Gil's LotD!

Gil's LotD
http://www.shreddies.org/gmaps/ All the crazy things you can see on Google maps
http://davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm How Science Fiction from the 30's and 40's saw today

Gil's LotD
http://members.tripod.com/Madtbone/church.htm excuses to get out of attending church
http://geekprom.com/ Oxymoron (noun)- a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect

Gil's LotD
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/tornado/radar_history.html The history of Radar

Gil's LotD
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/wireless/samsung-30mile-cordless-phone-036608.php A cordless phone with a 30 mile range. Can you hear me now?$
http://www.renderman.org/ What Pixar uses to render photorealistic images
http://slate.msn.com/id/2114925/?GT1=6208 Memory Champions, I forgot about these guys

Gil's LotD
Gil will be in Chicago for the next couple of days in the national Academic Decathalon tournament, so if you don't get LoTD for a day it should be back the next.
http://www.techfreakz.org/fishmon/ Putting fish behind your screen
http://kernelthread.com/software/ams2hid/ The Apple sudden motion sensor- it detects when your laptop has been dropped or thrown, and uses that to protect your data

Gil's LotD
http://www.bhargav.com/books/index.html Need to know something about Physics? Here you go

Gil's LotD
http://www.rexfeatures.com/features/516925/ The world's ugliest car
http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637/ using a picture of what's behind your laptop as your background

Gil's LotD
http://keithschofield.com/html/notwist-mov.html a personal favorite of the LotD staff
http://keithschofield.com/djformat-video/ LoTD represents!

Gil's LotD
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/american_idle_numa.html Dragostea din tei on American Idol
http://www.backuptrauma.com/video/default2.aspx The institute for Backup Trauma

Gil's LotD
http://www.laureleastmankiteboarding.com/ The prestigious Laurel Eastman School of Kiteboarding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carloman_%28son_of_Pippin_III%29 The brother of Charlemagne

Gil's LotD
http://www.emptybowl.com/ a website that rates the quality of various online slot parlors

Gil's LotD
Cat day!
http://lee.org/journal/journal%20060103-073103/ATTACK-KITTEN.jpg
http://porcupine.net/taps/images/kitten_hat.jpg
http://www.thecatconnection.com/newsletter/aug03b-cathumor-b_files/3747467_image008.jpg
http://ratemykitten.com/

Gil's LotD
http://www.tmia.com/photos/index.html Pictures of mutations from Three Mile Island
http://acp.eugraph.com/cephal/ How cephalopods communicate

Gil's LotD
http://www.livejournal.com/users/zestyping/97476.html Learn to defy gravity, or a least fake it
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7194 Be sure to see the videos.

Gil's LotD
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/pics/origami/penultimate/rhombicosidodecahedron.html It's a rhombicosidodecahedron, a shape with 20 triangular faces, 12 pentagonal faces and 30 square faces
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22019 Whoops, too late, no money for you. An expired offer to settle with Creative Labs

Magni Richardi copula Diis
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/institutions_connected/latinitas/documents/rc_latinitas_20040601_lexicon_it.html Italia est, abuintur http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Gil's LotD
Peep day!
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7288046
http://peepresearch.org/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000622033148/http://www.learnlink.emory.edu/peep/surgery.html
http://www.millikin.edu/staley/fluff/peep_research.html
I think Peeps are a delightful candy, and the pictures in the last one are great.

Gil's LotD
http://solardeathray.com/index.html The Solar Death Ray- for when you need to get those pesky Roman warships out of your harbor

Gil's LotD
http://appliedsilliness.com/voices.html A voice over guy gives a few free samples
http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ClipMediaID=53728&ak=null

Gil's LotD
http://www.bathroomgraffiti.com/article.php?rubrique=5&article=155&pos=1 the personal favorite handgun of LotD
http://www.canine-cookie.com/bagged.htm Gourmet dog treats

Gil's LotD
Happy Easter!
http://www.cuyamaca.net/bruce.thompson/Fallacies/fallacies_grid.asp A table of fallacies. Quite useful for would-be debaters
http://www.diabetesuffolk.com/Drugs/Exenatide.asp#_Toc55313336 A new treatment for Diabetes

Gil's LotD
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20030101/25049.html the ten secrets of master networker Keith Ferrazzi
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/montage%2Da%2Dgoogle/ Make a montage from Google image results

Gil's LotD
Because I forgot to send yesterday's link of the day there are three links today!
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050321_big_bang.html A small Big Bang has been recreated by scientists
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/W/worstjobs/index.html Some of the worst jobs in history
http://www.buffo.com/ This one has sound, you might want to turn your speakers down.

Gil's LotD
http://www.cepstral.com/cgi-bin/demos/general Now you can have you computer announce when your buddies come online with an even more lifelike voice!
http://www.damnfunnypictures.com/html/The-Burj-Al-Arab-Hotel.html The world's best hotel

Gil's LotD
http://web.media.mit.edu/~nanda/projects/clocky.html Technology is wonderful.

Gil's LotD
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=explosion+proof+refrigerator&sampleq=1 The story behind this one is that I was looking up some things on Froogle, and on the Froogle main page it has a list of the most recent searches. I saw explosion proof refrigerator, and had no idea there were such things. Anyway, this is pretty interesting, and the AdSense ads on the side link to more companies who make storage equipment.

Gil's LotD
http://www.cclonline.com/pc/hardware/software/thecclgame/ fun game, move your parts to the goal
http://tinywords.com/ Like autumn leaves, the composing of haikus, is very diffic

Gil's LotD
http://brandsoftheworld.com/ a site for exchanging brand logos
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ Can't identify a font? This site can help
http://screeningroom2.boardsmag.com/commercials/burgerkingfantasyranch60.mov a collection of some great commercials

Gil's LotD
http://www.alaskaalpineclub.org/IceWall/04-05IceWall7.html The ice wall has fallen. It was as if a thousand ice crystals cried out in terror, and then were silenced.
http://www.mayang.com/textures/Manmade/html/Metal/ If you ever wanted a metal computer background, nows your chance

Gil's LotD
http://www.smalldog.com/mydog/index.php A dog database. Let no one accuse LotD of being cat-only
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A218882 Handy Latin phrases to impress people