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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6626464599825291409# A very understandable video introduction to the mathmatical field of topology.

5/20/07 Gil's LotD
http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Classics-Week-Chocolate-Covered-SQL-.aspx The software that designed this packaging had a SQL bug resulting in the query being printed on the package.
http://img218.imageshack.us/my.php?image=goodiewf2.jpg That's right.
http://www.boundarystones.org/ A project to recover and photograph the original boundary stones of Washington, DC.

5/13/07 Gil's LotD
http://www-old.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~morph/Transformer/ An online program that you can use to transform and play with your face.
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=475270221&size=o&dupe A cool magazine ad for a travel company.
http://www.math.harvard.edu/%7Eknill/mathmovies/index.html It's a directory of movies with math mentioned and links to the clips.

5/8/07 Gil's LotD
http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ SAGE, open source math software. Does it go in the email field?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNp7QKugzZE Music video for a remix of Gay Boyfriend by The Hazzards. The original video is in the sidebar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9HaNbsIfp0 A cover of the HD-DVD key.

http://fooplot.com/ A very neat little AJAX app you can use to plot many types of functions quickly.
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Worst_100_Pick-Up_Lines_of_All_Time Uncyclopedia on the worst pick-up lines ever.

4/19/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g1O4LJNs94 Fox News can't do math.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg How to prove the famous seven bridges problem. I love how Wikipedia has a spoiler warning for mathematical proofs.
http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/ This generator combines a random Family Circus image with a random Nietzsche quote.

4/4/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php An explanation of everything up to the 10th dimension.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/djcollinator/sets/72157600000992814/ Photos of a barber who cuts hair with fire.
http://theamazingrolo.blogspot.com/2007/03/wii-loop-machine.html Video of a guy who has written a Mac program that uses the Wii Remote to create music.

http://doxory.com/ Do x or y lets users ask the site a question, and other users can vote on which choice to make.
http://aimath.org/E8/ A page on the mapping of a large Lie group with links to information about what it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa Rumspringa is when the Amish let the teens go and explore life outside of the commune.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menger_sponge Menger sponges for the uninformed.
http://www.theiff.org/oexhibits/menger02.html A Menger sponge made of business cards.
http://www.lswilson.ca/warstories.htm Stories from veterans of DEW Line outposts, Cold War radar stations in the far north of Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_value_theorem The mean value theorem proves that on a curve the average slope of the entire curve is a point on the derivative of that curve. Something like that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nice6NYb_WA A presentation of 3D face modeling software by a researcher.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1777547.htm A news article about recent advances in fair divison, which is quite the cutting edge of math.
http://www.math.hmc.edu/~su/fairdivision/ Fair divison is the branch of mathematics dealing with ways to cut cake so everyone is happy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Postulate The parallel postulate says that if two angles are parallel to each other (or if they interset a 3rd line at the same angle) they will never interset and is part of the proof behind a lot of geometery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmA9yb7_JVI A 1000+ man game of Capture the Flag in Toronto.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZjXqXkJ0_Y&eurl= Leeroy Jenkins in the office. LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROY

http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/20010.5.shtml The secret mathematicians don't want you to know: the formula for calculating any digit of pi.

http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/ This guy put a jet engine in the back of his Beetle. It works.
http://www.arcanegazebo.net/2006/08/measurements_of_gravity_using.html A story about an undergrad in a lab who decides to take a 230 L DeWar flask full of liquid nitrogen down a stairway in a handcar.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828fa_fact2 A really good story from The New Yorker about the man who solved the Poincaré conjecture.

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http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=313 Tips on using the repair command on the Windows XP install disk to fix a broken install.
http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2006/05/laughing_yogi.mpeg Laughing is good for you!
http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/mmmusic.html Proofs set to music.
http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/mmset.html#trivia Information about the proof for 2+2=4 using the basic axioms of mathematics.

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After much ado about nothing, Gil's link of the day is back. Making up for the absence is 12 links.
http://www.smokintire.com/product.htm#Candles Candles that smell like burning rubber. For the NASCAR fan in all of us
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-images.html Pictures of the Sun in different spectra
http://fourmilab.ch/earthview/satellite.html See the earth from various Earth-orbiting satellites
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005400426,00.html the best gags from the Fringe Festival of Comedy in Edinburgh
http://ned.ucam.org/~sdh31/internet/owe.html This website serves as a calculator for the value of your stolen music
http://www.nothingisreal.com/girlfriend/ There are, statistically, 18 726 women out there that would date you

http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/ A whole bunch of games for the brain
http://www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine/ How much caffeine would it take to kill you?
http://www.powerandmotoryacht.com/megayachts/0805top100/index1.html Top 100 biggest yachts in the world
http://www.troyis.com/troyis.php A chess like game that uses the movement of a knight to reach certain points

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http://www.planarity.net/ A game that has you move interconnected points so that none of their vertices cross

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http://www.sudoku.com/ Sudoku- this is going to be big
The people who host Gil's link of the day had a lot of email newsletters to send over the weekend. If Gil's link of the day doesn't come at 5:00 as it is supposed to, don't worry. The newsletter will be sent as soon as the other ones are done.

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http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/gallery.html IBM merges art and math in this website. Very cool, but I don't fully understand it

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v391/XR1stang/pi-pie.jpg the Pi Pie

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http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/classes/sp05/cse130/misc/Prolog/goat_etc.html using Prolog to solve problems
http://www.aooa.co.uk/THE%20PHONE.swf Creepy

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http://www.cs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/pics/origami/penultimate/rhombicosidodecahedron.html It's a rhombicosidodecahedron, a shape with 20 triangular faces, 12 pentagonal faces and 30 square faces
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22019 Whoops, too late, no money for you. An expired offer to settle with Creative Labs

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It's π day!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi
http://www.themoens.com/Photos/Events/snowSculpture/y2005/main.htm Amazing snow sculptures
http://adn.com/news/alaska/story/6243389p-6120333c.html Remember this guy on Gil's link of the day? His tower is still going!

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Now that I'm looking at the archives, it seems that I forgot to send out yesterday's link of the day. In a little bit I'll make up for that one.
http://richfiles.solarbotics.net/Turbo.html hacking Texas Instruments calculators