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http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-image-compression How JPEG images are compressed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Gou_Jian This ancient sword was found in an archaeological dig site in China in nearly perfect condition.

http://www.nitrome.com/games/toxic/ A fun little platformer flash game.

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html Write Perl in Latin!

http://chir.ag/projects/name-that-color/ Find the name of a color by choosing it from a color picker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knowledge#The_Knowledge In order to become a licensed cab driver in London you have to pass a very extensive test of the city.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KazSat_1 Kazakhstan's first satellite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKVwUvdSnU4 Domestic violence simulator from Japan.

http://www.richardvalentin.com/news/hours.html A list of the top two most popular words from news websites. It's updated every hour and goes back a year or two.

http://imgur.com/a/PKKYB This guy took a roll of "for rectal use only" stickers and went to town in a store.

http://www.pauliesworld.org/swhighdef/ See the difference from regular DVD quality to HD in the original Star Wars trilogy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-SSu3tJ3ns Video demonstration of a nearly magical algorithm that can crop the image by looking at the image's contents. You'll have to see it to believe it.

http://www.reportages-pictures.com/PARIS/Aurouze%20family%20rat%20killers%20in%20paris%20since%201875/index.htm Pictures from a French rat killing business.

http://www.socwall.com/ Vote up and down on all kinds of desktop wallpapers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQlpFrm5iM Bearforce1's debut single.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/magazine/12fonts-t.html?ex=1344571200&en=5486b683e4ea62d4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss A fascinating article about the design of a new typeface for interstate highway signs. This is a must read.

http://www.bsbrewing.com/blog/2007/08/makin-bacon/ Instructions on smoking and cooking homemade bacon.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1770138 Minesweeper, the movie.

http://www.plotbot.com/ Collaborative online screenplay writing software.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wp18pJDnfQ A performance of Foggy Mountain Breakdown.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_N_rjkdcKU Tortoise chases a tomato.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/comradehate/ab44cincroyable7sx.jpg Launching a pig in pictures.

http://www.rangevoting.org/GerryExamples.html A paper on a nifty algorithm for drawing up representative districts fairly.

http://www.mapmsg.com/games/statetris/usa/ Tetris done with the states as pieces.

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/music/watch/v379444BDX7HcEw Gay Pimp - Soccer Practice

http://www.chorewars.com/ Chore Wars is an RPG based around completing household chores.

http://www.moanmyip.com/ Hear a sexy voice read out your IP address.

http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html This guy wrote a nifty program to index, search and display a local copy of Wikipedia.

http://lpcoverlover.com/2010/07/18/no-spitting/ Cultural gap.

http://www.precision-gps.org/ Open source software that uses multiple GPS receivers to find the distances between them.