http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McBarge The McBarge was the world's first floating McDonalds!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1pchpDD5EU An electric organ wired into an 8-bit synthesizer.

http://samuelsidler.com/2011/01/08/chernobyl/ Pictures taken from a recent tour of Chernobyl.

http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/opinion/1014697 omg mormons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOwMW6agpTI#t=6m50s A lecture on reverse engineering Stuxnet, a very sophisticated virus. This video is very entertaining and informative.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/cheney-waits-until-last-minute-again-to-buy-sept-1,2521/ "Cheney Waits Until Last Minute Again To Buy Sept. 11 Gifts"

http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html This is a 6502 CPU simulated at the transistor level in your browser!

http://tartley.com/?p=1267 Git is simple!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art_scaling_algorithms Multiple algorithms are available to upsample pixel art (frequently found in old video games). Wikipedia's article compares several algorithms and shows some impressive results. This paper was also recently released and also gives excellent results. The supplementary material link lets you visually compare different algorithms.

http://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2010/12/day-15-down-ls-rabbit-hole.html Tracing the steps needed to run ls.