5/28/06 Gil's LotD
http://www.afterapple.com/adam-knight/blog/2006/05/applecared-my-life-inside-apple-and-applecare A blog post of a guy's reflections about working in Apple's support division.
http://www.afterapple.com/adam-knight/blog/2006/05/applecared-my-life-inside-apple-and-applecare A blog post of a guy's reflections about working in Apple's support division.
http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/ Freeware planetarium software!
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/613/1 The real story behind NASA's special space pen, be sure to read this. It turns out NASA did not spend millions of dollars to design a pen that would work in space.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-162891478515007486# A bike travelling 100 mph down a mountain breaks.
http://pixelfonts.style-force.net/ Free pixel fonts.
http://www.williams.edu/biology/explodingflower/movies.html Videos of dogwood flowers springing open and shooting their pollen into the air in slow motion.
http://www.greatervancouverparks.com/HARRISONSandCastles01.html Giant sand castles!
http://www.damninteresting.com/eyewitnesses-to-hiroshima-and-nagasaki Eyewitnesses to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
http://www.hemmy.net/2006/05/02/space-cube-smallest-pc/ The world's smallest PC, about 2 inches cubed, and has USB, Ethernet, and VGA. I think it's very cool.
http://leoricksimon.blogspot.com/2006/04/telephone-fm-transmitter.html Instructions on how to make a device that will listen in on a phone line and transmit it over FM radio.
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/6384/top_azureus_plugins_revealed/ Very handy plugins for Azereus, a BitTorrent client.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2139555376132383479# A live version of Super Mario Bros.
http://www.archibase.net/archinews/7129.html Photos from inside a decomissioned Soviet nuclear submarine base.
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/hammerhead-the-lego-cd-thrower A Lego device to throw CDs.
http://www.tankchair.com/default.htm The TankChair: a wheelchair with treads.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/automatt/sets/72057594091674928 Cool pictures of New York.
http://www.acnc.com/04_00.html An introduction to RAID.
http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html? Random insults from Shakespeare, you rotten orange!
http://www.therawfeed.com/2006/04/nyc-manholes-turned-into-coffee-for.html An artist was hired to paint over manholes in NYC to make them look like coffee cups for an ad campaign.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-572077907195969915# The famous argument sketch by Monty Python.
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-home-gadgets Strange home gadgets.
http://wigflip.com/saywhat/ This website will let you place speech bubbles on photos.
http://davidweiss.blogspot.com/2006/04/tour-of-microsofts-mac-lab.html A tour of the tons and tons of hardware at Microsoft's Mac testing lab.