Gil's LotD

http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-image-compression How JPEG images are compressed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Gou_Jian This ancient sword was found in an archaeological dig site in China in nearly perfect condition.

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html Write Perl in Latin!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KazSat_1 Kazakhstan's first satellite.

http://www.pauliesworld.org/swhighdef/ See the difference from regular DVD quality to HD in the original Star Wars trilogy.

http://www.chorewars.com/ Chore Wars is an RPG based around completing household chores.

http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html This guy wrote a nifty program to index, search and display a local copy of Wikipedia.

http://www.precision-gps.org/ Open source software that uses multiple GPS receivers to find the distances between them.

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/ This blog reviews cool and useful tools.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11029793&sc=emaf A reporter tries to confirm the urban legend that cleaning keyboards in a dishwasher is safe. It works for his dishwasher but he shares warnings from manufacturers.

http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/781/slurpr-the-mother-of-all-wardrive-boxes Homemade project to leech from multiple open wireless networks for a faster connection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic Nomic is a game where you play by adding and changing the rules and changing the rules as you go along.

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/drains-of-canada-interview-with-michael.html An interview with a person who explores and photographs underground storm drains.

http://subwayblogger.com/ Blogging about the New York subway and its issues.

http://cmsweb.cern.ch/phedex/prod/Activity::RatePlots?view=global Graphs of the data being transferred around the world from the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.

http://abeautifulwww.com/2007/05/20/visualizing-the-power-struggle-in-wikipedia/ How Wikipedia article data was visualized to show activity.

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/samplecode/ASCIIMoviePlayerSample/Introduction/Intro.html Sample code of a Mac program to render movies as ASCII. http://users.ugent.be/~jmaebe/ASCIIMoviePlayerSample/ Here is a color version.

http://matterhorn1959.blogspot.com/2006/11/sop-saturday-monorails.html The operating manual to an old Disney train.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409# A documentary on the Open Source movement.

http://archive.stsci.edu/hst/getting_started.html How to get access to the data from the Hubble Space Telescope.

5/21/07 Gil's LotD
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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4 Incredible nerdcore rap. Be sure to view this video.
http://specgram.com/CLI.2/08.kawil.rerating.html An article by linguists rating the languages of the world.

http://en.akihabaranews.com/10854/pc/the-usb-2-0-enclosure-for-hard-disks-that-looks-like-a-hard-disk An external drive that looks like an internal drive? ITS A TRAP
http://www.coolhunting.com/food-drink/marmite-guinnes.php Get some Marmite made with Guinness yeast for St. Patty's Day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD90Z_bXaOA Captain Kirk going nuts. Be sure to watch this video.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/01/27/business/20070128_BALLMER_SLIDESHOW_2.html
Steve Ballmer's office?

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/011907-mit-your-take.html?page=1 An interview looking at MIT's network infrastructure.

http://spritesmods.com/?art=inker&page=1 Instructions on building a homebrew device that controls an inkjet cartridge so it can be carried around and print messages anywhere.
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/14/zelda-cartoon-season-1/ The old-school Zelda cartoons on YouTube!

http://missedmanners.wordpress.com/2007/01/12/what-i-did-over-christmas-vacation/ A candy model of the battle of Helms Deep.

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