9/15/10 Gil's LotD
http://www.freecycle.org/ Instead of throwing away something useful find someone in town who wants it!
http://www.freecycle.org/ Instead of throwing away something useful find someone in town who wants it!
http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/index.php Find your reaction time! I can't beat 250 ms.
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2007/october/hawkes-over-london HDR photographs of London at night.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2007/oct/10/art A giant crack was constructed in the floor of the Tate Modern museum as an installation. This article tries to get the story behind its creation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQQUEicr6d8 The performance scene from the movie Linda Linda Linda.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG6X-xtVask Texas state legislature representatives are caught voting multiple times on camera.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=18877782#pm_cmp=vid_OEV_P_P A pretty well-made Rube Goldberg machine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO0K50C8m6A A pedal powered car with a park.
Monday was Gil's LotD's 6th birthday! Happy birthday!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tzga6qAaBA Repairing high tension power lines from helicopters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KYfAU7eXNU The Lucky Star mod for Grand Theft Auto.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Tenant_Farmers_Union A New Deal group that regulated the supply of food in order to increase prices.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article6879237.ece How free sex destroyed the prostitution market.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ZD4_FL0ms Cat overload.
http://lastgraph3.aeracode.org/ This website looks at a last.fm profile and visualizes its listening history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Surrender_of_Japan_-_USS_Missouri.jpg A picture of the ceremony where Japan formally surrendered at the end of World War II.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn3BxI0vBtU Pizazz! by Peter Curtis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berghof_(Hitler) Hitler's mountain home.
http://www.makepure.com/puredollspage.html Creepy lifelike dolls from Japan.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/pitchfork-gives-music-68,2278/ Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8
http://www.endlessyoutube.com/watch?v=oHrB7yEQlx8 Hot Pants by Bobby Byrd.
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/332081_slut18.html An unfortunate name for a streetcar line.
http://joeclark.org/appearances/atypi/2007/TTC/inscribed/ History of the typefaces used in Toronto's subway system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuZl9tRqjoQ The Anaesthetists Hymn.
http://www.uhaul.com/boards/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=4 A message board for giving away and picking up moving boxes.
http://shapewiki.com/ A collaborative wiki of user uploaded shapes that can be used on a map.
http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US7/FOLK/pissing.html Selected folk stories from a website full of American folk stories.
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/stephencfleming/BellJarBees02#slideshow/5109316574774634850 A slideshow of bees making a hive inside a glass jar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lick_Me_in_the_Ass One of Mozart's lesser known compositions.
http://armorgames.com/play/24/indestructotank IndestructoTank is a nifty flash game.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1562487/Lord-Michael-Pratt.html The obituary for Lord Michael Pratt.