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7/27/12 Gil's LotD: The tomato

By gil on Wed, 07/25/2012 - 6:00pm

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2118455,00.html?hpt=hp_t2 Scientists have found why store-bought tomatoes don't have as much flavor. Here's a bonus article on the tomato industry in Florida.

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6/27/12 Gil's LotD: Rock paper scissors

By gil on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 6:00pm

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/robot-hand-beats-you-at-rock-paper-scissors-100-of-the-time#.T-oNnmOGhzI.hackernewsScience has created a robot that always wins at rock paper scissors.

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6/16/12 Gil's LotD: GNU toolchain

By gil on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 6:00pm

http://atgreen.github.com/ggx/ A step-by-step guide to adding support to the GNU toolchain for a new architecture.

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6/15/12 Gil's LotD: Leap seconds

By gil on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 6:00pm

http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat There will be a leap second on June 30.

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6/9/12 Gil's LotD: Books about horses

By gil on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 6:00pm

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/carthorsebooks Sometimes a person is really a horse.

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6/4/12 Gil's LotD: Lava cooking

By gil on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 6:00pm

http://www.dolphinbayhilo.com/cook.html A guide to cooking food with lava.

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6/3/12 Gil's LotD: Secret Perl operators

By gil on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 6:00pm

https://github.com/mirrors/perl/blob/book/perlsecret/pod/perlsecret.pod Perl's list of secret operators.

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5/22/12 Gil's LotD: National Moth Week

By gil on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 6:00pm

http://nationalmothweek.org/ July 23rd is the first National Moth Week.

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5/11/12 Gil's LotD: The Debian Administrator's Handbook

By gil on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 6:00pm

http://static.debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/ The Debian Administrator's Handbook is an ebook now available for free on the web.

Yesterday's Gil's LotD was caught by Google's spam filter. If you didn't get an email you can always read it on the website.

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5/10/12 Gil's LotD: Katawa Crash

By gil on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 6:00pm

http://gilslotd.com/files/katawa_crash_beta_8-36.swf Katawa Crash is the spiritual successor to Nanaca Crash. There's a wiki explaining all the combos. My high score is unbeatable.

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