9/26/06 Gil's LotD
http://people.howstuffworks.com/assassin-game-news.htm A game played out where you are given a person to hunt down and squirt with water.
http://people.howstuffworks.com/assassin-game-news.htm A game played out where you are given a person to hunt down and squirt with water.
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ The most important website on the Internet. Don't go there if you've got a stolen version of Windows, however.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=confidential+%22do+not+distribute%22&btnG=Search Whoops, don't publish your confidential documents online where Google can see them.
Warning, all the links today are not safe for work for various reasons (mostly because it's dirty joke day).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5SxGmsACL8 A music video in which the camera was bundled up in foam and dropped off the Golden Gate Bridge.
http://pgl.yoyo.org/bofh/ BOFH excuse generator.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Shock_2 Wikipedia on System Shock 2.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/download-accelerator-for-linux-command-line-tools.html Axel is a command line download accelerator which works like wget. I got it to compile and run fine under MacOS X.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84PTH8ceWvI A video about the demise of Easter Island.
http://www.acme.com/licensemaker/ License plate generator!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U2kIatxYrws A very good video about ATP synthase.
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http://jaxcore.blogspot.com/2006/08/some-moral-dilemmas-following-is-list.html Some famous moral dilemmas.
http://www.crummychurchsigns.com/ Analysis of bad church signs.
http://www.onethirty.org/problem_report.html The all-purpose computer problem report form!
http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople/watterson.html Rarely seen drawings by Bill Watterson, the artist of Calvin and Hobbes.
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Uncyclopedia:How_To_Be_Funny_And_Not_Just_Stupid A very good article on how to be funny when writing and not just random and stupid.
http://jaxcore.blogspot.com/2006/08/some-moral-dilemmas-following-is-list.html Some famous moral dilemmas.
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http://jaxcore.blogspot.com/2006/08/some-moral-dilemmas-following-is-list.html Some famous moral dilemmas.
http://www.crummychurchsigns.com/ Analysis of bad church signs.
http://www.onethirty.org/problem_report.html The all-purpose computer problem report form!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-uYju9qW_w Video about the mother of all login sounds.
http://www.owensworld.com/flashgames/play.php?id=199 The Teletubby Kill game. Warning, gory.
http://www.says-it.com/seal/index.php The Official Seal Generator. I'll think of one for LotD later.
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http://www.says-it.com/seal/index.php The Official Seal Generator. I'll think of one for LotD later.
http://www.owensworld.com/flashgames/play.php?id=199/ The Teletubby Kill game. Warning, gory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-uYju9qW_w Video about the mother of all login sounds.
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http://wificamera.propositions.org.uk/ A cool project that consists of a homemade cantenna and a projector which projects the wireless networks as they are observed by the antenna.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI Another home music video by the band OK Go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjCL0_0Il7w The same music video, done with legos.
http://wificamera.propositions.org.uk/ A cool project that consists of a homemade cantenna and a projector which projects the wireless networks as they are observed by the antenna.
http://www.filebomb.com/games/files/fracture.swf Fun arcade style space shooting game, like Pheonix or Maverick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI Another home music video by the band OK Go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vErJFmUF7DM A strange French cartoon about a guy who wakes up one morning as a woman.
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http://www.jhprod.com/mpegs/Pile_Eng_480x360.mov A Rube Goldberg machine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vErJFmUF7DM A strange French cartoon about a guy who wakes up one morning as a woman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94KzmB2bI7s Cool experiment that uses speakers to lift things.
http://ransom.redjar.org/ All of the USGS topographical maps were bought by this guy and were sent over to the Internet Archive so soon you shall be able to download them for free. Check back for updates. This is cool.
http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/drc/dlgv32pro/ USGS mapviewing software.
http://mediadesigner.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=19756 How to give people hair in Photoshop. Jake, this has your name written all over it.
http://metaphilm.com/philm.php?id=29_0_2_0 An interesting article drawing comparisons between the movie Fight Club and the cartoon strip Calvin and Hobbes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novgorod In Soviet Russia, we have stainless steel copy machine. It fall and crush worker in Novgorod...
http://www.demoforge.com/dfmirage.htm DFMirage is a fake video driver which can be used in Windows to accelerate the speed of VNC.
http://www.portablefreeware.com/ Portable versions of common programs (portable means that you can copy them to a flash drive and they will work off of that flash drive from any computer you plug it into). Very nifty!
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/bizfinance/biz/features/10816/index1.html A very interesting story about the creation and marketing of the Grey Goose brand of vodka.
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246366.html On the topic of mainframes, IBM's Redbook, a introduction to mainframes and how they work for the people who work on them.
http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2006/08/mainframe_meets.html Internal videos made by IBM poking fun at their mainframe sales divison. "Excuse me, do you have 5 minutes and 1.5 million dollars to spare?"
http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/ This guy put a jet engine in the back of his Beetle. It works.
http://www.arcanegazebo.net/2006/08/measurements_of_gravity_using.html A story about an undergrad in a lab who decides to take a 230 L DeWar flask full of liquid nitrogen down a stairway in a handcar.
http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/gallery/survival/food/2006/08/make-survival-kit-out-altoids-tin-and-two-more-life-saving-diy-?# A very useful survival kit that fits in an altoids can (but be sure you know how to start a fire if you're going to pack firestarter).
http://www.thesneeze.com/steve-dont-eat-it/ More from the blog that gave the bunny in the previous LotD, these are stories about eating things barely considered food. This is a link you must read.
http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000550.php A very furry bunny.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/usb-powered-bbq--wtf-196087.php The underwhelming USB powered barbeque. Well, it's more of a hot plate.
http://www.andreaharner.com/archives/2006/08/geek_joke_and_cute_puppy_recipe.html AUTHENTIC PHOTOS OF A REAL FIREFOX.
http://lifehacker.com/software/top/hack-attack-top-10-ubuntu-apps-and-tweaks-195437.php A top ten list of programs for Ubuntu.
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus!
http://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com/ That's got to be the longest domain name for a functional website ever.
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/securitymonkey/look-at-all-of-these-passwords-11240 A look at many websites which don't encrypt passwords when they are being sent over the internet.
http://www.wickedlasers.com/ Lasers powerful enough to start fires. Be sure to see the videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FccTXjqQrs Crazy music video.