Gil's LotD!
7/25/10 Gil's LotD
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/pp/pp1395 A paper reviewing the different map projections used by the USGS.
7/24/10 Gil's LotD
http://www.walkscore.com/ Measure how walking accessible your neighborhood is!
7/23/10 Gil's LotD
http://little-people.blogspot.com/ Pictures of miniature people posed as if they were living in the world around us.
7/22/10 Gil's LotD
http://hideapod.com/ Keep your iPod from being stolen by hiding it inside a case that looks like a Zune!
7/21/10 Gil's LotD
http://alientrap.org/nexuiz/ Nexuiz is an open source first person shooter.
7/20/10 Gil's LotD
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/ This blog reviews cool and useful tools.
7/19/10 Gil's LotD: Keyboard cleaning
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11029793&sc=emaf A reporter tries to confirm the urban legend that cleaning keyboards in a dishwasher is safe. It works for his dishwasher but he shares warnings from manufacturers.
7/18/10 Gil's LotD
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kickstart70/sets/72157600262869570/ Really cool pictures of a keyboard partially melted in a fire.
7/17/10 Gil's LotD
http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/781/slurpr-the-mother-of-all-wardrive-boxes Homemade project to leech from multiple open wireless networks for a faster connection.
7/16/10 Gil's LotD
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6626464599825291409# A very understandable video introduction to the mathmatical field of topology.
7/15/10 Gil's LotD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic Nomic is a game where you play by adding and changing the rules and changing the rules as you go along.
7/14/10 Gil's LotD
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/drains-of-canada-interview-with-michael.html An interview with a person who explores and photographs underground storm drains.
7/13/10 Gil's LotD
http://www.dmadesign.org/Lem_1.htm The story behind the creation of the classic Lemmings video game.
7/12/10 Gil's LotD: Trusting compilers
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html A classic article by Ken Thompson about an exploit involving a compiler that modifies the code it compiles.
7/11/10 Gil's LotD
http://www.philosophynow.org/issue44/44radke.htm An article arguing Charlie Brown is an existentialist.
7/10/10 Gil's LotD
http://penultimate-panel.blogspot.com/ This blog posts daily newspaper comics who run a penultimate panel with no speech.
7/9/10 Gil's LotD
http://www.drublair.com/comersus/store/tica.asp The story of the creation of an incredibly photorealistic painting.
7/8/10 Gil's LotD
http://dawdlr.tumblr.com/ A blog of mailed in postcards answering the question "What are you doing, you know, more generally?".
7/7/10 Gil's LotD
http://www.bat-girl.com/archives/000386.php Baseball scenes acted out with legos.
7/6/10 Gil's LotD
http://wrongkmiller.wordpress.com/ A blog of mystery emails sent to the wrong person.
7/5/10 Gil's LotD
http://subwayblogger.com/ Blogging about the New York subway and its issues.
7/4/10 Gil's LotD
http://www.flickr.com/photos/showmeeuphoria/278635073/ A great pose of a praying mantis.
7/4/10 Gil's LotD crap
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1927 Wanna have sex and play video games all day?
7/3/10 Gil's LotD
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quaketronics-tom/sets/72057594114240438/ A bunch of photos taken at the exact moment a water balloon was popped.
7/2/10 Gil's LotD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvWGnXkcaKI Vacuum your cat!
7/1/10 Gil's LotD
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends See the latest daily trends of Google searches.
6/30/10 Gil's LotD
http://www.radicalcartography.net/?subways North American subways shown on the same map with the same scale.
6/29/10 Gil's LotD
http://about-creativity.com/2007/03/an-interview-with-ze-frank.php An interview with Ze Frank, creator of a daily video show on the Internet and a look at his creative process that created the daily show.
6/28/10 Gil's LotD
http://cmsweb.cern.ch/phedex/prod/Activity::RatePlots?view=global Graphs of the data being transferred around the world from the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.