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Benford’s Law: how to spot fake data.

Top lists for 2005 – books, movies, etc.

Tech books for free from O’Reilly. Speaking of which, it looks like you can read whole books on Google Print.

Microsoft’s IT department has used the Theory of Constraints in software development. Comments Suresh 17 May 2006 5:39 am: Interesting and informative

Will Google Calendar go live today?

Dogs laugh.

Human memory capacity is about filters, not storage.

10 places you must use Ajax.

Trend sweet trend shows recent trends in del.icio.us bookmarks.

Firefox 1.5’s canvas tag used to create games. A first-player shooter type with textures. Impressive. (You need Firefox 1.5 to view this). Comments sLaSh 4 Dec 2005 2:28 pm: http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video/Science/Physics/Fits-of-Reflection-and-Transmission/15197

Dr DivX is now open source. You may prefer it to Virtual Dub.

How to survive worst case scenarios, like a riot, plane crash or car without brakes. Also includes an alien abduction scenario. Comments Rajiv 5 Dec 2005 7:50 pm: Are you still at BCG? S Anand 5 Dec 2005 9:08 pm: Infosys Consulting right now.

Who’s afraid of Google? Everyone

HTML keyboard shortcuts using the “accesskey” attribute.

The Blind Search Engine Test. My vote turned out to be for Google.

Capturing movies on the fly. Comments Sumit Dhar 30 Nov 2005 1:28 am: SnapZ is a Mac only application? For Windows, I use VirtualDub. Not very intuitive or easy to use, but does the job. S Anand 30 Nov 2005 11:07 am: So do I! It’s pretty effective. I do my video compression on VirtualDub as well.

Coloured soap bubbles.

IMDb Torrent linker – a GreaseMonkey script that shows torrents available when you browse the IMDb.

Why we love rounded corners.

Some interesting ads on Google video: FotoPrix: perfect pictures for an imperfect world. Nike ad in Lisbon. Honda car assembly (a classic). Google Video also has Google Current, which is a newsreel about Google’s top searches. But the find was a 5-hour Google factory tour. Comments ritzkini 23 Nov 2005 9:07 am: Thanks for your interest in Google Video.Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn’t available in your country.We hope to make this feature available more widely in the future, and we really appreciate your patience. S Anand 23 Nov 2005 7:25 pm: That is truly a pity. Wonder if any of the proxys will take care of it…