Gil's LotD

http://blog.useost.com/2012/12/30/valett/ Rethinking the Scrabble point distribution.

http://scriptunasimages.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/inside-nasas-rubber-room/ NASA built a shock-proof rubber room underneath each launch platform.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mvtLk4i6TmY It's a machine that sorts Skittles.

http://blog.backblaze.com/2012/10/09/backblaze_drive_farming/ The story of how one company dealt with a worldwide hard drive shortage.

http://fd-imaging.com/the-worlds-tiniest-tiff-image/ This TIFF actually displays itself as a black and white bitmap.

http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55 The story of GO.COM, a commercially successful program with no instructions.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/earliest-known-photos-apple-ipad-prototype?page=0%2C1 Here are some pictures of the earliest iPad prototypes.

http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat There will be a leap second on June 30.

https://github.com/mirrors/perl/blob/book/perlsecret/pod/perlsecret.pod Perl's list of secret operators.

http://www.ibiblio.org/oswg/oswg-nightly/oswg/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/alan-cox/mac/mac.html Alan Cox on porting Linux to 68k Macintoshes.

http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ A comprehensive collection of criticisms of the PHP language and its standard library.

http://www.therwp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48139 There's a hidden ZX Spectrum emulator in the GoldenEye 64 release carts.

http://time.is/ Find out the accuracy of your computer clock.

http://byuu.org/articles/emulation/snes-coprocessors All of the coprocessors released with SNES games have been reverse engineered.

http://www.holmea.demon.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm http://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/navsats/theory.html Two articles on creating a homemade GPS receiver.