Why not to mess with fonts and links, use gratuitous pop-ups, Flash, or IE-only design, etc I'm generally vaguely skeptical of Nielsen's "Alert Box" columns, but this is very focused and to the point, and based on a survey of his readers. Must read for anyone who has or plans to have a web site.

Calculate what time it is in a faraway location

Linux ThinkPad wiki

The classic anti-blowback reference article

Classic essay by Vannevar Bush - shared bookmarks predicted in 1945 Oddly prescient, this essay by the father of the U.S. National Science Foundation is deservedly a classic. He speculates about a yet-to-be-invented machine which he calls a "memex" and describes it in a way which sounds a lot like a personal computer. Missing from the picture, but easy to imagine, is the Internet. But the image of scientists making "trails" of annotations and sharing them with each other is closely matched by ... surfers collecting bookmarks, tagging them using ad hoc tags, and sharing them via the internet. The stuff about the "memex" is only towards the end - skip to section 5 if you find the first pages boring. As is my habit, I have linked to the "printer friendly" version of the article. The authoritative location is . There are also various more or less legitimate copies all over the net. Oh, he misspelled "Hollerith". Sorry, couldn't resist noticing.

Swedish guideline for governmental spam handling Some hideous technical errors, but on the whole a good read, though somewhat tedious (53 pages). PDF must die.

Profile of the perpetrator of SpamArrest ... and, as it turns out, some juicy porn spam

"The browser should use several easy to collect kinds of data to improve the user's ability to get value out of bookmarks."

Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis: With Examples Using R and GGobi