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http://abeautifulwww.com/2007/05/20/visualizing-the-power-struggle-in-wikipedia/ How Wikipedia article data was visualized to show activity.

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/samplecode/ASCIIMoviePlayerSample/Introduction/Intro.html Sample code of a Mac program to render movies as ASCII. http://users.ugent.be/~jmaebe/ASCIIMoviePlayerSample/ Here is a color version.

http://matterhorn1959.blogspot.com/2006/11/sop-saturday-monorails.html The operating manual to an old Disney train.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409# A documentary on the Open Source movement.

http://archive.stsci.edu/hst/getting_started.html How to get access to the data from the Hubble Space Telescope.

5/21/07 Gil's LotD
After today I'm going back to 2 links per email for the summer.
http://www.bibliobuffet.com/bb/content/view/186/195/ Bacon bookmarks.
http://www.progressquest.com/ Progress Quest: sit back and let the RPG play itself.
http://www.hactrn.net/sra/vaxen.html A very good short story about a VAX machine in a data center full of unfamiliar operators.

5/18/07 Gil's LotD
http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net/ Read and edit Wikipedia as a filesystem! For Linux, of course.
http://www.psstpassiton.com/ Different teams work on designing and creating the same film in separate steps.
http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/subway/ Subways all drawn to the same scale, very cool.

5/8/07 Gil's LotD
http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ SAGE, open source math software. Does it go in the email field?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNp7QKugzZE Music video for a remix of Gay Boyfriend by The Hazzards. The original video is in the sidebar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9HaNbsIfp0 A cover of the HD-DVD key.

5/4/07 Gil's LotD
http://graphserver.sourceforge.net/ Software that when given a map of paths will find a route for you!
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/usgrid/ More map stuffs: Census data about density, race, and other population characteristics.
http://www.kiplinger.com/features/archives/2006/11/jobinterview.html Things not to say at a job interview. Also never go into the back room.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4 Incredible nerdcore rap. Be sure to view this video.
http://specgram.com/CLI.2/08.kawil.rerating.html An article by linguists rating the languages of the world.