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5/4/06 Gil's LotD: Poetry, Stick figures, Music video

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http://www.spellingsociety.org/news/media/poems.php Poems about the odd words in English, they are very cool.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1103093891548277809# is hiliarious... a disco in an elevator. This is a must see.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/stickfiguresinperil/pool/ Photos taken of stick figures... in peril. This is pretty funny.

4/17/06 Gil's LotD: Zelda, The Internet, Homebrew clocks

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2713994116796945354# Old ad for the original NES Zelda game.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=2747 A map of the backbone routers of the Internet. This is pretty cool.
http://symlink.dk/projects/bob-clock/ A homemade clock which uses a single LED in a circle of LEDs to represent hour, minute, and second hands.

3/23/06 Gil's LotD: Hardcore alarm clarks, Driving pranks

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http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/puzzle-alarm-clock-presents-mild-challenge-wakes-you-up-157999.php An alarm clock which has a puzzle on top you need to solve in order to stop its alarm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoETMCosULQ Drivers go the speed limit which blocks off all traffic. A good, short documentary.

3/21/06 Gil's LotD: Snowflakes, Physics, Finance

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http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2006-02/save-snowflake-decades How to preserve snowflakes in superglue.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4237751840526284618# A very entertaining and informative video about the double slit experiment. You should see this video.
http://www.prosper.com/ A website which lets individuals buy and sell small loans.

1/16/06 Gil's LotD: Falling Sand game

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Gil's LotD
http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/
This game is incredibly fun, but don't forget to turn off the namakujii at the bottom if you want to build stuff. He's a slug and will eat through walls and anything else!
One cool thing to do is to fill a big part with the spout, then make a plant web through it. If you burn the plant, water will drip down and more plant will grow, so it becomes and endless cycle!

5/7/05 Gil's LotD: Games, Star Wars scripts

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Gil's LotD
http://www.onemorelevel.com/games/bowmaster.html This game is pretty addictive, and my little brother is hooked on the sequels
http://scripts.cgispy.com/newsboard.cgi?action=view&num=2&user=script Warning: Supposedly this is the script to Star Wars Episode III. I don't think it is the real deal, but we link to it, you decide. Gil's in-house Star Wars professional has condemned this as a fake.