8/31/06 Gil's LotD
http://www.talkdigger.com/ Find out what blogs and sites are linking to what stories and posts.
http://www.gophernow.com/ Find food online!
http://eatpes.com/game_over.html A video of classic arcade games done with food.
http://www.talkdigger.com/ Find out what blogs and sites are linking to what stories and posts.
http://www.gophernow.com/ Find food online!
http://eatpes.com/game_over.html A video of classic arcade games done with food.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeMDvCdrtc The worst cover ever of the song The Final Countdown.
http://spellcoder.com/blogs/mostafa/archive/2006/08/20/317.aspx A story describing how colorblind people view color.
http://www.zefrank.com/punc/ A flash video about how to properly write a business email. Warning, contains slight profanity.
http://ask.yahoo.com/20060818.html The difference between nerds, geeks, and dorks is finally explained.
http://dslrblog.com/animated-long-exposure-photographs/ Animated pictures where each frame was taken with a long exposure time.
http://www.john-drury.com/blog/?p=8 5 AWESOMELY GREAT APPLICATIONS FOR MAC USERS ONLY ROFLCOPTER
http://www.mic-ro.com/metro/metroart.html This page is about subway stations and the art inside of them around the world.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/tired_weight/index.html Calculate a car's weight by measuring its area touching the ground and tire pressure.
http://nedmbitesback.ytmnd.com/ NEDM: Revenge.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/MYSA081706_01A_Tree_Follow_302fc8c_html35169.html Woman has miracle tree which drips water which miraculously stops dripping when the city turns off water to her house.
http://www.physorg.com/news75128924.html Interview with a Biblical scholar who has written a new book about Satan's role in the bible.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Knex-semi-automatic/ A semi-automatic gun made of and launching Knex pieces.
http://www.bookfaced.com/fb/ The Facebook mapper, which maps your friends' hometowns on a Google map.
http://upl.codeq.info/ The Universal Packing List, which will help you pack for any trip ever.
http://www.swissminigun.ch/home.html The smallest revolver in the world.
http://www.datenform.de/dusteng.html An art project where the boxes from Counter-Strike were made into real life boxes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goochland_County,_Virginia Goochland County, Virginia.
http://inventgeek.com/Projects/alpharad/overview.aspx How to make a random number generator using a radioactive source (which decays randomly).
http://dehydrated.ytmnd.com/ Finally, dehydrated water is on the market.
http://www.craigotis.com/ iProcrastinate is a free calendar program for students.
http://www.slate.com/id/2147590/ An article about sorting the different users from AOL's released search data into different categories.
http://www.pacifict.com/Story/ A great story about the graphing calculator program that was included with all PPC macs.
http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/ YamiPod is a program for Mac and Windows which lets you copy music to and from iPods without the iTunes program.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/wireless/asus-wl700ge-wifi-router-builtin-160gb-drive-itunes-and-bittorrent-193470.php The king of home routers.
http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/star_trek_insp.html?trek Three pages of Star Trek inspirational posters.
http://mekentosj.com/designawards/ Information about a prize glowing cube Apple gave to some student programmers.
http://www.roadgladiator.com/2006/08/paper_shredders_for_business_t.html Nine bladed scissors for paper shredding.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/art_treyu/sets/72157594227666274/ Engrish pictures.
http://cre.ations.net/creation/the-time-fountain This is a video of water dripping in a strobe light. The result is water that looks like it's frozen in time.
http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/multimedia/2006/08/71554 Another story about a robotic parking system that shuts down and takes all the parked cars as hostages.
http://www.callthefuture.org/ Leave creepy phone messages with your friends!
http://www.threadless.com/product/515/Fig_02 Go Scoutcraft!
http://www.threadless.com/product/153/Fill_Me_Up
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/08/71548 Exploits and the BlackBerry!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2-LeBK17EY A Japanese diver who can blow bubbles in rings.
http://www.lockergnome.com/diy/how-to-open-a-beer-bottle-with-a-piece-of-paper/ How to open a beer bottle with paper (if you don't have a bottle opener on hand, of course).
http://techcrunch.com/2006/08/06/aol-proudly-releases-massive-amounts-of-user-search-data/ AOL released a bunch of searches that users have made, and categorized them by a random user ID.
http://www.gregsadetsky.com/aol-data/ Mirrors of the AOL data released.
http://freshpics.blogspot.com/2006/04/amazing-lego-art-in-legoland.html The city of Venice sculpted in legos.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/08/japan_ticket_gates.php Japan is trying out generators installed in turnstiles that will generate electricity when people walk through them.
http://ralphwiggum.ytmnd.com/ The song Ralph Wiggum by the Bloodhound Gang, set to pictures.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17495916&method=full&siteid=115875&headline=odds-ways-to-die--name_page.html Get the odds on different ways of dying.
http://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/08/top-10-coolest-bbq-grills/ A bunch (more then 10, the URL lies) of cool BBQ grills.
http://www.unusualhotelsoftheworld.com/ UNUSUAL HOTELS OF THE WORLD
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-small-flaming-vortex-of-DOOM!/ Make a vortex of fire and doom.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mushmouth26/200612659/in/pool-make/ A giant floppy. This thing is like 3 times bigger then the old 5 1/4 big floppies. Check out the comments to see what it actually is.
http://www.sleepycity.net/ More urban exploring, like in yesterday's LotD about the London Underground.
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SPEC/GAL-PENN.htm Pictures of the now destroyed Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan.
http://underground-history.co.uk/front.php A page on abandoned stations on the London Underground.
http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html A prank a guy pulled on his neighbors who were using his wireless to have his wireless router mess with all the webpages as they passed through his connection.
http://basangpanaginip.blogspot.com/2006/07/worlds-most-photorealistic-vector-art.html Very realistic vector art, which is a type of digital art that takes a long time to do very accurate details like the ones in these pictures.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/0421834/M/ Cool photo of space launch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWzmL05OlYA A preview for Portal, a cool looking puzzle game being made.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17400905&method=full&siteid=115875&headline=oaps--you-weren-t-meant-to-hear-that--name_page.html All sorts of quotes politicians accidentally said into a live microphone.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Q-Tip-Gun/ How to make a Q-Tip gun.
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-5-strangest-military-gadgets The top five strangest military gadgets (the title says it all!).
http://www.instructables.com/id/Flame-Whip/ How to make a flaming whip. My life is complete.
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/07/ipod/index_01.htm The 10 oddest iPod accessories.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/07/19/google.logo/index.html A story about the guy who draws the different logos for Google.
http://www.macworld.com/article/46543/2005/08/fullscreen.html How to get movies to play in full screen in QuickTime without paying for QuickTime Pro.
http://www.opendns.com/ A free alternative DNS service which has very speedy servers and blocks some phishers, typosquatters, and spammers. I like the service a lot, I configured our home router to use it for DNS so now the whole network here uses their service.