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11/6/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Mon, 11/06/2006 - 4:41am

http://www.villagevoice.com/2006-10-10/news/planespotting/ A very interesting article about planespotters, people who track arrivals and departures of planes, and how a group of planespotters used the Internet to discover the CIA's system of secret prisons.

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11/5/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Sun, 11/05/2006 - 4:35am

http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/home_films_evolution_v2.swf This is a video that shows the steps taken by makeup artists and in Photoshop that creates the picture of a model for an advertising campaign.
http://serendipitouschat.com/ This is a website that pulls up a random webcam from Stickam.com.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GWPOPSXGYI A video of a tired kitten.

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11/4/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Sat, 11/04/2006 - 4:34am

http://getsongbird.com/ Songbird is a free, open source MP3 and media player for MacOS X, Windows, and Linux.
http://blog.fortiusone.com/2006/10/11/heat-maps-for-google-maps-aka-geoiq-mashup/ A story about implementing traffic information in a Google map.

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11/3/06 Gil's LotD: Explosions, Nachos

Submitted by gil on Fri, 11/03/2006 - 4:33am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1flVlL4Mf8k Incredible video of a depth charge being set off by the Navy. Huge explosion, be sure to see this video.
http://www.oed.com/learning/word-stories/nachos.html The story of the etymology of nachos.

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11/2/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Thu, 11/02/2006 - 4:28am

http://www.magicbluepill.com/vs.shtml Recipes that include Spam cut into the shape of a pill of Viagra.
http://www.propeller-island.de/rooms_neu/room_detail/12/index.php A gallery of pages all about different and crazy hotel rooms.
http://www.saltlamps.pl/ Buy lamps made of big lumps of salt online.

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11/1/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Wed, 11/01/2006 - 3:18am

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/31/060731sh_shouts The Ambien cookbook.

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10/31/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Tue, 10/31/2006 - 6:14pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Vishniac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designated_survivor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec_ossuary

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10/30/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Mon, 10/30/2006 - 12:12am

http://wheelof.com/whitney/index.php?var=v14 The Whitney music box, a hypnotic flash program. Be sure to see the other music boxes linked on the left.
http://www.openttd.org/en/ Open source implementation of the Traffic Tycoon game. It requires the original game in order to play although they are writing replacement code so everyone can use it.

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10/28/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Sun, 10/29/2006 - 12:09am

http://www.zefrank.com/sandwich/ The story of the mission to make an earth sandwich, which is to get two pieces of bread down on the earth on two exactly opposite sides of the planet.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1543658-1,00.html A letter from a Marine in Iraq.

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10/27/06 Gil's LotD

Submitted by gil on Sat, 10/28/2006 - 12:07am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yISqCAnROh8 Video of racing hard drive platters.
http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Pop-Art/9959 Photoshop tips for making a picture resemble the work of Roy Lichtenstein.
http://media-convert.com/convert/index.php This website offers to convert many different file types into other file types for you.

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