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7/22/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Sun, 07/23/2006 - 12:01am

http://bigredasianthing.ytmnd.com/
http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot A project to implement Linux in BIOS.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alternate/sets/199123/ Awesome photos of water in different forms and places.

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7/21/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Sat, 07/22/2006 - 12:00am

http://neodon.blogspot.com/2006/07/little-known-tweak-to-boost-hard-drive.html Windows can slow down CD and hard drives by turning on legacy support for the drive. This is a guide on how to disable that.
http://pimpmobile.ytmnd.com/ A message from Al Gore.

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7/20/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Thu, 07/20/2006 - 11:57pm

http://gkcatsup.ytmnd.com/ The Ketchup Advisory Board has a message.
http://find.publicradio.org/search?site=phc&client=phc&filter=p&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=phc&q=ketchup See the transcripts for more Ketchup Advisory Board skits.
http://rootbeerbarrel.com/ Reviews of hundreds of different types of root beers.

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7/19/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Wed, 07/19/2006 - 11:52pm

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.

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7/18/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Tue, 07/18/2006 - 11:50pm

http://www.nato-bookshop.org/ Get free instructional materials from NATO!
http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/features/armaged.htm Armageddon flowchart.
http://simple-iq.com/ An online IQ test.

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7/17/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Mon, 07/17/2006 - 11:43pm

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4782817775120383631# Birds descend on a tree.
http://news.cnet.com/2300-1016_3-6090070.html How to run Windows apps on a new Intel Mac.

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7/16/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Sun, 07/16/2006 - 11:40pm

http://lifehacker.com/software/top/windows-vista-beta-how-to-dual-boot-windows-xp-and-windows-vista-179906.php How to dual boot Windows XP and Vista.
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/how-its-made-holograms#more-2498 A video on how holograms are made.

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7/15/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Sat, 07/15/2006 - 11:38pm

http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/hearingloss.htmlTest how high of a pitch you can hear. I can hear 16000 Hz but not 17000 Hz.

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7/14/06 Gil's LotD: Birds, Google, Windows

Submitted by gil on Fri, 07/14/2006 - 11:36pm

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3433507052114896375# This video is about a bird that is able to mimic the sounds it hears around it, including sounds of people. This is an amazing video.
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-06-15-n22.html An interview with a Google employee.

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7/13/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Thu, 07/13/2006 - 11:31pm

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.

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