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4/21/05 Gil's LotD

Submitted by Byron on Fri, 04/22/2005 - 12:38am

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http://www.shreddies.org/gmaps/ All the crazy things you can see on Google maps
http://davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm How Science Fiction from the 30's and 40's saw today

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4/20/05 Gil's LotD

Submitted by Byron on Wed, 04/20/2005 - 6:42pm

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http://members.tripod.com/Madtbone/church.htm excuses to get out of attending church
http://geekprom.com/ Oxymoron (noun)- a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect

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4/19/05 Gil's LotD

Submitted by Byron on Wed, 04/20/2005 - 12:29am

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http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/tornado/radar_history.html The history of Radar

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4/18/05 Gil's LotD: Cell phones, 3D graphics, Age, Sonar, Romance novels, Typewriters

Submitted by Byron on Tue, 04/19/2005 - 12:27am

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http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/wireless/samsung-30mile-cordless-phone-036608.php A cordless phone with a 30 mile range. Can you hear me now?$
http://www.renderman.org/ What Pixar uses to render photorealistic images
http://slate.msn.com/id/2114925/?GT1=6208 Memory Champions, I forgot about these guys

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4/12/05 Gil's LotD

Submitted by Byron on Wed, 04/13/2005 - 12:13am

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Gil will be in Chicago for the next couple of days in the national Academic Decathalon tournament, so if you don't get LoTD for a day it should be back the next.
http://www.techfreakz.org/fishmon/ Putting fish behind your screen
http://kernelthread.com/software/ams2hid/ The Apple sudden motion sensor- it detects when your laptop has been dropped or thrown, and uses that to protect your data

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