Gil's LotD!
12/3/10 Gil's LotD: Video game glitches
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZDgjjDnWLM#t=4m32s Someone glitched Pikachu's skin onto Ganondorf's model in Super Smash Brothers. The result is disturbing.
12/1/10 Gil's LotD: Ancient HTML tags
http://cyberborean.wordpress.com/2006/03/29/the-ancient-tags-museum/ A list of long-forgotten HTML tags.
12/1/10 Gil's LotD crap: Bell ringing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I-4XS3XtZQ An excited bell ringer.
11/30/10 Gil's LotD: Fireworks testing
http://www.metafilter.com/70073/With-apologies-to-Mrs-BJ-Smegma-of-13-The-Cresent-Belmont Metafilter on testing fireworks.
11/29/10 Gil's LotD: Shell tips and tricks
http://www.shell-fu.org/index.php UNIX shell tips and tricks.
11/28/10 Gil's LotD: Linux on Windows
http://www.andlinux.org/ A port of Ubuntu Linux to Windows. This is a direct port and does not include any type of emulation.
11/27/10 Gil's LotD: Ron Paul supporters
http://paulville.org/ Live in a community of like-minded Ron Paul supporters!
11/26/10 Gil's LotD: downforeveryoneorjustme.com
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ This website gives you a rough confirmation about whether a website's servers are actually down or if it is a problem with your local ISP.
11/25/10 Gil's LotD: Color names
http://blog.doloreslabs.com/?p=11 This user paid Amazon's Mechanical Turk users to give color names to colors. The result is a map of colors to names.
11/24/10 Gil's LotD: Graph paper
http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/ Graph paper of all types available for download. I had no idea some of these types of graph paper existed.
11/23/10 Gil's LotD: Islamic toilet etiquette
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_toilet_etiquette Islam's rules on toilet usage.
11/22/10 Gil's LotD: Camera firmware
http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK_in_Brief The FAQ for replacement firmware for Canon PowerShot cameras.
11/21/10 Gil's LotD: Kamichu!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamichu An anime series about a young girl who discovers she is a kami, a god in the Shinto religion. I watched the series and it was pretty endearing.
11/20/10 Gil's LotD: More Stanley Kubrick
http://www.realitysandwich.com/kubrick_gaze A critical look at Stanley Kubrick.
11/19/10 Gil's LotD: Stereolab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkpXoM0D-Pk Stereolab - Wow And Flutter. This video is very highly recommended. I am a huge fan of Stereolab. This is possibly the greatest LotD of all time.
11/18/10 Gil's LotD: Revolutionary names
http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?t=34446 A list of child names that reference the Soviet Revolution.
11/17/10 Gil's LotD: Stanley Kubrick
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2004/mar/27/features.weekend An article about the extensive archives left by Stanley Kubrick. I suggest you read this if you're any kind of Kubrick fan.
11/16/10 Gil's LotD: Milk bags
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_bag In Canada, milk comes in bags.
11/15/10 Gil's LotD: Star Wars credits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z25t-PQDn5A A jazzier version of the credits to Star Wars: A New Hope.
11/14/10 Gil's LotD: Black Rod
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Rod Black Rod's job is to enforce proper conduct in the Parliament's House of Lords.
11/13/10 GIl's LotD: Æthelred the Unready
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelred_the_Unready Wikipedia on Æthelred the Unready, King of England.
11/12/10 Gil's LotD: Otaku obsessions
http://tanasinn.info/wiki/Stalking_Haruhi_Suzumiya Someone took pictures of the real-life locations in the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
11/11/10 Gil's LotD: Bugs in the original Xbox
http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System This is an incredibly comprehensive article detailing the architecture and security mistakes in the original Xbox. Because of these oversights people were able to mod the Xbox. This article is a must read.
11/10/10 Gil's LotD: The case of the 500-mile email
http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html An anecdote about troubleshooting a system where sending emails while over 500 miles away from the company headquarters did not work.
11/9/10 Gil's LotD: Vim cheat sheet
http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html This is a pretty extensive cheat sheet showing what each key does in the VIM text editor.
11/8/10 Gil's LotD: Electric discharge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenberg_figure The tree-like shapes that electric discharges create. This is the kind of thing you see on lightning victims.
11/7/10 Gil's LotD crap: Knowledge is Key
http://community.livejournal.com/thrifthorror/516306.html I love the first painting. Amazon links to prints are in the comments.