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Blue Oyster Spiral is a video zooming into the Mandelbrot set for two-and-a-half minutes. Hard to believe that it’s just one simple equation. Comments Ki 20 Sep 2006 3:45 am: neat

When you put people together, they tend to learn from each other. For example, we found one hub opening accounts much faster than another. Why? One guy had found this free software that enables auto-completion, and had installed it on his machine. Copying him, everyone else had done the same on their machine. So the hub as a whole was faster. When multiple hubs are put together, they’d all be as fast as the fastest (we hoped). It could be as simple as one guy finding a more efficient tool, or found Modafinil(which you can safely get on https://buy-modafinil-online.org) to help increase focus during working hours. Again, an Excel sheet can give us the estimated increase in productivity. ...

Often, presentations and documents make complex points. It’s useful to convey these as a simple visual. It’s worthwhile to make the effort and do a simple visual for every slide or paragraph. Once, a retail bank asked us if they should centralise their operations. They had operations distributed across branches, regional hubs, and a central hub. After 2 months of work, this was our story: Centralising smoothens demand Centralising improves productivity Your activities are decentralised (so you should consolidate) To do that effectively, you need a few more regional hubs Centralising smoothens demand ...

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I have managed to fill hard disks of all capacities within a few months. My first PC had 10MB of disk space, while I work on 140GB today (remember: that's 14 thousand times more capacity in 14 years). Both were filled within 2 months. (An aside: the number of files / folders hasn't growth by 14,000. The files themselves have grown in size. I have roughly the same number of files/folders today on my machine as I had 14 years ago.) ...

I stopped using Google Analytics when I redesigned my site. I track my own statistics. This gives me access to raw data, and I can do my own analyses. I wanted to know the keywords on Google that led to my site. (Google Analytics only gives you phrases.) I also wanted independent words. If you search for “Calvin and Hobbes”, I want to count only “Calvin”, knowing that it’s in the context of “Hobbes”. ...

Down the memory lane with Hrishikesh Mukherji’s movies via Shruti.

These are stills from Kamal's movies. Each link points to a different movie. I have jumbled the images. You can move the jumbled blocks around, like a jigsaw. Can you guess the movie? Comments Sathya 15 Sep 2006 8:03 am: its not changing colour ;-( S Anand 15 Sep 2006 8:22 am: Well, Sathya, then the answer must be wrong ;-) Nah, unlikely. There must be a spelling variation I had not anticipated. Why don’t you mail me the answer, and I’ll fix it. Thanks! Sathya 15 Sep 2006 9:28 am: movie 5 has a zigsaw tht does not belong to the movie. S Anand 15 Sep 2006 11:18 am: You’re right. Sorry! Fixed it now. Anonymous 15 Sep 2006 4:42 pm: hey tht was nice and very easy.i was able to find out the answers even b4 moving the pics.enjoyable though Ashwin 16 Sep 2006 1:21 pm: Vettayadu Vilayadu is an excellent movie and its doing well in theatres also. Sillunu oru kadhal is not that much good.. Emtan magan is also worth watching, mostly the comedy is good. That’s all about current movie status in Tamil nadu. Ashwin 16 Sep 2006 1:25 pm: I dont’t know much about the old movies, any how i enjoyed playing with the Puzzle. Anand, i will call u later… saranya 20 Sep 2006 9:23 am: anand puzzle three is excellent i got in 5 mins itself its so interesting to play this saranya 20 Sep 2006 2:14 pm: i have solved the 4th puzzle Ram 13 Oct 2006 2:09 am: Can u please tell me the name of the first movie Ram 13 Oct 2006 2:10 am: I have solved 2, 3,4 and 5 but i dont know first…can any one tell me the name of the first movie.I had seen that movie but i cant remember the name of the movie..please help damind 28 Oct 2006 6:33 am: i got four, but i am not satisfied cause i know the answer for the fifth one and its not accepting the right answer ashwini 3 Nov 2006 10:06 am: Second one is varumaiyin niram sivappu only. 4th one not clear at all. subadra 5 Mar 2007 3:18 pm: we solved this too,Anand.we r enjoying it ravi 8 Mar 2007 9:36 am: very good 5one ????????????????? senthil 14 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: i got all 5 answers.. yipeee :-) dhan hak sak 17 Jun 2009 3:16 pm: ha ha ha…. Innum difficult level edhavadhu iruka Renuka 8 Jul 2009 10:40 am: I can see that I’m taking this quiz three years after it was posted - came to know of this website very recently. Awesome! This must be one of the easiest quizzes :-) Or probably the only one! 5/5. Ramki 24 Sep 2009 10:39 pm: Hi Anand, I think I got all 5 right. However, second one which I think is Varumayin Niram Sivappu is not getting highlighted. Am I wrong? TRG 8 Apr 2011 2:15 pm: well set 5/5 retna 2 Feb 2011 2:00 am: finaly i got all answer correct, but the answer for no.2 i think is correct but i don’t know y its not highlighted. can anyone hepl. tq

The 10 Laws of Simplicity.

What would an honest in-flight announcement sound like? Among other things, it would say… Please switch off all mobile phones, since they can interfere with the aircraft’s navigation systems. At least, that’s what you’ve always been told. The real reason to switch them off is because they interfere with mobile networks on the ground, but somehow that doesn’t sound quite so good.

Arrange books by colour. It looks lovely.

I've mentioned the lead pair of famous romantic English movies. How many titles can you guess?

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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). ...

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

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. ...

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

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..