Gil's LotD

11/24/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome A new service provided by Amazon where users can do small tasks unable to be done by computers for small amounts of cash for companies.

11/4/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/electro/railgun/railgun.htmlMake a simple railgun.

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.

5/10/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.radaronline.com/features/2007/05/taryn_simon_index_of_the_hidden_and_unfamiliar_1.php Pictures from a book about rooms with restricted access.
http://www.spatulaofdeath.com/ An Internet antisocial network.
http://www.harbrew.com/limoncello.htm Limoncello!

4/5/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~marekm/projects/beatbots/ An incredible video of a little robot who is designed to dance to communicate with humans. Be sure to see the video of the robot dancing to Spoon.
http://univ.nict.go.jp/people/xkozima/infanoid/robot-eng.html#keepon More information about Keepon!
http://safety.mania.ru/index.htm Airline safety pamphlets in Russian!

11/2/05 Gil's link of the day
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4190645635814544453&q=matrix+dance A cool video of all kinds of tricks done in a gym.
Be sure to see this one all the way though, there are bloopers at the end as well as a scene where about 5 guys run up a wall together.

10/29/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://www.commoncensus.org/ A nifty project to create maps of the US in terms of spheres of cultural influence.

10/28/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/cameratoss/interesting/ A Flickr pool of pictures taken with long exposure times and tossed into the air.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.pandora.com/ Give Pandora one of your favorite songs and it will create a playlist for you of similar songs by different artists. A very cool way to learn about new artists.

10/23/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://www.rock-on-rock-on.com/ Bill Dan is an artist who creates sculptures by balancing rocks on top of each other.

10/12/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://users.skynet.be/fotoopa/highspeed_frame_set.htm A hobby website about high-speed photography.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.kerowack.com/media/DirtyBumf.mov Video of roller skaters set to techno. Warning! 10 mb movie, but it's pretty good.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/sssjava/javademo.html Fun ski slope simulation game.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.velocityartanddesign.com/groovetube.html Contemporary art designed to be displayed in a home.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.photo.net/learn/technology/mflash/merl-non-photo.html New camera design that uses multiple flashes to find the edges of objects in the picture, very cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobromine Theobromine is the chemical that poisons dogs in chocolate.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.fishighway.com/ An acrylic, water filled box that can be routed around your house from aquarium to aquarium to give your fish a highway to swim along. Cool pictures.
http://lostfrog.org/ A bunch of photoshops of a child's wanted post. Click on the picture to see the next one. BTW, I saw some of those places in New York when I was out there.