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The code which took Apollo 11 to the moon is available on GitHub

Black Hole Finder

Is My Blue Your Blue?

ileftmystuff.com

onlyvisitonce.com

Kayaking in a glacier and a waterfall drop in Svalbard, Norway

The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

Transforming desert into grassland by digging holes

Anthropic’s AI Prompt Library

An Experiment in Lust, Regret and Kissing

Red Bull Stalen Ros

Air Quality Stripes

Zooming into an iPhone chip

Terry Notary demonstrates how he channels different apes

Using a carpet instead of a wingsuit to BASE jump

A fire bubble

All Perseid meteors at once, seen from Fuji City, Japan

More cool needle felting stop-motion

vote.org

Massive mountainside artwork

Another zoetrope-style whiteboard spin art animation

If YouTube had actual channels

Visualization of the area of a dodecagon being 3(r²)

Levitating silver man trick revealed

The longest foosball table

Learn how to float on your back

Interactive Perseid meteor shower visualization

View from Earth if planets from our Solar System were as close as the Moon

How to properly drink a whisky

More Penn & Teller behind-the-scenes magic tricks

Find out if anyone’s been searching for you on Google Trends

A hammer looks like a person about to swing a baseball bat

A hammer looks like a person about to swing a baseball bat

Tim Walz Fixed Your Bicycle

Gaia: Here Comes the Sun

Kitchen Confidentials

A website that shows you the true size of countries

Timetree of Life

Public Work

The olympic torches over the years

Follow the crypto

Exaggerated moon

Exaggerated moon

Reconstructing 3D space from a single video

What Marty McFly’s guitar playing actually sounded like

A big chart of who lived when

Shooting precision

Pi Clock

Time-lapse of airplane traffic after the 2024 Crowdstrike disaster

Reverse Dictionary

2024 hi-res image of Earth

Code Galaxies

meow.camera

Antipodes map

2024 Solar Eclipse Simulator for Texas

The rise and fall of the most popular video games from 2004 to 2024

Life expectancy vs. health expenditure over time

Life expectancy vs. health expenditure over time

NASA’s Time Spiral

Penn & Teller explain ball and cups tricks

Footage from the 2024 US national jump rope competition

The number of endangered species is rising

The number of endangered species is rising

Calm down — your phone isn’t listening to your conversations. It’s just tracking everything you type, every app you use, every website you visit, and everywhere you go in the physical world.

Acronymy

Logarithmic scale of human experience of space and time in the physical world

Logarithmic scale of human experience of space and time in the physical world

IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS is the new captcha

Inside the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro

An exploration of the NFC chips in the disposable paper tickets of the Montreal subway system

Pixel editor for creating your own pixel font

Dude dresses up as different fonts

Outing alt-right bots masquerading as humans by telling them to ignore all previous instructions

NASA depiction of entering a black hole

Himmel über Karlsruhe

One Million Checkboxes

Blue Monday on vintage Casio instruments

FIFA video game moves in real life

ShadeMap

Stereo 3D footage of Jupiter and some of its moons

Greenhouse gas emissions across the food supply chain

Greenhouse gas emissions across the food supply chain

Climate Zones

These guys are not moving at all

“ALL STAR” Smash Mouth (in 10 styles)

Runnin’ with the Devil (Van Halen) – Just the non-words

Guy with no experience flying planes simulates having to do an emergency landing

Animation: Black Hole Star Shredder

Favoree

FreshRemote.Work

Monthly global average temperature by year, 1940-2024

Monthly global average temperature by year, 1940-2024

Graphing a song melody

XScreenSaver’s privacy policy

How to identify that light in the sky

How to identify that light in the sky

What Ukraine has lost during Russia’s invasion

Are you flying Boeing?

Fancy text font generator

A 37-year time-lapse of Earth

Visualization of Rafael Nadal’s matches at the Roland Garros

STAR WARS Original Trailer

JustServe

Finger fingernails

Finger fingernails

If Grey’s Anatomy was written by Gen Z comment section

How Roman emperor Nero powered his rotating dining room

An illustration of how much space we’ve surrendered to cars in cities

An illustration of how much space we’ve surrendered to cars in cities

GetAnyPlants

David Letterman | Are Those Your Drums?

Cones are messed up

netbeep

Conspiracy Theory Rock

Mallakhamb championships

The cost of the US Navy firing different weapons

Matching two Rubik’s cubes from memory

Dude nails it at competitive robot dancing

Knockoff brands in China

If The Smashing Pumpkins wrote ‘When I Come Around’ by Green Day

Adding windshield water droplets on a painting

Zoom into the Horsehead Nebula

Harry Potter translated to Scots

All Sky Moon Shadow

All Sky Moon Shadow

whereto.stream

Wes Anderson’s commercial for Montblanc

Simulation of the ISS flying by at low altitude

Escher defense

Escher defense

Interactive The floor is Lava game

Desktop Cat Cursor

Zooniverse

Interesting video of a crab molting

Falling Into Jupiter

The most common 4-digit PIN numbers

The most common 4-digit PIN numbers

Entire known universe squeezed into a single image (logarithmic scale)

Entire known universe squeezed into a single image (logarithmic scale)

Above the Dust – Burning Man 2022

What does the speed of light look like on earth?

The unfortunate decline of The Simpsons ratings

The unfortunate decline of The Simpsons ratings

Drum line dude with skills and panache

Vexillowlogy

Vexillowlogy

Acrobatic performance of falling off a staircase

1922 Nosferatu upscaled and colorized

Drone footage of a Phish show at the Vegas Sphere

This Coca-Cola can is not red

This Coca-Cola can is not red

Equinox

The Mirage casino’s betting odds on who shot Mr. Burns

The Mirage casino’s betting odds on who shot Mr. Burns

Term Typer

A visualization of the Korean War

Alpha Male Hunter

Weight loss time-lapse

Papyrus 2

The Etak Navigator

Waffle House Training – Pull Drop Mark Order Calling Method

Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tilt-shift demolition derby

2024 solar eclipse totality by drone

ManualsLib

Skyrim interactions in real life

Our Incredible Journey

Mario meets Pareto

AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

How to spot an AI-generated image

South Korean beatboxing champ

XKCD’s Machine

Goths up trees

JustTheRecipe

Quiver Quantitative’s politician search

SIde by side view of the Mona Lisa with the copy made by one of da Vinci’s students

Small scale pen plots

Animated Café Terrace at Night by Vincent Van Gogh

Puzzmo crosswords

Echo chess

Infinite Mac – NeXTSTEP

ASCII Theater

Flightradar24’s GPS jamming map

Click the color and not the word

Text-to-speech just getting owned by a huge number

Another stereogram movie

Moving Table Tennis

POV runs at Ice Cross Austria 2024

Lord of The Rings but it’s lofi beats

An assortment of old lighters

How Hollywood uses filters and colors to portray different countries in movies

Zelensky’s phone call to Macron to inform him that the invasion started

YieldFinder

Math Crossword

The Astro App

nobody.live

More dry-erase wheel marker art

Another time-lapse video showing the rotation of the Earth against the Milky Way

If AC/DC wrote ‘Stayin’ Alive’

Where do 8 billion people live?

Where do 8 billion people live?

feedle

Nahbucks

Voleflix

Submarine Cable Map

The motherlode

ambient.garden

2017 solar eclipse super zoomed in and in real time

About Ideas Now

Airfoil

Office Space Gifs

Checkerboard angles

ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer

Electoral College Pong Wars

Funny silent story competition winner

SDXL Lightning

Domino Fit

OK Go – Obsession

Fishmen optical illusion

Fishmen optical illusion

Every Time Zone

Galactic Compass

Endless steps in Chongqing

Gravity is just a habit

What makes the Spinning Rainbow Circles illusion work

Real 3D or Fake 3D

Overwhelming roof animations in a Korean mall

The Wisdom and/or Madness of Crowds

Eternal Sunset

Infinite monkeys

Spend Billionaire Money 💸 to Save the Planet 🌎 Or Not 💅

OpenStax

Stained glass smash

Name that Nation

Eagle POV flying over the Alps

Relativistic Spaceship

Offshore oil rig evacuation system

Mindsweeper Twist

Infinite Craft

Using iPhone’s panorama mode for creative photography

Plato Education

Old’aVista

What is the bulbous bow for?

NASA’s Webb depicts staggering structure in 19 nearby spiral galaxies

How to win the peg game

Chess pieces redesigned to be purely geometric attack directions

The Living New Deal

Reading QR codes without a computer

GLASYS – New World Unlocked

90’s Cursor Effects

Timelooper

Notable people map

Comic Book Plus

whoa.onrender.com

FlagLookup.com

Happy Daze

Colorword

Sit in Shade

Ideal egg boiling calculator

ambiphone

Breaking a ruler with the force of atmospheric pressure

Legal Lullabies

Phone falling drone shot trick huge crowd DJ

Underwater view of an earthquake

Man mimics how English sounds to non-English speakers

Alphabet on the back of a car

Alphabet on the back of a car

1D PAC-MAN

More colorized footage of what the world looked like around 100 years ago in various cities

Crossing the street to avoid someone

Whataaabout

Real-time MRI scan of a person talking

Do you know about Super Mario Bros.’ secret game over continue trick?

Talk Paper Scissors

Criterion Collection’s Room Tone 2023

US Flags [dot] Design

Guy draws complex portraits on his sweatpants

Time-lapse a spaceship’s view when leaving Earth

Tilt-shift farming

Radiation Dose Chart

Honest LinkedIn Notifications

Emoji Kitchen Browser

Dress David Rose

Carol of the Belmonts

Wikipedia’s Ship of Theseus page

UBI experiment results

Lyrical Garfield

Klifur

Voyager Golden Record

Custom-built LEGO ski slope

Footage of what an Octopus looks like when it dreams

The voice actors behind The Simpsons in 1992

how-did-i-get-here.net

LLM Visualization

Visual Anagrams

Tim Henson of Polyphia performing “Playing God” unplugged

Map of Tokyo in 3D

The 88×31 GIF Collection

Moon setting behind a volcano

Dragonfly liftoff captured at 5000 frames per second

A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop

Technology Connections Alec tries to get LED Christmas lights to look more like incandescent ones

A day passing on planet Earth seen from 36,000 kilometers by the satellite Himawari-8

drawfast.tldraw.com

What to do after falling into water with clothes on

DeArrow

Opening a can of mixed nuts in space

A dolphin reacts to Mariah Carey’s whistle note

Perfect pitch puzzle

A volumetric display using an acoustically trapped particle

Stereo Jupiter near opposition

Stereo Jupiter near opposition

A human white blood cell chasing a bacterium

Hard to know which floor you’re on in Chongqing, China

Washington Post story about the actual impact of the AR-15

Matching up mixed Rubik’s cubes

Rijkscollection

Most climate-resilient cities (2023)

A pendulum robot that can go 37mph and carry up to 220lb

Time-lapse of developing neurons inside a chick embryo

onlinesafari.tv

GUESS THE REAL FLORIDA MAN HEADLINES

RetroFlix

Changes in November Arctic sea ice thickness by decade

Changes in November Arctic sea ice thickness by decade

Light Goes On

The Unix epoch turns 1700000000 on Tuesday, November 11th

Car-opractor

Tips for if you’ve fallen through thin ice

Internet Artifacts

Man uses rocks to move megalithic blocks

NO CGI is really just INVISIBLE CGI

Music sales breakdown over the past 50 years

Music sales breakdown over the past 50 years

Keyboard banana

Tenochtitlan

diskprices.com

Macro views of various writing instruments

Visualisation of pi being irrational

Life expectancy vs. health expenditure per capita

Life expectancy vs. health expenditure per capita

Halloween 2023

Owls making vortices

Metal ball bearing bouncing on metal

Homer Simpson sings Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit, with a little help from AI

Another look at the Solar System bodies to scale

A brief history of “We Are Raising a Generation of Wimps”

Commercially available chairs in Star Trek

Dieter Rams’s palette

Ventriloquist sings a solo

Doodling over action aerial drone footage

A satellite view of the 2023 North American annular eclipse

320 lasers at an EDM show

Closeup footage of the Las Vegas Sphere pixels

Flappy Dird

A compiled list of the proper use of some idioms

Closeup of a water droplet bouncing on water

Rendered vs actual footage of the Ocean Cleanup project completing its first successful trip

A meteor burning up in Earth’s atmosphere, filmed from the International Space Station

store.app

A 360-degree view of the Moon’s surface in high resolution captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft

Michael Jackson covers Eat It by Weird Al (with a little help from AI)

High end designers’ logos are getting really boring

High end designers’ logos are getting really boring

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith playing along to a 30 Seconds to Mars song for the first time, and without hearing the drums

Connections by NYT

PDF debugger

Eat or Toss?

blocklayer.com

Guess My Movie

sub.rehab

Office Assistants

Blocks

The Histomap

The Sounds of Space

Flash Museum

Dadagrams

Weight to objects

Fall Foliage Prediction Map

The life cycle of pasta

The life cycle of pasta

Why can’t robots pass captcha tests?

A Day in London 1930s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added

Painting a modern art piece of the London skyline

Making a car with nothing but staples

ChatGPT uses tons of water

Major earthquakes in the 21st century

Major earthquakes in the 21st century

History of Rock paper scissors advantage

History of Rock paper scissors advantage

Seinfeld’s Elaine Dance Contest 2023

Colorado population density map

Colorado population density map

AI-generated art based on a tiny plastic model

How a tractor tire is retreaded

filmot.com

Swiss Mountain Coaster POV in 4K

Human record player for Weezer’s latest album

mcbroken

The History of Adults Blaming The Younger Generation

A clock where the time is in a song title

CT scans of coffee-making equipment

A galaxy collision simualtion compared, at different stages, to different galaxy collision images from Hubble

Cloth simulation in the browser

Nostril singing

iPhone alarm as a piano ballad

Rick Astley and the Foo Fighters perform “Never Gonna Give You Up” in the style of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Poop Fiction

IT – Tools

The very few places on land on earth that have antipodes

The very few places on land on earth that have antipodes

They’re Made out of Meat

A water simulation on your phone

How a road changed over thousands of years

The U.S. split into seven roughly equal regions by GDP (2022)

The U.S. split into seven roughly equal regions by GDP (2022)

A photo of the moon in front of the Earth

A photo of the moon in front of the Earth

Chat systems

Al Franken’s SUPPLY SIDE JESUS… animated

Hood Maps

How Disney changed Lilo & Stitch after 9/11

Pastmaps

Kindness as a signifier of intelligence

ffmpeg.app

Mapping internet fibre optic cables at the bottom of the world’s oceans

Yankee Stadium drone fly-through

Thriller without the music

noclip.website

How to cut a pepper with no seeds and no waste

nevertwenty.live

Ancient method of making ink

Cat accidentally scores a suspenseful movie scene

Things you do growing up

Tatooine Solar Graph Watch Face. ⌚

Tatooine Solar Graph Watch Face. ⌚

Artist makes cutouts and overlays them on the real world

Human evolution from protocells to people

Land use in the United States

Land use in the United States

How a cricket ball is made

A trippy video constructed from still photographs

Cooking for hundreds

The K-Pg boundary

The K-Pg boundary

I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!)

YEAH! YOU WANT “THOSE GAMES,” RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET’S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM

A demonstration of the density of mercury vs. water

Whiteboard spin art

The world’s highest swing

The four horsemen of passing back items

The four horsemen of passing back items

Time-lapse of a bird building a nest in a birdhouse

Forgotify

Star Wars Death Star trench run with a drone

A map of the United States scaled by population

A map of the United States scaled by population

Glass water slide in China

Another polymer clay figurine sculpting

Degrees What?

How the first stars split the Universe apart

Plasma tornadoes on the sun bigger than the Earth

the Free Movie

Happy trooper

Happy trooper

carsized.com

Coca-Cola beach seller remix

Chicxulub crater in Google search results

The Password Game

Motorcycle hand signals

Motorcycle hand signals

Leaving the solar system at the speed of light

A negative Yelp review reading

Visualized: The World’s Population at 8 Billion

Mofi

How many grooves can you get from a water drop?

Playing Pong on a rock wall with augmented climbing

The fraught journey to reach the Titanic

Guy parkours all around his house

A day in the life of a woke third-grade teacher, as imagined by a far-right politician

See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS

Inside the AI factory

Strong Bad reads AI-generated emails

Psychadelic color mixing a photo

Pluto’s ice mountains, frozen plains and layers of atmospheric haze

Mobile Phone Museum

The art of being shot to death

goblin.tools

Mashup of Lizzo and Linkin Park

AI versus corporate logos

Eagle catches fish and eats it mid-flight

Overhead view of a volcanic eruption

The effects of pressure on a water bottle

Audi’s Digital Matrix LED system

Taconomical

The Law of Large Numbers, or Why It Is a Bad Idea to Go to the Casino

Philosophy Bro

wiby.org

A website with just a pink cube that watches for a cursor

Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist

Boring report

Slide to Unlock

Chinese solar farm looks like a mountain covered in a blanket

Simulation: A Disk Galaxy Forms

Backlit artwork

Geological evolution of Colorado in the last 540 million years

I defragged my zebra

I defragged my zebra

Tiny watercolor reveal paintings

Clicking and dragging images using AI

The process of making a train wheel

OCEARCH Shark Tracker

Will robots take my job?

African languages’ click sounds explained

Ski parachuting

Thermal imaging of different colored t-shirts

Thermal imaging of different colored t-shirts

SING A NOTE

Body painting camouflage in different scenes

Scale of the Universe

A smooth freerunning routine

Can we stop dueting videos?

Digital koi pond

Why replanted forrests don’t create the same ecosystem as old-growth, natural forrests

The Roddenberry Archive

Escape Speed

Hold on, ladies!

How photographs were transmitted by wire in the 1930s

Chirper

The Nostalgia Machine

Star Wars by Wes Anderson Fan Trailer: The Galactic Menagerie

Space Elevator

An elevator in the One World Trade Center that shows the evolution of New York City

Another museum of endangered sounds

a view from my seat

Dude makes a bike with square wheels

Website that mixes air traffic control with lofi hip hop

“We Are America” by John Cena

Overhead view of changing the lap lanes in an olympic-sized swimming pool

What dinner will look like in the next 100 years, according to scientists

Pen plotter programmed to sync with Debussy’s “Clair de Lune”

Cool stop-motion city video

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