 2006 4:19 pm: its very nice……. ossime da. keep going and give us more fun and enjoyment worthy vinodh 12 Dec 2006 11:16 am: its nice…. 10/10 Srinivasan.T.K. 16 Dec 2006 5:45 pm: Great one man. Keep changing questions. mangai 22 Dec 2006 4:12 am: good sabari 22 Dec 2006 7:18 am: it is nice anitha 22 Dec 2006 10:21 am: It’s nice kani 24 Dec 2006 6:38 pm: answers pls. Revathy 29 Dec 2006 3:00 pm: its good s&s 15 Jan 2007 9:16 pm: it’s fantastic. muhunthan 8 Feb 2007 5:13 am: i like this very much plz make more quizes Divya Umapathy 2 Mar 2007 6:22 am: This is really cool balaji 2 Mar 2007 10:53 am: entertaining ravi 5 Mar 2007 12:08 pm: 8 mattum udaikkuthu ———-super O superb Shathish 7 Mar 2007 8:42 am: superb superb superb shathish 7 Mar 2007 8:44 am: romba nalla irukuinga .Aanal “Nilalgalin ullae nijangalai thedinen…… Enna Adhu song.. Naanum thedinen onnum kidaikalai feel good 14 Mar 2007 3:05 pm: alaikadalaai…irundha manam…panithuliyaai sidhariyadhey…aimbulanum en manamum enakedhiriaai seyalpadudhey…oru pennin ninaivenna seyyum oru kathi illamal koyyum…idhil meela vazhi ulladhey…iruppinum ullam virumbaadho oh yeh…. vizhigalin aruginil vaanam vegu tholaivnil tholaivinil thookam….en aindhu pulangalin ekkam..en mudhal mudhal anubavaum oh yeh…. oliyindri udhadugal pesum..perum puyal ena veli varum swaasam. sneha 1 Apr 2007 10:24 am: Its great oppurtunity priyasakhi 8 May 2007 3:35 pm: tanglish therinja people tamizh paalagavum uthavuthu. thz! hi friends…… ungalukku kavithaigalil interest irunthal….. now visit www.kavimozhiz.blogspot.com enodu msn le thodarpu kondu….. neege unga kavithaigalukku ujir kuudugalam. Valentino 1 Jun 2007 7:52 am: well try Padhu 1 Jun 2007 8:05 am: Good effort… still the 80’s songs with wonderful lyrics can be used to make it more challanging Sundaram 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: i need Jalsa panungada song Lyrics in Tamil From the movie Chennai 600028. Thank you. sahi 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Adi vangadha paaraigal sirpangal aagadhu tholviku anjadhu munerada- can someone tell in which song this lyrics is? Bharathi 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Its very nice…. could not guess the 5th one alone… jenifer rosy 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: the game is nice Anonymous 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: good…but..couldn get 5th song!!! alice 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: good…but..couldn get 5th song!!! Ramya 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Wow ! I got a ten on ten !! vasanth 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: awesome creation jayashree 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: gdfhcfgj Dhinakar 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Pls tell me answers shan 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: nice one vinod 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: waste……….put the lyrics of tamil songs in tamil words JamunaRani 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Hi, Adi Vaangath Paaraigal Sirpangal Aagathu is from the movie Azhagiya theeye song (Ullalae Ullalae song sung by devan (first song) praveen 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: very interesting, helps us improve our thinking skills vinoth 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: hi anand are u from iitk Harish 1 Jan 2009 11:07 am: Dear Mr.ananth Self Answered 7/10 Ques , any price for me Plz mail me answers for un answered ones. Senthilkumar.S 24 Mar 2009 7:34 am: got 7/10.. suriya 17 Mar 2009 3:13 am: Nice … got 10/10 priya 15 May 2009 9:30 am: superb mickey 25 May 2009 11:34 am: its really interesting and it makes me know how much i have knowledge about it.It rocks farzana 20 May 2009 11:58 am: good but cant find “nilalgalin ullae ulla…” dhan hak sak 17 Jun 2009 12:36 pm: Super appu, Got 10/10 naveen 15 Mar 2010 2:00 pm: very nice Pillaikani 13 Jan 2010 5:59 am: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Pillaikani 13 Jan 2010 6:00 am: got 10/10 Archana 1 Mar 2010 4:39 pm: Hey i got 10/10 E. Ramya 29 Apr 2010 6:13 pm: i got 10/10……… Velzzz 14 Aug 2010 10:20 am: Got 10/10 :) RAJ V 29 Mar 2010 1:17 pm: got 10/10.. rami 4 Nov 2010 9:05 am: Got 10/10 balaji 25 Nov 2010 12:16 pm: nandri soola unakku vartahi illa enakku…. Perumalsamy.j 9 Nov 2010 2:30 pm: Is there any song sung by Ilayaraja in A.R.Rahman’s music MICHAEL JACKSON 27 Dec 2010 7:31 am: scored just 6…… interesting…….. padma 16 Feb 2011 9:57 am: i got 8/10 in 200 quiz super give some other quiz karthika 22 Feb 2011 10:59 am: got 10/10 wohhhh Sarvetha 31 Jul 2011 7:54 am: Very Very Very Very Very Very superb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sharmila banu 2 Aug 2011 12:07 pm: nice …… Lalitha 13 Sep 2011 8:37 am: I got 6 Suresh 21 Jul 2011 7:40 pm: innum ungakittey irunthu neraya yethirpakkrom:got 10/10 Ranjani 7 Aug 2011 12:34 pm: I ve completed 8/10 vasanth 20 Nov 2011 3:24 pm: hi its nice . i wnt to know the score muthu 18 Apr 2012 6:02 pm: Very nice blog..I loved this… 7/10 by my own and 10/10 thru google Anamika 12 Feb 2012 10:52 am: Mannagam marandhu vittaen enai maatrungal pazhaiyabadi…! Shobhana 20 May 2012 4:39 am: i got all 10 !!! :) priya 29 Sep 2011 2:36 pm: very nice… :) .. got 10/10 :) Sathya 8 Mar 2012 9:11 am: nice collection i got 9/10. Ugendran 22 Sep 2012 10:47 am: yeah really nice….I got 8/10 diamond 30 Dec 2012 7:40 am: it is very niceeeeee…. krithika 1 Jul 2015 10:31 am: I lost the game Suriya muthusamy 15 Jul 2020 12:09 pm: Got 10/10 SINDHUJA K 1 May 2019 3:25 pm: Nice

Sometimes you want to check the colour of a cell, or whether a cell is bold. This can be easily done with user-defined functions (UDFs). (To create a UDF, press Alt-F11, Alt-I-M, and type the code below.) You can use ISBOLD(cell) to check if a cell is bold, and BGCOLOR(cell) to get the background colour of the cell. This lets you selectively process bold or shaded cells. The two examples below show how you can add only the cells in bold, or only the shaded cells. ...

Excel lets you create your own functions. If you wanted to create a function that returned the distance between two points (x1,y1) and (x2,y2), you can create a function DIST that takes these 4 parameters, and use it as shown below. To create such a function, press Alt-F11 to open the Visual Basic Editor insert a new module (Alt-I-M) type the following code: ...

A gentle introduction to NURBS. That’s Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines, or, “how to draw a curve on a computer”. Comments Dana Qi 1 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Clear and brief for non-mathmatics student. Excellent job.

I’ve seen many proofs that 1=2. Here’s a classic. The (not-so-subtle) error in the above proof is that we’re cancelling (a-b) on both sides, when (a-b) equals zero. That is, we’re dividing by zero on both sides. That completely invalidates the equality. Another proof uses the fact that the square root of a number can be both positive or negative. ...

A recorded message for telemarketers. Whenever one of them calls, this guy transfers them to an extension with a recorded voice that’s “very interested in your offer”.

Great essays by Dan Norman on design Paul Graham on life and programming Edward Tufte on visualisation