Gil's LotD!
10/11/11 Gil's LotD: Lese-majesty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lese-majesty Lese-Majesty is the crime of violating majesty, an offence against the dignity of a reigning sovereign or against a state.
10/10/11 Gil's LotD: The Shrine of Apple
http://shrineofapple.com/ Every Apple product, ever.
10/10/11 Gil's LotD: Learn Linux
http://linuxzoo.net/ LinuxZoo offers a tiny virtual computer and a set of tutorials for learning Linux basics free of charge.
10/9/11 Gil's LotD: Smells Like Teen Spirit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ciiCyxOJA Patti Smith's cover of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. I'm sending this link out because it's the first time I've ever been able to make sense of the lyrics. The cover is solid.
10/8/11 Gil's LotD crap: Bull Penis Canes
http://www.fashionablecanes.com/Bull_Organ_Penis_Walking_Cane.html A walking cane made out of a giant, hardened bull penis.
10/8/11 Gil's LotD: Mariachi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS_6-IwMPjM A Mariachi band playing for a whale.
10/7/11 Gil's LotD crap: Standgebläse
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=standgebl%C3%A4se "German word for a girl who's short enough to blow a guy standing straight up."
10/7/11 Gil's LotD: Subway drills
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/nyregion/deep-below-park-avenue-a-200-ton-drill-at-rest.html A massive drill bit used to create NYC subway tunnels will be left underground and encased in concrete.
10/6/11 Gil's LotD crap: Crap
http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sites3/Documents/501/Correct%20Position%20for%20Opening%20Your%20Bowels.pdf Supposedly this is an excellent way to poop.
10/6/11 Gil's LotD: Furniture arrangement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlDoSv6uDKQ UCLA mathematicians have created a system for automatically arranging furniture.
10/5/11 Gil's LotD crap: Duck penii
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bybYCwjkm_s Eversion of duck penii.
10/5/11 Gil's LotD: Trial by combat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_combat#United_States Trial by combat hasn't been explicitly outlawed in the United States yet!
10/4/11 Gil's LotD crap: Dr. Dick Chopp
http://www.urologyteam.com/?q=dr-richard-chopp Dr. Dick Chopp specializes in vasectomies.
10/4/11 Gil's LotD: Law French
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_French Law French is the language once used in English courts and gave English many of its legal terms.
10/3/11 Gil's LotD crap: Manhattan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SsSAaJ6BII Timelapses of Manhattan. Needs more Phillip Glass.
10/3/11 Gil's LotD: Graphs
http://circos.ca/ Circos is used to render genomes attractively. It can also handle any undirected graph. I successfully used it to create a diagram of all of my Facebook friends and their connections. Bonus link: OpenOrd is a plugin for another graph drawing software which can handle very large number of nodes.
10/2/11 Gil's LotD crap: Immigrant Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CO7FPU7a2g#t=28s Dread Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
10/1/11 Gil's LotD crap: The Land of Lisp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM1Zb3xmvMc#t=2m43s Every programmer should learn a little Lisp!
10/1/11 Gil's LotD: Mark Gormley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9J65j2GNzw Everything about this is great.
9/30/11 Gil's LotD: ResExcellence
http://www.resexcellence.com/ The long-defunct Mac website ResExcellence has returned with its old content. Back in the day this site had all kinds of information about the workings of Macintosh systems and I personally learned quite a bit from it in grade school and junior high. It certainly set me on the path that led me to learning everything I know about software.
9/27/11 Gil's LotD: Running of the Wieners
http://www.thepd.net/runningofthewieners.html I wish I could attend the Running of the Wieners.
9/26/11 Gil's LotD: Urban exploration
http://www.nopromiseofsafety.com/ Photo shoots from all kinds of places you're not supposed to visit. Unfortunately the fish-eye effect kinda destroys many of the pictures.
9/25/11 Gil's LotD: Swimming on the edge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVN9KnWy-H8 Swimming on the edge of Victoria Falls.
9/24/11 Gil's LotD: Solving laundry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caVo6EJFV8s Berkeley researchers have designed robots and software capable of folding laundry.
9/23/11 Gil's LotD: Game of Thrones recipes
http://innatthecrossroads.com/ Recipes from George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones fantasy series.
9/22/11 Gil's LotD: DHCP performance
http://cafbit.com/entry/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do An investigation into how Apple systems get a DHCP lease so quickly.
9/21/11 Gil's LotD: List of songs deemed the worst
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_deemed_the_worst Wikipedia's list of songs named the worst in opinion polls.