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Bacon

Submitted by gil on Thu, 11/07/2013 - 11:04pm

I smoked homemade bacon. This has been on the bucket list since around 2007 when I first saw this blog post (later posted as a LotD in 2010 after the reboot). I also sourced some advice from this article in the LA Times.

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You Can't Touch Mormon Jesus

Submitted by gil on Thu, 11/07/2013 - 9:06pm

For the first time in Internet history, the lyrics:

Mormon Jesus
Mormon Jesus
Mormon Jesus

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mormonism
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4/16/13 Gil's LotD: Adjective order

Submitted by gil on Tue, 04/16/2013 - 6:00pm

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1155/what-is-the-rule-for-adjective-order The adjective order in English is surprisingly complicated.

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language
english
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3/10/13 Gil's LotD: Floating islands

Submitted by gil on Sun, 03/10/2013 - 6:00pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/national/06island.html?_r=0 America's dangerous floating islands.

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article
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3/5/13 Gil's LotD crap: Colors

Submitted by gil on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 6:00pm

https://www.youtube.com/user/xsetpointer/videos Helpful Youtube videos.

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2/20/13 Gil's LotD: Babysitting co-op

Submitted by gil on Wed, 02/20/2013 - 6:00pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Babysitting_Co-op This babysitting co-op makes for an excellent example of how monetary and fiscal policy work.

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best of lotd
economics
Wikipedia
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2/17/13 Gil's LotD: NYC Subway Design Manual

Submitted by gil on Sun, 02/17/2013 - 10:00pm

http://thestandardsmanual.com/ The design manual created for the NYC subway by Vignelli.

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transportation
new york
subway
design
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1/23/13 Gil's LotD: Distinguishing Bolts from Screws

Submitted by gil on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 6:00pm

http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/legal/informed_compliance_pubs/icp013.ctt/icp013.pdf The Federal Government's official document on distinguishing bolts from screws.

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government
hardware
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12/31/12 Gil's LotD: Scrabble distribution

Submitted by gil on Mon, 12/31/2012 - 6:00pm

http://blog.useost.com/2012/12/30/valett/ Rethinking the Scrabble point distribution.

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scrabble
geek
game
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12/24/12 Gil's LotD: Signals and syscalls

Submitted by gil on Mon, 12/24/2012 - 6:00pm

http://lwn.net/Articles/528935/ Al Viro on how signals are handled during syscalls in Linux.

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Linux
unix
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