Gil's LotD

11/29/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://www.joystiq.com/2005/11/20/16-nes-ified-covers-of-hit-songs-streamed-to-xbox-360-playing/ All kinds of songs on an 8-bit synthesizer.

11/28/05 Gil's link of the day!
With the end of finals, LOTD is back!
http://ccablog.blogspot.com/2005/11/soviet-topographic-maps.html Old topographical maps made of the world by the USSR.

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.

11/20/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://www.spudtech.com/detail.asp?id=51 A very impressive machined potato gun.

11/18/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://www.troybrophy.com/projects/solarsystem/index.html#venus
The webpage is a scale model of the solar system.

11/15/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/ Both links are about research done at MIT on tinfoil hats.
http://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=200511112730.afdb_effectiveness

11/13/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://www-fi3.starwreck.com/trailer.php A fan-made sci-fi movie.

11/11/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://www.physorg.com/news7947.html Scientists have created bionic muscles that work almost as quickly as biological ones.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.biopresence.com/ Have human DNA incorporated into a living tree that you can grow into a living memorial.

11/7/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://cyborg.namedecoder.com/ Enter your name and have the program generate a robot name for you.
Gil's link of the day: Galactic Infiltration Lifeform, Lifeform Intended for Nocturnal Killing, Organism fabricated for Troubleshooting and Hazardous Exploration, Digital Artifical Youth.

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

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.

11/1/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://ufbir.ifas.ufl.edu/index.htm University of Florida's book of insect records.

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.

10/21/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://www.torontozombiewalk.com/ Home page to the Toronto Zombie Walk where a bunch of people dress like zombies and parade around the streets.

Gil's link of the day!
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2005-10-06-man-made-diamonds_x.htm A news story about a new company that produces perfect man-made diamonds.

10/19/05 Gil's link of the day
http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/lectures/10_ArchimedesResult.html?kari MIT students test Archimedes' solar powered death ray.

Gil's link of the day!
http://members.aol.com/morganbolt/ The Internet guide to shooting rubber bands.

10/16/05 Gil's link of the day!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/sci_nat_visions_of_science_/html/1.stm Electron microscope images.

10/15/07 Gil's link of the day!
http://satobs.org/iridium.html A website that tracks Iridium communications satellites that reflect back down to Earth.

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.