4/25/05 Gil's LotD
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http://cms.3m.com/cms/CA/en/0-243/kkRcuFO/view.jhtml Transparent Duct Tape, this will change the world
http://www.southernangel.com/food/bacongr.html Bacon Grease- greatest seasoning of all time
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http://cms.3m.com/cms/CA/en/0-243/kkRcuFO/view.jhtml Transparent Duct Tape, this will change the world
http://www.southernangel.com/food/bacongr.html Bacon Grease- greatest seasoning of all time
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Looks like I forgot to send yesterday's links, so today you get double the fun!
http://www.quicksilverweb.net/sbucks/sbcharts.htm an explanation for all the terms Starbucks uses.
http://www.kropserkel.com/horse_head_pillow.htm Just an anecdote: My theology teacher was ordained by a guy whose story was part of Godfather 3
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http://web.archive.org/web/20041111092623/www.nik.com.au/alice/ Two A.L.I.C.E. artificial intelligences square off, and prove human superiority over machines
http://vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php a website that simulates what color blindness does to websites
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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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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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http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/tornado/radar_history.html The history of Radar
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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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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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http://www.bhargav.com/books/index.html Need to know something about Physics? Here you go
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http://www.rexfeatures.com/features/516925/ The world's ugliest car
http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637/ using a picture of what's behind your laptop as your background