Gil's LotD!
1/20/11 Gil's LotD: The Strokes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPvv8pU68K8 A fan video for Reptilia by The Strokes using scenes from the movie Koyaanisqatsi.
1/19/11 Gil's LotD: Fjölnir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fj%C3%B6lnir_programming_language The Fjölnir programming language.
1/18/11 Gil's LotD: HappyWeb
http://www.kibo.com/kibopost/happyweb/ Kibo on the next generation of the web.
1/17/11 Gil's LotD: Socialist Millionaire problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_millionaire This is how you can see whether two people have the same number without giving away either number.
1/16/11 Gil's LotD: mySQLgame
http://mysqlgame.com/ SQL queries the video game.
1/15/11 Gil's LotD: Sudoku
http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku/ Solving Sudoku with the apt package manager.
1/14/11 Gil's LotD: Pashua
http://www.bluem.net/en/mac/pashua/ Pashua is a simple way to create native MacOS X GUIs for various languages.
1/13/11 Gil's LotD: Tetris effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect Ever played a video game so much that you've started seeing it everywhere?
1/12/11 Gil's LotD: Fishcams
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishcam The world of broadcasting fish tanks.
1/11/11 Gil's LotD: Koyaanisqatsi
http://www.hulu.com/watch/27800/koyaanisqatsi The owners to the rights of the movie Koyaanisqatsi have allowed the move to be shown online. Be sure to watch this, it's a classic!
1/10/11 Gil's LotD: Command-line RSS
http://www.newsbeuter.org/index.html Newsbeuter is a command-line RSS feed reader.
1/9/11 Gil's LotD: Bank closings
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2008/jun/08/anatomy_bank_failure_when_liquidators_comes_callin/ A very interesting article about how the FDIC shuts down banks that have collapsed.
1/8/11 Gil's LotD: Homemade fonts
http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/oilpencil/making.html A guide to producing a font from your handwriting using open source software.
1/7/11 Gil's LotD: Ancient UNIX bugs
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20080708155228&mode=flat&count=13 A new implementation of malloc catches an ancient bug in yacc.
1/6/11 Gil's LotD: MacOS X keyloggers
http://code.google.com/p/logkext/ logkext is a keylogger kernel extension for MacOS X.
1/5/11 Gil's LotD: Super Large Hadron Collider
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Large_Hadron_Collider There are plans for an even bigger particle accelerator after the LHC is done.
1/3/11 Gil's LotD: Sandwich database
http://www.sandwichproject.co.uk/ Help create the world's largest database of sandwiches.
1/2/11 Gil's LotD: Bu-n
http://www.geocities.jp/boon_matome/boon-f.html A very large collections of bu-n flash animations.
1/1/11 Gil's LotD: Postcards
http://www.postcrossing.com/ Sign up to exchange postcards with people from all over the globe!
12/31/10 Gil's LotD: Firefox
http://web.archive.org/web/20080617054057/http://blakeross.com/2005/07/04/firefox-schmutz/ A funny anecdote about Firefox from one of the founders of the project.
12/30/10 Gil's LotD: Instant rimshot
http://instantrimshot.com/classic/?sound=rimshot Get an instant rimshot in your browser! It's too fun to pass up.
12/29/10 Gil's LotD: Hitlers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1382115/Getting-to-know-the-Hitlers.html An article about tracking down Hitler's relatives.
12/28/10 Gil's LotD: At War With Baraka
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6061542646559078080# Baraka synched with The Flaming Lips.
12/27/10 Gil's LotD: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/wiki/ This website shows the shortest path between any two Wikipedia pages.
12/26/10 Gil's LotD crap: You Spin Me Right Round
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di-yWs8NvjA I'm torn. On one hand I really like the song, on the other this cover butchers it.
12/26/10 Gil's LotD: n-dimensional sequential move puzzle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-dimensional_sequential_move_puzzles The Rubik's cube exists in more than three dimensions.