Gil's LotD!
6/6/11 Gil's LotD: Facial hair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidents_with_facial_hair Wikipedia's list of presidents with facial hair. You can sort the table by sideburns!
6/5/11 Gil's LotD: Abelson Stole The Precious Course
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdj6deraQ6k You are not expected to understand this.
6/4/11 Gil's LotD crap: Viral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMmG9TrYyAE The best of gushers.
6/4/11 Gil's LotD: Ice ribbons
http://my.ilstu.edu/~jrcarter/ice/diurnal/extrude/ Forming tiny ribbons of ice by freezing water in pipes with a slit in them.
6/3/11 Gil's LotD: Flooding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY Watch quickly rising flood waters in this video.
6/2/11 Gil's LotD: McBarge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McBarge The McBarge was the world's first floating McDonalds!
6/2/11 Gil's LotD crap: Synthesizer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1pchpDD5EU An electric organ wired into an 8-bit synthesizer.
6/1/11 Gil's LotD: Chernobyl
http://samuelsidler.com/2011/01/08/chernobyl/ Pictures taken from a recent tour of Chernobyl.
5/31/11 Gil's LotD: Stuxnet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOwMW6agpTI#t=6m50s A lecture on reverse engineering Stuxnet, a very sophisticated virus. This video is very entertaining and informative.
5/31/11 Gil's LotD crap: 9/11
http://www.theonion.com/articles/cheney-waits-until-last-minute-again-to-buy-sept-1,2521/ "Cheney Waits Until Last Minute Again To Buy Sept. 11 Gifts"
5/30/11 Gil's LotD: 6502
http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html This is a 6502 CPU simulated at the transistor level in your browser!
5/30/11 Gil's LotD crap: Git
http://tartley.com/?p=1267 Git is simple!
5/29/11 Gil's LotD: Pixel art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art_scaling_algorithms Multiple algorithms are available to upsample pixel art (frequently found in old video games). Wikipedia's article compares several algorithms and shows some impressive results. This paper was also recently released and also gives excellent results. The supplementary material link lets you visually compare different algorithms.
5/29/11 Gil's LotD crap: UNIX
http://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2010/12/day-15-down-ls-rabbit-hole.html Tracing the steps needed to run ls.
5/28/11 Gil's LotD: Lady Gaga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl4L4M8m4d0 A parody of Bad Romance by the graduate student staff of a research lab.
5/27/11 Gil's LotD: Pia Fraus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1MyVZEKbew Pia Fraus - Moon Like A Pearl
5/26/11 Gil's LotD: Line-crossing ceremony
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-crossing_ceremony The Line-crossing ceremony is an ancient naval tradition.
5/25/11 Gil's LotD: Infrastructurist
http://www.infrastructurist.com/ Infrastructurist is an excellent blog covering news stories about America's transportation systems.
5/24/11 Gil's LotD: Quizzes
http://www.sporcle.com/ Sporcle is just full of short quizzes.
5/23/11 Gil's LotD: Sleeping Asians
http://asianssleepinginthelibrary.tumblr.com/ Finals might be over but there's still plenty of sleeping Asians in college libraries.
5/23/11 Gil's LotD crap: Demos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af-gjk39lds A Nintendo DS demoscene demo.
5/22/11 Gil's LotD: Subway maps
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2010/12/915879/new-york-subway-map-wars-continued An article about a panel discussion over New York City's subway maps.
5/21/11 Gil's LotD: The Pirate code
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_code Wikipedia on the laws of the high seas.
5/20/11 Gil's LotD: Drinking
http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Grin-Tonic/Holiday-Spirits/ba-p/3553 The proper Russian method of drinking vodka.
5/19/11 Gil's LotD: Raising of Chicago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago In the 1850s Chicago's buildings were raised up from ground level.
5/18/11 Gil's LotD: Reincarnation
http://www.johnadams.net/ John Adams has come back from the dead and is writing books! Amazing!