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http://www.instructables.com/id/Vacuum-Cannon_1/ Instructions on how to make a vacuum cleaner into a cannon.
http://www.primitiveways.com/fire_from_ice.html Starting fire with a lens made of ice.

http://spinraccoonaround.ytmnd.com/ Gil's LotD is back.
http://www.sonnyradio.com/brainwave.htm An optical illusion.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/pharmaceuticals/index.html Pictures of common drugs that have been dissolved and made to grow into crystals and then photographed.
http://www.siliconera.com/2006/05/27/beggar-prince-a-new-sega-genesis-game/ The homebrew community made a new Sega Genesis game for the system.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4134446112378047444# This is Bill Gates talking about a demo of the next version of Windows, called Vista, only the screen has been replaced with MacOS X to show that the competition already has all of the features.
http://docs.lucidinteractive.ca/index.php/Cracking_WEP_and_WPA_Wireless_Networks A guide to cracking the passwords on WEP and WPA encrypted wireless networks.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9198 Apparently pigeons may think in logarithms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvQTTPr9Rw An interesting virtual desktop program which uses the motion sensor in new Mac laptops to switch between the virtual desktops.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-05/20/content_595970.htm A student made a 100 page resume.
http://cow.neondragon.net/stuff/reflection/ A javascript library to simulate reflections in water.

http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24518 Photos of the worst amusement park ever.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php GParted is a frontend to libparted which can be used to repartition and increase/decrease partition sizes in tons of different filesystems, and also has a LiveCD for download.
http://www.z360.com/full/ Cool panoramas from around the world.

http://leekspin.com/ Leekspin, with an addicting song.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loituma Wikipedia page about the band who performs the Leekspin song.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000003TI1/102-5096819-0300151?v=glance&n=5174 Buy Loituma's album on Amazon!

http://insentricity.com/?postid=57 Make a scrolling LCD that will connect with your computer.
http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/ An opensource program that will control an external LCD.
http://dearcomputer.nl/gir/ This webpage lets you view all the pictures from a google image search together.

http://itreviews.blogspot.com/2006/05/linuxs-boot-process-explained.html An explanation of the linux boot process.
http://sandhogproject.com/whatis/whatis.htmlA page about the sandhogs, miners who work deep underneat Manhattan.
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/Oct05.5Flaws.html Five architectural flaws in Windows solved in MacOS X.

http://www.afterapple.com/adam-knight/blog/2006/05/applecared-my-life-inside-apple-and-applecare A blog post of a guy's reflections about working in Apple's support division.

http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/ Freeware planetarium software!
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/613/1 The real story behind NASA's special space pen, be sure to read this. It turns out NASA did not spend millions of dollars to design a pen that would work in space.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-162891478515007486# A bike travelling 100 mph down a mountain breaks.
http://www.yarukinoki.net/flash/pendulumeca/ Crazy game, click and hold on dark bars at top of screen to swing your robot.

http://pixelfonts.style-force.net/ Free pixel fonts.
http://www.williams.edu/biology/explodingflower/movies.html Videos of dogwood flowers springing open and shooting their pollen into the air in slow motion.
http://www.greatervancouverparks.com/HARRISONSandCastles01.html Giant sand castles!

http://www.damninteresting.com/eyewitnesses-to-hiroshima-and-nagasaki Eyewitnesses to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
http://www.hemmy.net/2006/05/02/space-cube-smallest-pc/ The world's smallest PC, about 2 inches cubed, and has USB, Ethernet, and VGA. I think it's very cool.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/04/poweriser_alter.php Video clips of a new type of pogo stick like thing which you strap to your foot and sort of walk/bounce with. Check the links to the videos about half of the way through the article.

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