Gil's LotD!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDowell_Nature_Preserve The McDowell Nature Preserve is an urban park with hiking trails in Charlotte, North Carolina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rock_Nature_Preserve The Big Rock Nature Preserve is a park known for its "very big and quite significant rocks."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unparliamentary_language Unparliamentary language is the words or phrases that are deemed inappropriate for use in the legislature whilst it is in session.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VroniPlag_Wiki VroniPlag is a community project to find plagiarism in German doctoral theses.

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-brief-dive-into-power-mac-inits-and.html Writing a USB mouse driver as a system extension for MacOS 9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghilman The Quran mentions ghilman (غِلْمَان) as serving boys who are one of the delights of Jannah or paradise/heaven of Islam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettieis Spaghettieis is a German ice cream dish made to look like a plate of spaghetti.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3044133/a-rare-interview-with-graphic-design-legend-massimo-vignelli Massimo Vignelli talks about his subway design.

http://dev.stephendiehl.com/numpile/ Transform Python AST into LLVM IR for JIT execution.

http://localsustainability.streamshare.com/posts/13103 The history of cornbread in the South.

http://mainframesproject.tumblr.com/ Mainframe terminals available on the public internet.

http://jasmcole.com/2014/08/25/helmhurts/ Modeling the propagation of WiFi signals in an apartment to find the perfect router location.

http://njgeo.org/2014/01/30/mitch-hedberg-and-gis/ Finding all the La Quintas that are close to a Denny's.

http://jiahao.github.io/julia-blog/2014/06/09/the-colors-of-chemistry.html A step-by-step tour on how to derive the visible spectra from absorption and emission spectra.

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/87682811573/compressing-scrabble-dictionaries Efficient ways to store Scrabble wordlists.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/2014-04-15-porting-ghc-a-tale-of-two-architectures.html The compelling story of how the Glasgow Haskell Compiler was ported to two new architectures.

http://brunching.com/pornorpony.html Is that a porn star or a My Little Pony character?

http://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/ Convincingly fake git manpages.

https://github.com/bridgetkromhout/devops-against-humanity Hacker version of Cards Against Humanity.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Mar/0272.html The complete history of the X Windows color list.

http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov12/index.html Written by a Soviet defector this book gives a great insight into the Soviet leadership's mindset.

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/signal-safe-strcpy POSIX forbids using strcpy in signal handlers. Here's how to get around that.

http://royrapoport.blogspot.com/2011/05/coffee-and-its-effects-on-feature-creep.html Managing coffee orders in the workplace.

http://coreperf.com/projects/rejit/introduction.html Rejit is a regular expression engine that uses a JIT for code generation. It also makes use of fancy modern CPU tricks like SIMD instructions.

http://doge2048.com/ The secrets of the universe.

http://www.sbnation.com/2014/1/30/5351052/breaking-madden-super-bowl-broncos-seahawks Pushing Madden 25 to its limits.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/17/us/the-last-e-mail-goodbye-from-gwb-to-his-42-buddies.html George W. Bush kept a mailing list of friends right up until he won the presidency.

https://www.trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2013-020.txt Satis smart toilets have a hard coded password allowing anyone to flush and lift the lid remotely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppression_of_the_Society_of_Jesus Now it's payback time for the Jesuits.

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/The_Long_View.html The Long View writes about long-forgotten technical details from the original Macintosh system.