Archive

• Nov 21, 2022: Sorry. This way it's done and out of the way.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

• Nov 22, 2022: What this site is about.
  https://xkcd.com/1053/

• Nov 23, 2022: I think this is real, and you?
  https://www.redditmedia.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/comments/m16z60/the_magic_bottle/?ref_source=embed&ref=share&embed=true

• Nov 24, 2022: This has got to be the most overengineered item ever invented?
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher

• Nov 25, 2022: 1999 Russian Znamya space project.
  https://web.archive.org/web/20060808175720/http://www.space-frontier.org/Events/Znamya/

• Nov 26, 2022: Has Anyone Seen This Spy Plane?
  https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange-places/bluefire-main/bluefire/the-hunt-for-928/

• Nov 27, 2022: Cute pencil sharpener.
  https://grapee.jp/en/212754

• Nov 28, 2022: Lesson of the Pencil
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tHtpac5ws

• Nov 29, 2022: Ferromagnetic putty swallows magnetic cube
  https://i.imgur.com/DdVrzy0.gif

• Nov 30, 2022: Automatic pool stick vs. strangers
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTTXYxydOE

• Dec 1, 2022: Hovenring
  https://www.redditmedia.com/r/pics/comments/1p97m6/the_hovenring_is_a_suspended_bicycle_path/?ref_source=embed&ref=share&embed=true

• Dec 2, 2022: Sphere made of spirals
  https://i.stack.imgur.com/zzrYH.jpg

• Dec 3, 2022: A pretty good pasta shape 🍝
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiatori

• Dec 4, 2022: Absurd trolley problems.
  https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/

• Dec 5, 2022: A game of Tetris which always gives you the worst possible pieces.
  https://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html

• Dec 6, 2022: Robot making sure a toy train always has a bit of track to go on.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ItWevaF2Ag

• Dec 7, 2022: Universal Paperclips
  https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index.html

• Dec 8, 2022: Transit Maps: Apple vs. Google vs. Us
  https://site.transitapp.com/transit-maps-apple-vs-google-vs-us-cb3d7cd2c362/

• Dec 9, 2022: Random people can't draw bicycles. Can you?
  https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/

• Dec 10, 2022: A bunch of upright emojis such as ಠ_ಠ and (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
  https://looks.wtf/

• Dec 11, 2022: How mechanical watches work
  https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

• Dec 12, 2022: Squirrel parkour
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg5wznn3IBE

• Dec 13, 2022: How GPS works
  https://ciechanow.ski/gps/

• Dec 14, 2022: Townscaper: a procedural town building toy.
  https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/

• Dec 15, 2022: Stuff You Should Know podcast
  https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/

• Dec 16, 2022: Who Can Name the Bigger Number?
  https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html

• Dec 17, 2022: I lost the game!
  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/I_lost_the_game.jpg/440px-I_lost_the_game.jpg

• Dec 18, 2022: Apophenia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia

• Dec 19, 2022: Solving a Rubik's cube while juggling
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnJ94db_HAs

• Dec 20, 2022: makes your palms sweat
  https://old.reddit.com/r/SweatyPalms/comments/qzz9b5/alex_honnold_freesoloing_the_walls_of_el_patrero/

• Dec 21, 2022: The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48sCx-wBs34

• Dec 22, 2022: Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More Or Less
  https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-azidoazide-azides-more-less

• Dec 23, 2022: Aphantasia: How It Feels To Be Blind In Your Mind
  https://www.facebook.com/notes/2862324277332876/

• Dec 24, 2022: Improve your technical writing skills.
  https://developers.google.com/tech-writing

• Dec 25, 2022: Aluminum foil ball challenge!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_YZX1SgZ5Y

• Dec 26, 2022: Drawbridge
  https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/drawbridge

• Dec 27, 2022: My friends and I bought an island.
  https://tynan.com/island/

• Dec 28, 2022: Why George Danzig solved two unsolved problems.
  https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4rc505/til_that_after_running_late_to_a_class_george/

• Dec 29, 2022: "more magic" switch
  http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html

• Dec 30, 2022: Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
  https://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/

• Dec 31, 2022: Short Trip
  https://alexanderperrin.com.au/paper/shorttrip/

• Jan 1, 2023: Windows 95 🚀
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojP0BO6H4Qc

• Jan 2, 2023: Land of Extremes: Poetry of the Sonoran Desert
  https://nautil.us/land-of-extremes-poetry-of-the-sonoran-desert-238503/

• Jan 3, 2023: Journey across the polar regions of our planet.
  https://watchdocumentaries.com/frozen-planet/

• Jan 4, 2023: Perpetual broth
  https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/perpetual-broth

• Jan 5, 2023: Babysitting (podcast)
  https://www.thisamericanlife.org/175/babysitting

• Jan 6, 2023: Say Yes To Christmas
  https://www.thisamericanlife.org/576/say-yes-to-christmas

• Jan 7, 2023: How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil
  https://www.npr.org/2019/12/13/788003778/episode-216-how-four-drinking-buddies-saved-brazil

• Jan 8, 2023: The Salmon Legacy
  https://slate.com/podcasts/slate-money/2020/08/unusual-financial-history-salmon-family

• Jan 9, 2023: It's effin' science
  https://vimeo.com/352624828

• Jan 10, 2023: Steamboat Willie
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4

• Jan 11, 2023: No island font
  https://philipp.adelt.net/5/posts/2017/04/NoIslandsSans-a-sans-serif-font-for-cnc-cutting-and-stenciling/index.html

• Jan 12, 2023: How Not To Sort By Average Rating
  https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html

• Jan 13, 2023: The Infinitely Profitable Program
  http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55

• Jan 14, 2023: We can't send mail more than 500 miles.
  https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

• Jan 15, 2023: Fälschungserschwerende Schrift
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift

• Jan 16, 2023: Lunch atop a Skyscraper
  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper_-_Charles_Clyde_Ebbets.jpg

• Jan 17, 2023: T30 Hotel
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrIXzTdwY4Q

• Jan 18, 2023: Curiosity Self-Portrait
  https://mars.nasa.gov/system/downloadable_items/43152_PIA19142.jpg

• Jan 19, 2023: Gruinard Island
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island

• Jan 20, 2023: Millau Viaduct
  https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2021/06/engineering-places-millau-viaduct/

• Jan 21, 2023: Bridge Girder Machine
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKi8VWRDA_c

• Jan 22, 2023: How a 19th Century Math Genius Taught Us the Best Way to Hold a Pizza Slice
  https://www.wired.com/2014/09/curvature-and-strength-empzeal/amp

• Jan 23, 2023: 'Paper Towns' and Other Lies Maps Tell You
  https://www.treehugger.com/paper-towns-and-other-lies-maps-tell-you-4863749

• Jan 24, 2023: Llandegley International Airport
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llandegley_International_Airport

• Jan 25, 2023: A Little History of the World Wide Web
  https://www.w3.org/History.html

• Jan 26, 2023: Google vs Oracle
  https://harvardlawreview.org/2021/11/google-llc-v-oracle-america-inc/

• Jan 27, 2023: Blackcurrant Tango
  https://youtu.be/odCBml5TuNI

• Jan 28, 2023: Simpsons Universe Zoom Out
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycvlJ9XMd94

• Jan 29, 2023: 50,000 images of the night sky combined.
  https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/arer0k/i_took_nearly_50000_images_of_the_night_sky_to/

• Jan 30, 2023: Working Offgrid Efficiently
  http://100r.co/site/working_offgrid_efficiently.html

• Jan 31, 2023: Improvements
  https://www.gwern.net/Improvements

• Feb 1, 2023: Lizards map
  https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/1607526444112150528

• Feb 2, 2023: Time
  https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1572260363764400129

• Feb 3, 2023: What Not To Write On Your Security Clearance Form
  http://milk.com/wall-o-shame/security_clearance.html

• Feb 4, 2023: Tree swing
  https://www.zentao.pm/file.php?f=zentao/202204/f_96b5351a954913a9308777a4de919218&t=png&o=&s=&v=1649384977

• Feb 5, 2023: Number systems of the world
  https://web.archive.org/web/20180322114617/http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number.html

• Feb 6, 2023: Futuristic elevators
  https://youtu.be/T77ro_tG4KY

• Feb 7, 2023: Hitachi’s circulating elevator
  https://youtube.com/watch?v=ESo-0KXeCFo

• Feb 8, 2023: Dzhanibekov effect
  https://youtube.com/watch?v=1x5UiwEEvpQ

• Feb 9, 2023: Snow totals seem straightforward, but no
  https://granitegeek.concordmonitor.com/2023/01/25/how-much-snow-did-you-get-its-complicated/

• Feb 10, 2023: Arrows across USA
  https://www.dreamsmithphotos.com/arrow/

• Feb 11, 2023: Do you like treasure hunts?
  https://www.geocaching.com/play

• Feb 12, 2023: How does a refinery turn crude oil into products.
  https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/market-snapshots/2018/market-snapshot-how-does-refinery-turn-crude-oil-into-products-like-gasoline-diesel.html

• Feb 13, 2023: Important skills
  https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/uc9zxb/its_the_most_important_skill/

• Feb 14, 2023: The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
  http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

• Feb 15, 2023: Think like a bronze medalist, not silver
  https://sive.rs/bronze

• Feb 16, 2023: high-voltage installation in the Deutsches Museum
  https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/museum-island/exhibitions/electric-power/high-voltage-installation

• Feb 17, 2023: How to choose the perfect board game
  https://149455152.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/pickagamechart.jpg

• Feb 18, 2023: Suspending water bottle using 3 toothpicks
  https://www.tiktok.com/@zaneeagar/video/6830901294048283910

• Feb 19, 2023: 3D Line Art Engine
  https://github.com/fogleman/ln

• Feb 20, 2023: MIT Mystery Hunt Archive
  https://puzzles.mit.edu/huntsbyyear.html

• Feb 21, 2023: Kryptos
  https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a30750852/cia-kryptos-puzzle/

• Feb 22, 2023: All the ships in the World ocean
  https://vividmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ships.jpg

• Feb 23, 2023: Why a toaster from 1949 is still smarter than any sold today.
  https://www.theverge.com/22801890/sunbeam-radiant-control-toaster-t20-t35-vista

• Feb 24, 2023: Nuclear Power at McMurdo Station, Antarctica
  http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/reid2/

• Feb 25, 2023: Plasma Arc Gasification
  https://www.britannica.com/technology/plasma-arc-gasification

• Feb 26, 2023: The dark town that built a giant mirror to deflect the Sun
  https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170314-the-town-that-built-a-mirror-to-catch-the-sun

• Feb 27, 2023: Lock and Roll: Secrets from the Rear Triangle
  https://www.missionbicycle.com/blog/how-to-lock-your-bicycle

• Feb 28, 2023: MIT Guide to Lock Picking
  https://www.lysator.liu.se/mit-guide/MITLockGuide.pdf

• Mar 1, 2023: Irish Hollywood
  https://www.thejournal.ie/hollywood-sign-wicklow-3867190-Feb2018/

• Mar 2, 2023: Most ridiculous ping pong serves
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boFnmo_OXn0

• Mar 3, 2023: Hugi diskmag
  https://www.hugi.scene.org/

• Mar 4, 2023: Wankel engine
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine

• Mar 5, 2023: 507 mechanical movements
  http://507movements.com/

• Mar 6, 2023: International Fixed Calendar
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

• Mar 7, 2023: Swatch Internet Time
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

• Mar 8, 2023: Why It's So Hard to Catch Your Own Typos
  https://www.wired.com/2014/08/wuwt-typos/

• Mar 9, 2023: The night landscapes that the human eye cannot see
  https://dheera.net/photos/calnight/

• Mar 10, 2023: Why You Should Never Use Pixelation To Hide Sensitive Text
  https://dheera.net/posts/20140725-why-you-should-never-use-pixelation/

• Mar 11, 2023: Spurious Correlations
  https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

• Mar 12, 2023: The textfile directory
  http://textfiles.com/directory.html

• Mar 13, 2023: Project Gutenberg Australia
  https://gutenberg.net.au/

• Mar 14, 2023: Arrows Across America
  https://www.dreamsmithphotos.com/arrow/

• Mar 15, 2023: 25 best Seinfeld episodes
  https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-seinfeld-episodes/the-race/

• Mar 16, 2023: Redactle game
  https://redactlegame.com/

• Mar 17, 2023: How trains actually Turn?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhrS74gOYsM

• Mar 18, 2023: Infinite LEGO Domino Ring
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQhgiL3TqYQ

• Mar 19, 2023: Lineman - Most dangerous job in the World
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Ub4U_IqOE

• Mar 20, 2023: Derek Deville's Qu8k rocket
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvDqoxMUroA

• Mar 21, 2023: Which emoji scissors close
  https://wh0.github.io/2020/01/02/scissors.html

• Mar 22, 2023: Typography 101
  http://www.typography101.net/

• Mar 23, 2023: Monty Hall problem
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

• Mar 24, 2023: Two envelopes problem
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_envelopes_problem

• Mar 25, 2023: Zombie Risk
  https://web.archive.org/web/20060909034155/http://homepages.wmich.edu/~j3anders/zombierisk.pdf

• Mar 26, 2023: Safe Trailering Demonstrator
  https://youtu.be/fWd8ml9mFMo

• Mar 27, 2023: LockPickingLawyer
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfDPtt-bnAI

• Mar 28, 2023: Ignition!
  https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf