2025
May 2025
- DIY synths database
- Excerpt from Conan O’Brien’s Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech
- Harriet Tubman Stamp
- Mercator: Extreme
- 368 Chickens
- 404 Page Design Gallery
- Aspect Ratios with Sinners Director Ryan Coogler
- Animals Made From Circles
- Flight Aware’s MiseryMap
- Hook Theory’s: Tabs that show the theory behind songs.
- Using a Trackman to play Mario Golf
- Sealed Fate Candy Packets
- The Unexpected Legend of WD-40
April 2025
- Rolex: The Complete History and Strategy
- Algorithms are breaking how we think
- Streamin
- 1,892 different flight attendant uniforms from 633 airlines
- The Decline of Bands
- A replacement for AD and BC
- The Largest Collection of Free Stuff on the Internet!
- 800+ Movies/Shows within Movies/Shows…(?)
- Checkbox Race
- New map of landscape beneath Antarctica unveiled
- The cars in ‘Severance’
- What are your beliefs about the nature of reality?
- The art of DJing: Avalon Emerson
- The New Swiss Passport
March 2025
- A lot of spins
- The Case for Bad Coffee
- WikiTok
- WikiTimeline
- Floor 796
- The Strangest Nokia Designs: Top 10 Concepts That Never Launched
- See what Google sees
- 8 Hours of Music to Refine To
- Kevin Kelly’s 50 Years of Travel Tips
- Sanborn Fire Maps
- The story behind the only known photo of Concorde flying at Mach 2
- The world’s most breathtaking abandoned sites
February 2025
- Art of the Title
- Network of Time (i.e. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon calculator with photo evidence)
- Rugs that look like dogs
- Man-made structures now outweigh the mass of the living world
- Learning Synth - Playground
- Pottery with Lego
- We Don’t Need More Cynics. We Need More Builders.
- Gasoline Car Review
January 2025
- PBS Retro
- Barcodes Jamming
- The Cube Rule of Food Identification
- FIFA Puskas Awards 2024 - Nominees
- 52 things I learned in 2024
- How Honeycrisp Apples Went From Marvel to Mediocre
- Hand drawn VHS labels
- Maps of city roads
- The Neighborhoods by Rob Stephenson
- Hyper Realistic Pencil Drawings of Metallic Objects by Kohei Ohmori
- The Faux Scientific Taxonomy of Occlupanids (AKA Bread Clip), More on reddit
- One minute in a park
2024
December 2024
- How It Went
- 77 cocktails visualized
- The case of the 500-mile email
- Project Subway NYC
- Passport Photos
- Title Drops
- Is the Love Song Dying?
- A Book That Was 51 Years Overdue Was Just Returned To A Massachusetts Library
- 44 Nostalgic Photos Of When Pokémania Took Over The World
- How to turn a vintage camcorder into a hypnotic makeshift fractal flight simulator.
- Bubbles
- Briefly: A short story
November 2024
- The Name of Things You Probably Didn’t Know
- What’s up with Gen Z’s socks?
- The Most Popular Halloween Candy
- Green Day’s Dookie Demastered
- Find your Letterboxd besties
- Unofficial Disney Character Hunting Guide
- You kids think you’re punk? Then name two SR-71 albums.
- Abortion Mazes
- The Grocery List Collection
- University of Cambridge’s Misinformation Susceptibility Test
- What tennis pros look at when they pick a ball
- Wait, NFL players eat how many Uncrustables?
- Table tennis at reduced speed
- How Microchips are Made
- “If Adam Picked the Apple”
- Jessica Drenk Transforms Thousands of Pencils into Organic Vessels
- Scrambled maps
- Rulers of the Ancient World
- Digg: The internet’s homepage
- Diggnation Rebooted
October 2024
- Can Boeing Starliner astronauts vote from the ISS? Yes. Make sure you can too
- MLB team’s revenue sources
- The Evolution of Baseball’s Perfect Lineup
- “TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE” got us to the moon
- Is My Blue Your Blue?
- The real size of things
- Austin Mann’s iPhone 16 Pro Camera Review: Kenya
- RadioShack Catalogs
- Every Outdoor Basketball Court in the U.S.A.
- Lake Chippewa’s floating island that has to be boat-pushed every year
- The Secret Inside One Million Checkboxes
September 2024
- The Murky World Of Counterfeit Rolex
- Dark Patterns Hall of Shame
- Art But Make it Sports
- Brain cell looking for a connection
- 29,000 Feet Up Mount Everest with a Drone
- Mystery Search
- Blockbuster Video VHS insert template
- Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle
- The Insane Engineering of the Game Boy
- The “crappy” math behind the Calories
- James Mollison’s series of music fans outside concerts
- Shutterbug
- Reverse Engineering TicketMaster’s Rotating Barcodes
August 2024
- Champagne Bottle Sizes and Names
- Google’s Leap Smear
- How many days out is the temperature forecast accurate?
- Kermit sings ‘Gin and Juice’
- The Day Prince’s Guitar Wept the Loudest
- Physicists Have Created The World’s Most Fiendishly Difficult Maze
- The most religious, and religiously diverse, places in America
- Swear words and profanities from around the world.
- What beats rock?
- Banned gymnastic skills
- A Guide to Olympic Torches
- Incentives for Olympic medalists by country
- The Physics of Flight, explained simply
July 2024
- The (World Series Champion) Texas Rangers are the only team in MLB who do not celebrate a Pride Night, more from last year
- America’s best decade, according to data
- A 477 mile long lightning bold
- Motion capture actress
- The Fire Hydrant Directory
- Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets
- The mysterious tyranny of trendy baby names
- Words you can spell with a calculator
- Dear next visitor…
- Free coloring books from museums and libraries
- An FM radio Game Boy cartridge
- Best Months to Visit Each National Park
- Explain That Stuff
- 35 Medieval Expressions Invented by Chaucer
June 2024
- The 2024 Uber Lost and Found Index
- From Egg to Adult
- Most and Least Common 4-Digit Pin Numbers
- Train Conductor Finds Himself Caught In Tornado’s Path
- Things that sound like Chewbacca
- Visualizing the 200-Year History of U.S. Interest Rates
- On the Implausibility of the Death Star’s Trash Compactor
- Time-Lapsed Pencil Sketches
- Air Travel Design Guide
- Babe Ruth ‘called shot’ jersey to be auctioned in August
- Analyzing my text messages with my ex-boyfriend
- Cubic millimeter of brain mapped in spectacular detail
- How I Made Wine Out of Mountain Dew
- Why You Can Hear the Temperature of Water
May 2024
- Base 10 is Not a Good Base
- One touch volleyball
- Starlink Map
- How heterosexual couples in the US have met, through 2021
- Truncate: A word game
- A robot dog that lights shit on fire
- What happened to Endor?
- Map of the Movies
- The Solution of the Zodiac Killer’s 340-Character Cipher
- Skaters, bikers, motorbikes, and even a parkour dude attempt to jump 25 stairs
- This Woman Deconstructs 100-Year-Old Books To Restore Them
- A mechanical calculator cut in half
- Viewing the 2024 Solar Eclipse Through a Short-Term Rental Lens
- Baby Penguins Jump Off 50-Foot Cliff in First-of-Its-Kind Drone Footage
- 1,180 drawings of plant root systems
- The Database of Useful Biological Numbers (Homo Sapiens)
- Hockey goal off of the goalie’s mask
- Crow Flies
- Inside the Super Nintendo Cartridges
- The failure of the Domino’s 30-minute delivery guarantee
- Tips for Linking Shell Companies to their Secret Owners
April 2024
- Fresh Eggs
- Just a Good’ole Laugh
- World’s Fastest Camera Drone VS F1 Car
- ‘Beer me, Obi-Wan'
- Quick Toggling Closed Captioning on Apple TV
- How Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Jethro Tull Helped Make ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’
- Human or Not
- 3D Printed Full-Size Macintosh
- Mind the Game with LeBron James and JJ Redick
- James Collier Demonstrates Polyrhythms with One Hand
- When Your Vision and Hearing Decline with Age
- Hand Signals at The Stork Club
- Dog Poop Golf
- “The Quack-Attack Is Back, Jack!"
- Weather Forecasts Have Become Much More Accurate
March 2024
- 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
- Our Rodent Selfies, Ourselves
- M. Night Shyamalan’s budget for “The Woods”
- FAA Aviation Maps
- Can “Doom” run on a cell?
- Why Legal Immigration is Impossible for Nearly Everyone
- iFixit’s Apple Vision Pro Teardown
- Jimi Hendrix Stories Told on the Stern Show
- Unified Theory of Fucks
- “It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?"
- A hot wing’s trip through your body
- Are Capybaras fish?
- A compass that points to the center of the galaxy
- How to get a sourdough starter from 1847
- Things Unexpectedly Named After People
- The Definitive Ranking of the Players From the ‘Mighty Ducks’ Franchise
- A single year on Pluto is longer than the whole history of the US
- Meet Heisler, TV’s Favorite Beer That Doesn’t Even Exist
February 2024
- 360°Spinning Guitar
- Used Firetrucks aren’t too terribly expensive
- Ben Clymer Presents: Ep. 09 - The Golf And Watches Episode With Keith Mitchell
- I’m an Ultrarunner. Taylor Swift’s Treadmill Workout Wrecked Me.
- Horizontal Pac-Man
- A Forgotten Vault Where Michelangelo Hid and Sketched For Months Opens for the First Time
- The Art of Misdirection
- Reformed mobster went after ‘one last score’ when he stole Judy Garland’s ruby slippers from ‘Oz’
- A Guided Tour of Apple Vision Pro
- Yams at Walmart
- Bill Gates Could Be A Trillionaire Today If He Had ‘Diamond-Handed’ His Original Microsoft Shares
- 2024 Presidential Election Cheat Sheet
- Add cooked.wiki before a recipe URL
- Happy 40th to the Macintosh
- MLB franchises by percentage of seasons with at least one Hall of Famer on their roster
- Neon Knives: Grab a partner or a co-worker (tell them about this newsletter) and have a 1v1 deceitful death match
- Reading QR Codes Without a Computer
- These Are the Notorious NSA Furby Documents Showing Spy Agency Freaking Out About Embedded AI in Children’s Toy
January 2024
- Kottke’s 52 Interesting Things I Learned in 2023
- Piano cover of MIA’s Paper Planes
- Has ‘Gay Voice’ always been a thing?
- Ask a Sober Oldster
2023
December 2023
- Travel Score
- Replacing a pool cue tip
- Astronauts dropped a tool bag during an ISS spacewalk, and you can see it with binoculars
- The 2023 Uber Eats Cravings Report
- Where in the world do men sit down, or stand up, to pee?
- Soccer goalkeepers literally see and hear the world differently
- Glass fighting
- Annular Eclipse 2023 full Ring of Fire Timelapse in 8k
- “I built a trading bot that buys stocks that are being bought by politicians."
- Now And Then - The Last Beatles Song (Short Film)
- How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk, My Results
- The Science Behind Gordon Sargent’s Insane Swing Speed
- DP World Tour plays Keepy Uppy
- What is the time signature of the Bluey Theme?
- The Mayflower Passengers
- My Pi Day
- What’s up with cuffed pants?
- A Secret Room with Drawings Attributed to Michelangelo Opens to Visitors in Florence
- Nom Nom Nom. What’s the Deal With Cookie Monster’s Cookies?
- Berndnaut Smilde’s Nimbus – What are his clouds all about?
- Sharks are old
November 2023
- Every Type of Railcar Explained in 15 Minutes
- Flappy Bird implemented in MacOS Finder
- Talking Watches with Ed Sheeran, Hosted by John Mayer
- Shop for a private island
- The Economy (Taylor’s Version)
- Rounded Corners
- Movie Grid
- Can You Win This Game of Rock, Paper, Scissors?
- Bird Migration Explorer
- Bill Braun’s hyper-realistic paintings
- Why Are Video Games So Big? What’s Inside the 100 GB?
- NameGrapher
October 2023
- This USB button helps Jeopardy! contestants get their buzz on
- Pluto: 1994 vs 2019
- A Journey to the End of Time
- So You’re an American? A Guide to Answering Difficult Questions Abroad
- Ballpark cost for some artists to perform your event
- A clock where the time is made of news headlines
- Record-breaking Super Mario Bros. speedrun approaches robotic perfection
- A literary history of fake texts in Apple’s marketing materials
- Made me Psymile
- Every time I buy ice cream my car won’t start.
- The most-visited English Wikipedia articles, updated daily.
- Can you bring a lightsaber on a plane?
September 2023
- A Chronological List of WWII Movies
- The most savage Mario Kart play I have ever seen
- New Word Order
- The high-tech, super-secure government warehouse where old cash dies
- What-song
- Why do old books smell so good? and the Mariko Aoki phenomenon
- How to watch football like an expert from the comfort of your couch
- How playing Jar Jar Binks led to abuse, near death – and saving Baby Yoda
- Wear All You Want, They’ll Make More
- How Are Webb’s Full-Color Images Made?
2022
2021
2020
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2018
December 2018
- Eiffel Tower Copyright Law
- Making of Apple’s Holiday Commercial
- A Journey Around Earth in Real Time
- Former CIA Chief Explains How Spies Use Disguises
- Free Solo
November 2018
October 2018
- Accuracy of Movies Based on a True Story
- Lightning Strike Density Map
- Oll Korrect
- The ESPN Logo Quiz
September 2018
- What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?
- A Comprehensive Guide to Yellow Stripey Things
- Where Do Sports Terms Come From?
August 2018
- How Tree Trunks Are Cut to Produce Wood With Different Appearances and Uses
- What Made Darth Vader Visually Iconic
- Dog Photographer of the Year
- What a Conductor Actually Does on Stage
July 2018
- 70 People Reveal How To Count Money in Their Country
- Travel Photographer of the Year
- I Delivered Packages for Amazon and it was a Nightmare
June 2018
- The population of Manhattan, hour by hour
- VR Soccer
- An interactive map of the locations in Homer’s The Odyssey
- The Unseen Collection at the National Museum of Natural History
- The First 40 Years of Personal Computing
May 2018
- The Various Canine Gaits Animated with Tracked Paw Prints
- Footage of Choreography for Rocky (1976)
- America’s Quietest Routes
- Tour of the Moon in 4K
April 2018
- The Big Lebowski Filming Locations
- How Hitchcock Kept Psycho a Secret
- This Look Inside Spike Jonze’s Apple Ad Is as Fascinating as the Film Itself
- I’ve Played a Game of Tag for 23 years
March 2018
- What Smoking 300 Cigarettes Does To Your Lungs
- Swat at a Mosquito and It Could Remember You for Days
- Fonts of a Huy Fong Sriracha Hot Sauce Bottle
February 2018
- Dunkirk re-edited as a Silent Film
- Animal Heartbeats
- The Differences Between A $5,000 Watch And An $85,000 Watch
- How the Human Digestive System Works
- Time Lapse of a Man Building a Cabin from Scratch
January 2018
- The 100 Greatest Props in Movie History, and the Stories Behind Them
- Google’s Year in Search 2017
- How to Read Sheet Music
- Drone’s Eye View of NYC
- Google Maps’s Moat
- Building ‘Hey Arnold’s’ City
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