Gil's LotD!

5/21/07 Gil's LotD

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5/21/07 Gil's LotD
After today I'm going back to 2 links per email for the summer.
http://www.bibliobuffet.com/bb/content/view/186/195/ Bacon bookmarks.
http://www.progressquest.com/ Progress Quest: sit back and let the RPG play itself.
http://www.hactrn.net/sra/vaxen.html A very good short story about a VAX machine in a data center full of unfamiliar operators.

5/15/07 Gil's LotD

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5/15/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TsRdkrxl4g This guy studied Saturday Night Fever and made this instructional video on how to do the Hustle. Val, take notes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVPfTlpCKaw A neat little music video using typefaces for all of the animation.
http://software.barbariangroup.com/magnetosphere/ Crazy iTunes music visualizer for Mac and Windows.

5/11/07 Gil's LotD

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5/11/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAUXdDO_NgM An interview with Pikachu's voice actor. Be sure to see this video.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_PipeOrgan Know anything about pipe organs? Join in!
http://everybody.who.opposes.me.willbedefeated.com/ Replace the text before .willbedefated.com to have the video talk about your enemy!

5/9/07 Gil's LotD

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5/9/07 Gil's LotD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess-related_deaths Wikipedia's article on Chess-related death.
http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/references_to_w.html Microsoft in the movies.
http://www.whiteglovetracking.com/ A project (now completed) that used volunteers to track the location of Michael Jackson's white glove in the performance of Billy Jean.

5/7/07 Gil's LotD: Books, Dante's Inferno, Pulp Fiction

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5/7/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.judgeabook.blogspot.com/ A blog all about judging books by their covers.
http://www.dantefilm.com/trailer.html Trailer for a remake of Dante's Inferno using paper dolls. It looks really cool, and if your computer can handle it view the HD trailer. Isn't QuickTime great?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSvJwUFI_es The Pulp Fiction trailer with Muppets edited in to the clip. SFW

5/4/07 Gil's LotD

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5/4/07 Gil's LotD
http://graphserver.sourceforge.net/ Software that when given a map of paths will find a route for you!
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/usgrid/ More map stuffs: Census data about density, race, and other population characteristics.
http://www.kiplinger.com/features/archives/2006/11/jobinterview.html Things not to say at a job interview. Also never go into the back room.

5/3/07 Gil's LotD: Hiliarious graphics, Dog scams, Facebook

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5/3/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOvq3-oG5BM A preview video of Sumotori Dreams, a tiny and funny game. The link for the download is in the description and be sure to see the video.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=263297 The latest scam in Japan is selling people sheep and calling them poodles?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHi-ZcvFV_0 A parody Facebook infomercial.

5/2/07 Gil's LotD

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5/2/07 Gil's LotD
http://reverent.org/sounds_like_faulkner.html Guess whether a line of text was translated into English by Babelfish or was written by Faulkner!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHH8Q4xxt2U An alternate ending to The Empire Strikes Back.
http://watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/04/1590-gun-powder-flask-sundial-compass.html A gunpowder flask AND pocket watch.