Gil's LotD

12/5/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://www.ul.com/turkeyfryers/fryer.mpg The dangers of deep-fat turkey fryers.

5/28/07 Gil's Link of the Day!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSulycqZH-U Watch John Cage perform live!
http://flickrvision.com/ and Twittervision Both sides use Google Maps to show twitter updates and flickr picture uploads where they occur around the world.

5/27/07 Gil's LotD!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NKiJ8PVGbT0
The trailer for Pirates of the Great Salt Lake.
http://www.jumbojoke.com/the_king_of_speed_844.html
A crazy little anecdote from a pilot of a SR-71.

5/23/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7_wL0ZZi6k A video tour of how camera lenses are made. I love these types of videos.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7038758514398564533 hey, that's fr. o

5/22/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfF9jGD-7E0 A stitched-together music video for a disco cover of the Star Wars soundtrack. It's the best selling instrumental single to this day.
http://www.worldwidewank.com/generator.html Warning, NSFW. A silly masturbation synonym generator.

5/16/07 Gil's Link of the Day!
http://hitotoki.org/ Short stories from Tokyo tagged on a Google map.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_oCZsJbl7A Dog vs baby!
http://springs1.0catch.com/goodbye.html Generate an angry, parting rant!

5/15/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TsRdkrxl4g This guy studied Saturday Night Fever and made this instructional video on how to do the Hustle. Val, take notes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVPfTlpCKaw A neat little music video using typefaces for all of the animation.
http://software.barbariangroup.com/magnetosphere/ Crazy iTunes music visualizer for Mac and Windows.

5/14/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html Blog post about working and reporting to Bill Gates.
http://blog.tomevslin.com/2007/05/microsoft_memor.html Another blog post on the same topic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULlsVcW5bRI Youtube video of a husky and a kitten playing together.

5/13/07 Gil's Link of the Day!
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.

5/12/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2007/05/03/news/cover/iq_13874722.txt A story about exploring the storm sewers under Las Vegas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKy_EGQqUZ4 Video of a concert held to celebrate this indie record label's 100th release.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7797074249768510401&hl=en A short film made entirely out of sand with stop-motion photography. Very cool.

5/11/07 Gil's Link of the Day!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAUXdDO_NgM An interview with Pikachu's voice actor. Be sure to see this video.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_PipeOrgan Know anything about pipe organs? Join in!
http://everybody.who.opposes.me.willbedefeated.com/ Replace the text before .willbedefated.com to have the video talk about your enemy!

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.

5/7/07 Gil's Link of the Day!
http://www.judgeabook.blogspot.com/ A blog all about judging books by their covers.
http://www.dantefilm.com/trailer.html Trailer for a remake of Dante's Inferno using paper dolls. It looks really cool, and if your computer can handle it view the HD trailer. Isn't QuickTime great?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSvJwUFI_es The Pulp Fiction trailer with Muppets edited in to the clip. SFW

5/6/07 Gil's LotD!
http://kip-w.livejournal.com/215011.html The song Little Bunny Fu Fu written as if it were an epic Anglo-Saxon poem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D0770SMqK0 Software using the Wii Remote to simulate strumming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLTLbwT5CKc life at the outpost, eh

5/5/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znRrGfMc700 A scene from a Soviet propaganda film glorifying Stalin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3sUnJVqoO0 Just a cool video made by the same guy who did that "eBaums World Sucks" video.
http://sims.themagical.nl/ Play simulations of actual roller coaster rides.

5/3/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOvq3-oG5BM A preview video of Sumotori Dreams, a tiny and funny game. The link for the download is in the description and be sure to see the video.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=263297 The latest scam in Japan is selling people sheep and calling them poodles?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHi-ZcvFV_0 A parody Facebook infomercial.

5/2/07 Gil's LotD!
http://reverent.org/sounds_like_faulkner.html Guess whether a line of text was translated into English by Babelfish or was written by Faulkner!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHH8Q4xxt2U An alternate ending to The Empire Strikes Back.
http://watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/04/1590-gun-powder-flask-sundial-compass.html A gunpowder flask AND pocket watch.

4/30/07 Gil's LotD!
http://ursulav.deviantart.com/ LOL WUT
http://youtube.com/watch?v=puzFWDPy3i0 A very funny stand up performance. Be sure to see the other videos in the sidebar.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/showmeeuphoria/278635073/in/photostream/ Crazy praying mantis.

4/28/07 Gil's Link of the Day!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RARokyU6rIQ Wow.
http://www.predesign.org/citicorp1.htm A very interesting article about how an engineer realized he made a mistake in the giant skyscraper he made and how he worked to fix it.
http://www.ms-studio.com/articlesarialsid.html How to spot the font Arial, however it has picked a very obvious piece of cover.

4/26/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/a-nations-youth-all-thumbs-with-pcs/2007/04/13/1175971346787.html A story about the extensive use of cellphones with the latest generation in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-u9SzVdVGI A very funny mix of the soundtrack of the 300 trailer with footage from Anchorman. Be sure to watch this video.
http://www.bbspot.com/News/BBloopers/2007/04/2650.php A website typo printed Hustler as for kids ages 5-10.

4/21/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtNjDWRXaKI A Comedy Central skit where a talking deer model is tied to the hood of a car and heckles people outside of a gas station.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions Firefox's list of problematic extensions, especially the ones with memory leaks. If you've got Firefox extensions installed, be sure to check this out.
http://www.baraskit.se/random/archive/8/pancake_2.html An alternative way of making pancakes.

4/20/07 Gil's Link of the Day!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9ujTWfXNJo
The music video for Country Roads by Hermes House band. It's a techno
remix of the John Denver song.
http://kirchersociety.org/blog/2007/01/11/world-freehand-circle-drawing-champion/
Video by the world champion of freehand circle drawing. This man draws a
perfect circle, trippy.
http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda-weehawken_burrito_tunnel.htm
The famous story of the tunnel used to ship burritos from San Francisco to
New York.

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.

4/17/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.glumbert.com/media/supermarket
Supermarket 2.0.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17025280@N00/sets/72157600038845249/detail/
The plagues done with Peeps!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUldGc06S3U
US Real Estate prices, adjusted for inflation, shown as a roller
coaster.

4/16/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.manga-youkai.com/Nyoro~n/ Nyoro~n.
http://www.madin.jp/ouen/index-e.html The 1,024 Cheerleader image generator.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91sqAs-_-g Alanis Morissette's cover of My Humps.

4/14/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFHRAuvjOtQ An IKEA commercial.
http://insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html An old entry about Ping of death from insecure.org's database.
http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/ A fun photoblog.

4/13/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.kilian-nakamura.com/blog-english/index.php/deep-fry-diving-for-goldfish-in-japan/
A video about the latest in fryer technology, a fryer that has a layer of
water.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67389022@N00/
Cool photos from Italy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHYznAb9D9I
Horrible special effects in this clip.

4/10/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLQRv0RjBBM Kermit the Frog's cover of "Hurt."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fredmeyer_edit_1.jpg Photo of a supermarket.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html A very comprehensive reference page for constants.

4/9/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWWKBY7gx_0 Life explained. Be sure to check out this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe1Mr2vewsU
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell-higgs/397812410/ FUCK YUO

4/7/07 Gil's LotD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnudM458uz8 Scenes from the Tonight Show of that old lady who did cooking on the show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys7iaMJLDsU Baby polar bears in German.
http://wmwms.blogspot.com/2007/03/you-have-won-second-prize-in-beauty.html Tips to having a game of Monopoly that does not stretch for hours.