Gil's LotD!

4/25/06 Gil's LotD

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2327362306890687814# A music video for the Picard song done in The Sims 2.
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/103 An interview with a collector who has thousands of video games all shelved up in his basement.
http://www.damninteresting.com/dream-car-the-ariel-atom-2 An article about a tiny little car

4/17/06 Gil's LotD: Zelda, The Internet, Homebrew clocks

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2713994116796945354# Old ad for the original NES Zelda game.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=2747 A map of the backbone routers of the Internet. This is pretty cool.
http://symlink.dk/projects/bob-clock/ A homemade clock which uses a single LED in a circle of LEDs to represent hour, minute, and second hands.

4/8/06 Gil's LotD

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http://www2.rasterwerks.com/game/phosphor/beta2.asp This is a very amazing Shockwave game which is a first person 3D shooter that runs entirely in Shockwave in your browser. This game is a beta, and is designed to be played against other people (I won't show you how to set that up). If the software says it needs to install something for this video, it's probably a good idea to go along with it. Mac people need to go into the video settings in the preferences and change the graphics mode to OpenGL from DirectX.

4/2/06 Gil's LotD

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http://www.mikeash.com/?page=software/gpulife/index.html A MacOS X screensaver which runs the game of live in a OpenGL shader, which means that the entire screen is being drawn by the graphics card. You can use this as a sort of benchmark for Mac graphics cards.
http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/19017/Pacman_Running_Around_Library.html Pacman takes a trip to the library.