Links

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

Solve several TV and film quizzes in Excel. More at Yahoo’s online quizzes.

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.

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.

A gentle introduction to NURBS. That’s Non-Uniform Rational B–Splines, or, “how to draw a curve on a computer”.

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

Ev of Blogger argues that pageviews are obsolete. Number of unique visitors and time spent on a site are better measures.

Code search within O’Reilly books.