Gil's LotD

http://www.bsbrewing.com/blog/2007/08/makin-bacon/ Instructions on smoking and cooking homemade bacon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTxaVfhAnTc An ocarina made from a carrot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGyoMuE4gDQ How ball bearings are made.

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.

5/4/07 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.

4/24/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.abduzeedo.com/vector-effects Photoshop tutorial on creating vector art to be layered with an image.
http://www.psaudio.com/products/xstream_ultimate.asp A power cable for over $1000. lol wut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chobham_armour A ceramic armor used on tanks to protect against explosives.

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://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/ The Etherkiller's homepage: one end plugs in the wall, the other your Ethernet card.
http://www.innocentive.com/ Innocentive is a site for businesses to offer rewards for solutions and for scientists to search for problems so they can try and find a solution.

This is the last link of 2006. It's been a good year! I probably should throw together some of my favorite links from the year. Anyway, a bit about LotD: right now I'm looking at moving LotD to a proper database driven website, and Drupal seems to be the way to go. If more comes up, I'll send out an update.

Having LotD on an actual website is the logical evolution. This thing started out as a daily link (only one a day!) to a couple of friends on IM. From there it was obvious to go to email which is the system here. Now we have around two years of links, most are not indexed or tagged, and the site is not easily searchable by The Google. My personal archives of LotD often have little more then the URL. A proper website will be more enticing to casual readers and browsers and add search and tagging capabilities, RSS feeds, automated submission and discussion I want for this site. I still want to keep the existing daily email as well.

http://labcam.cet.unomaha.edu/view/view.shtml Watch people watching traffic!
http://tynan.net/the-infamous-ghetto-indoor-pool The stoy of the ghetto pool. This person actually filled a pool inside of his apartment.
http://wiihacks.blogspot.com/2006/12/pulsevu-nintendo-wii-hardware-mod.html A cool hack to add pulsing LED lights to your Wii.

http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/cheat.pdf A cram sheet of algorithms and identities for computer science majors.
http://spluch.blogspot.com/2006/11/japanese-do-it-yourself-cars.html A Japanese company is selling do it yourself car kits.
http://aelinik.free.fr/c/index.html A tutorial to C.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/11/mouse_made_of_stone.html A custom computer mouse made of stone.
http://www.new7wonders.com/index.php Vote on seven new wonders of the world.
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/350/ Really amazing sculptures which are wind powered machine. Be sure to check this out and view the videos.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiWorld_by_Greg_Williams This guy takes articles from Wikipedia and summarizes them in comic form.
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/11/how_to_make_a_dvd_burner.html Got a DVD burner to spare? Instructions on making it into a very powerful laser pointer.
http://www.datenform.de/fpseng.html A set of glasses which sticks a rifle into your field of vision making the world into a FPS.

http://www.studiocreations.com/howto/blasterrifle/main.html How to make a replica blaster rifle like the ones from Star Wars.
http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/commentary/games/2006/11/72071 A news story about a game made about the Left Behind book series.
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/ A blog of strange maps.

http://www.macgeekblog.com/ A blog about MacOS X on regular x86 PCs.
http://yosemiteoutside.com/m/Blogs/02EA4A6B-8893-4F3E-87A8-C1E4B24C3AAB.html Make a solar panel charger for your iPod while backpacking.

http://www.myspace.com/katkonnection A Myspace profile is a LotD? OMGWTFBBQ. Check it out, its a cool local band.
http://www.fishloft.de/aufbau.html Check out the Fishloft. Instructions on how to make a plexiglass tube that goes in a pond and uses atmospheric pressure to keep itself full of the pond water, creating a loft for fishes. This is cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgiUSEpg8Xc Very cool Lego rubber band gun.

Gil's LotD
http://jaxcore.blogspot.com/2006/08/some-moral-dilemmas-following-is-list.html Some famous moral dilemmas.
http://www.crummychurchsigns.com/ Analysis of bad church signs.
http://www.onethirty.org/problem_report.html The all-purpose computer problem report form!

http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/ This guy put a jet engine in the back of his Beetle. It works.
http://www.arcanegazebo.net/2006/08/measurements_of_gravity_using.html A story about an undergrad in a lab who decides to take a 230 L DeWar flask full of liquid nitrogen down a stairway in a handcar.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828fa_fact2 A really good story from The New Yorker about the man who solved the Poincaré conjecture.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/gallery/survival/food/2006/08/make-survival-kit-out-altoids-tin-and-two-more-life-saving-diy-?# A very useful survival kit that fits in an altoids can (but be sure you know how to start a fire if you're going to pack firestarter).
http://www.i-mockery.com/shorts/mitsuwa-marketplace/ A story about a trip to a Japanese grocery called the Mitsuwa Marketplace.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Knex-semi-automatic/ A semi-automatic gun made of and launching Knex pieces.
http://www.bookfaced.com/fb/ The Facebook mapper, which maps your friends' hometowns on a Google map.

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-small-flaming-vortex-of-DOOM!/ Make a vortex of fire and doom.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Q-Tip-Gun/ How to make a Q-Tip gun.
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-5-strangest-military-gadgets The top five strangest military gadgets (the title says it all!).

http://www.instructables.com/id/Flame-Whip/ How to make a flaming whip. My life is complete.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leR1EAdls4Y A demonstration of the proper war to fire off one of those giant rolls of fireworks.
http://chemistry.about.com/od/demonstrationsexperiments/ht/sparkler.htm How to make a sparkler.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/06/make_podcast_rube_goldber.html A Rube Goldberg machine made out of sticks, stones, and twine.
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Internet/ADSL-Bonding-How-To-and-Review.html A howto on bonding DSL lines to make one super DSL line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_problems_solved_by_MacGyver#Impact Wikipedia's page on all the problems solved by MacGyver.
http://www.undergroundmodshop.com/forums/vBulletin/showthread.php?t=3419 It's a giant paintball gun!

Gil's LotD
http://www.wellington.org/nandor/chemwords/chemwords.htm Interesting words formed from chemical formulas.
http://www.madville.com/link.php?id=123683&t=23 How to recover a CRT monitor that has been damaged by magnets.

Gil's LotD
http://www.instructables.com/ex/i/A9D07B9C83FD1028A786001143E7E506/ Do It Yourself! How to build a 1,024,000 mcd portable light!

11/4/05 Gil's LotD
http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/electro/railgun/railgun.htmlMake a simple railgun.