4/28/07 Gil's LotD

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4/28/07 Gil's LotD
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RARokyU6rIQ Wow.
http://www.predesign.org/citicorp1.htm A very interesting article about how an engineer realized he made a mistake in the giant skyscraper he made and how he worked to fix it.
http://www.ms-studio.com/articlesarialsid.html How to spot the font Arial, however it has picked a very obvious piece of cover.

4/26/07 Gil's LotD: Cell phones, 300, Underage

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4/26/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/a-nations-youth-all-thumbs-with-pcs/2007/04/13/1175971346787.html A story about the extensive use of cellphones with the latest generation in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-u9SzVdVGI A very funny mix of the soundtrack of the 300 trailer with footage from Anchorman. Be sure to watch this video.

4/21/07 Gil's LotD

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4/21/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtNjDWRXaKI A Comedy Central skit where a talking deer model is tied to the hood of a car and heckles people outside of a gas station.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions Firefox's list of problematic extensions, especially the ones with memory leaks. If you've got Firefox extensions installed, be sure to check this out.

4/22/07 Gil's LotD

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4/22/07 Gil's LotD
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Worst_100_Pick-Up_Lines_of_All_Time Uncyclopedia on the worst pick-up lines ever.
http://duxlist.com:81/ A site which tests users' ability to distinguish between a lossless (perfect) and a version of the song compressed with AAC. If you look at the statistics, even with thousands of participants the people able to tell right vs wrong is still close to 50-50%.

4/20/07 Gil's LotD

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4/20/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9ujTWfXNJo
The music video for Country Roads by Hermes House band. It's a techno
remix of the John Denver song.
http://kirchersociety.org/blog/2007/01/11/world-freehand-circle-drawing-champion/
Video by the world champion of freehand circle drawing. This man draws a
perfect circle, trippy.