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http://www.bsbrewing.com/blog/2007/08/makin-bacon/ Instructions on smoking and cooking homemade bacon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTxaVfhAnTc An ocarina made from a carrot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGyoMuE4gDQ How ball bearings are made.

5/23/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7_wL0ZZi6k A video tour of how camera lenses are made. I love these types of videos.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7038758514398564533 hey, that's fr. o

5/22/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfF9jGD-7E0 A stitched-together music video for a disco cover of the Star Wars soundtrack. It's the best selling instrumental single to this day.
http://www.worldwidewank.com/generator.html Warning, NSFW. A silly masturbation synonym generator.

5/4/07 Gil's LotD
http://graphserver.sourceforge.net/ Software that when given a map of paths will find a route for you!
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/usgrid/ More map stuffs: Census data about density, race, and other population characteristics.
http://www.kiplinger.com/features/archives/2006/11/jobinterview.html Things not to say at a job interview. Also never go into the back room.

4/24/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.abduzeedo.com/vector-effects Photoshop tutorial on creating vector art to be layered with an image.
http://www.psaudio.com/products/xstream_ultimate.asp A power cable for over $1000. lol wut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chobham_armour A ceramic armor used on tanks to protect against explosives.

http://spritesmods.com/?art=inker&page=1 Instructions on building a homebrew device that controls an inkjet cartridge so it can be carried around and print messages anywhere.
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/14/zelda-cartoon-season-1/ The old-school Zelda cartoons on YouTube!

http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/ The Etherkiller's homepage: one end plugs in the wall, the other your Ethernet card.
http://www.innocentive.com/ Innocentive is a site for businesses to offer rewards for solutions and for scientists to search for problems so they can try and find a solution.

This is the last link of 2006. It's been a good year! I probably should throw together some of my favorite links from the year. Anyway, a bit about LotD: right now I'm looking at moving LotD to a proper database driven website, and Drupal seems to be the way to go. If more comes up, I'll send out an update.