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4/29/07 Gil's LotD: Thou Shalt Always Kill, Flaming toilets, Wikipedia status

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4/29/07 Gil's LotD
http://youtube.com/watch?v=d-MYVv4tgQc The music video for Thou Shalt Always Kill by Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip. Be sure to see this video, it is a really catchy song.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6559373.stm Finally a recall for those darn burning toilets.

4/28/07 Gil's LotD

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4/28/07 Gil's LotD
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RARokyU6rIQ Wow.
http://www.predesign.org/citicorp1.htm A very interesting article about how an engineer realized he made a mistake in the giant skyscraper he made and how he worked to fix it.
http://www.ms-studio.com/articlesarialsid.html How to spot the font Arial, however it has picked a very obvious piece of cover.

4/26/07 Gil's LotD: Cell phones, 300, Underage

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4/26/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/a-nations-youth-all-thumbs-with-pcs/2007/04/13/1175971346787.html A story about the extensive use of cellphones with the latest generation in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-u9SzVdVGI A very funny mix of the soundtrack of the 300 trailer with footage from Anchorman. Be sure to watch this video.

4/21/07 Gil's LotD

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4/21/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtNjDWRXaKI A Comedy Central skit where a talking deer model is tied to the hood of a car and heckles people outside of a gas station.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions Firefox's list of problematic extensions, especially the ones with memory leaks. If you've got Firefox extensions installed, be sure to check this out.

4/22/07 Gil's LotD

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4/22/07 Gil's LotD
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Worst_100_Pick-Up_Lines_of_All_Time Uncyclopedia on the worst pick-up lines ever.
http://duxlist.com:81/ A site which tests users' ability to distinguish between a lossless (perfect) and a version of the song compressed with AAC. If you look at the statistics, even with thousands of participants the people able to tell right vs wrong is still close to 50-50%.

4/20/07 Gil's LotD

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4/20/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9ujTWfXNJo
The music video for Country Roads by Hermes House band. It's a techno
remix of the John Denver song.
http://kirchersociety.org/blog/2007/01/11/world-freehand-circle-drawing-champion/
Video by the world champion of freehand circle drawing. This man draws a
perfect circle, trippy.

4/19/07 Gil's LotD

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4/19/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g1O4LJNs94 Fox News can't do math.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg How to prove the famous seven bridges problem. I love how Wikipedia has a spoiler warning for mathematical proofs.
http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/ This generator combines a random Family Circus image with a random Nietzsche quote.

4/13/07 Gil's LotD

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4/13/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.kilian-nakamura.com/blog-english/index.php/deep-fry-diving-for-goldfish-in-japan/
A video about the latest in fryer technology, a fryer that has a layer of
water.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67389022@N00/
Cool photos from Italy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHYznAb9D9I
Horrible special effects in this clip.

4/5/07 Gil's LotD

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4/5/07 Gil's LotD
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~marekm/projects/beatbots/ An incredible video of a little robot who is designed to dance to communicate with humans. Be sure to see the video of the robot dancing to Spoon.
http://univ.nict.go.jp/people/xkozima/infanoid/robot-eng.html#keepon More information about Keepon!
http://safety.mania.ru/index.htm Airline safety pamphlets in Russian!

4/2/07 Gil's LotD

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4/2/07 Gil's LotD
http://mapofscience.com/ An
interactive map showing all the connections between the different branches
of science.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoezelen
The Snoezelen is a room designed for children with severe mental
disabilities and features soothing (read trippy) visual stimulation.
http://www.papertrail.com/mountain_of_toilets.jpg
lol, toilet mountain