12/4/10 Gil's LotD: Abandoned lot
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hellmutt/sets/72157602655023537/ Photos from an abandoned, overgrown roller coaster.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hellmutt/sets/72157602655023537/ Photos from an abandoned, overgrown roller coaster.
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.
http://cyberborean.wordpress.com/2006/03/29/the-ancient-tags-museum/ A list of long-forgotten HTML tags.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I-4XS3XtZQ An excited bell ringer.
http://www.metafilter.com/70073/With-apologies-to-Mrs-BJ-Smegma-of-13-The-Cresent-Belmont Metafilter on testing fireworks.
http://www.shell-fu.org/index.php UNIX shell tips and tricks.
http://www.andlinux.org/ A port of Ubuntu Linux to Windows. This is a direct port and does not include any type of emulation.
http://paulville.org/ Live in a community of like-minded Ron Paul supporters!
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.
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.
http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/ Graph paper of all types available for download. I had no idea some of these types of graph paper existed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_toilet_etiquette Islam's rules on toilet usage.
http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK_in_Brief The FAQ for replacement firmware for Canon PowerShot cameras.
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.
http://www.realitysandwich.com/kubrick_gaze A critical look at Stanley Kubrick.
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.
http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?t=34446 A list of child names that reference the Soviet Revolution.
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_bag In Canada, milk comes in bags.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z25t-PQDn5A A jazzier version of the credits to Star Wars: A New Hope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Rod Black Rod's job is to enforce proper conduct in the Parliament's House of Lords.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelred_the_Unready Wikipedia on Æthelred the Unready, King of England.
http://tanasinn.info/wiki/Stalking_Haruhi_Suzumiya Someone took pictures of the real-life locations in the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
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.
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.
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.
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.