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9/9/06 Gil's LotD

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http://www.portablefreeware.com/ Portable versions of common programs (portable means that you can copy them to a flash drive and they will work off of that flash drive from any computer you plug it into). Very nifty!
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/bizfinance/biz/features/10816/index1.html A very interesting story about the creation and marketing of the Grey Goose brand of vodka.

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.

3/27/06 Gil's LotD

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http://www.damninteresting.com/watch-the-skies-in-the-year-52007-ad Apparently, there's a plan to send a satellite up around Earth and have it eventually reenter in fifty thousand years. You can submit a message to be put in the satellite, the link is at the bottom of the page.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8972478390980130889# A Japanese ad for noodles.