Gil's LotD

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/ The Optimus keyboard has a tiny screen for each key that you can customize.
http://www.kottke.org/plus/50-ways-ipod/ A bunch of neat hacks for the iPod.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/ The Linux Distribution Chooser.
http://www.local6.com/news/5784303/detail.html A news story about an Elmo toy that shipped with a "Time to Die" recording.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/04/bios_from_a_to_z/ A introduction to the workings of a computer's BIOS.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9097187060270501423 A homemade dance video to Daft Punk's Technologic.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.autothing.com/funthings/Tech%20Reviews/Cell%20Phone%20Jammer%20Review.htm Reviews of cell phone jamming hardware.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=25&pos=21 A picture of the space shuttle breaking the sound barrier.

Gil's link of the day!
http://gadgets.fosfor.se/the-top-10-weirdest-case-mods/ A gallery of interesting computer case modifications.

12/13/05 Gil's LotD!
http://www.panodrom.de/Extrem/bottle.html Cool German interactive VR pictures.

12/12/05 Gil's LotD!
http://science.howstuffworks.com/death-star.htm The Death Star explained on a technical level.

12/10/05 Gil's LotD!
http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9i3/kansas.html From the Annals of Improbable Reseach: A study showing Kansas is flatter then a pancake.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.todaytranslations.com/index.asp-Q-Page-E-Language-Usage-on-the-Internet--99144709 An attempt to measure the language usage on the Internet.

12/7/05 Gil's LotD!
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article09-127 A list of things that you never see computers doing in the movies.

5/21/07 Gil's Link of the Day!
After today I'm going back to 2 links per email for the summer.
http://www.bibliobuffet.com/bb/content/view/186/195/ Bacon bookmarks.
http://www.progressquest.com/ Progress Quest: sit back and let the RPG play itself.
http://www.hactrn.net/sra/vaxen.html A very good short story about a VAX machine in a data center full of unfamiliar operators.

5/18/07 Gil's LotD!
http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net/ Read and edit Wikipedia as a filesystem! For Linux, of course.
http://www.psstpassiton.com/ Different teams work on designing and creating the same film in separate steps.
http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/subway/ Subways all drawn to the same scale, very cool.

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.

5/4/07 Gil's LotD!
http://graphserver.sourceforge.net/ Software that when given a map of paths will find a route for you!
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/usgrid/ More map stuffs: Census data about density, race, and other population characteristics.
http://www.kiplinger.com/features/archives/2006/11/jobinterview.html Things not to say at a job interview. Also never go into the back room.

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.

http://leoricksimon.blogspot.com/2006/04/telephone-fm-transmitter.html Instructions on how to make a device that will listen in on a phone line and transmit it over FM radio.
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/6384/top_azureus_plugins_revealed/ Very handy plugins for Azereus, a BitTorrent client.
http://improveverywhere.com/2006/04/23/best-buy/ This page is about a bunch of people who dressed like Best Buy employees and infiltrated a store.
http://www.elephantstaircase.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page A wiki all about homebrew projects.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2139555376132383479# A live version of Super Mario Bros.
http://www.archibase.net/archinews/7129.html Photos from inside a decomissioned Soviet nuclear submarine base.
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/hammerhead-the-lego-cd-thrower A Lego device to throw CDs.
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/04/logitech_quickcam_orbit_m.html This is a video of a new webcam which will recognize your face and then in real time apply pictures to it. You have to see this video

http://www.tankchair.com/default.htm The TankChair: a wheelchair with treads.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/automatt/sets/72057594091674928 Cool pictures of New York.
http://www.acnc.com/04_00.html An introduction to RAID.

http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html? Random insults from Shakespeare, you rotten orange!
http://www.therawfeed.com/2006/04/nyc-manholes-turned-into-coffee-for.html An artist was hired to paint over manholes in NYC to make them look like coffee cups for an ad campaign.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3890877256697646670#The band Ok Go made a homemade music video in a backyard for one of their own songs.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-572077907195969915# The famous argument sketch by Monty Python.
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-home-gadgets Strange home gadgets.
http://wigflip.com/saywhat/ This website will let you place speech bubbles on photos.
http://www.productdose.com/article.php?article_id=1246 An exhibit of art inspired by 8 bit consoles.

http://davidweiss.blogspot.com/2006/04/tour-of-microsofts-mac-lab.html A tour of the tons and tons of hardware at Microsoft's Mac testing lab.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5351101160052590481# A Star Wars parody about stormtroopers in the style of COPS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RjN62LisRE Domo-Kun of Bel-Air. This video is a must see.
http://chosaq.net/archives/2006/04/circumvent-pdf-drm-with-gmail.html Tips on breaking the DRM in some PDFs.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4.html Tips on ripping a DVD to MPEG-4.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=666054889018405108# Kings of Convenience - Failure
http://www.almostsmart.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15297 A graph of how much Google's been increasing its Gmail account space each day.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185301251 Apparently, there's a rebuild command on the XP install disk which lets XP patch itself.
http://www.oglethorpe.edu/about_us/crypt_of_civilization/most_wanted_time_capsules.asp A list of the most wanted time capsules.