Complexity

• Predictions of P=?NP

• Why are kiwis so cheap?

• You are Likely to Live!

• Do we need a 37-cent coin?

• Americans consume 34GB of information per day

• Optical solution for the traveling salesman problem

• How to turn a sphere inside out

• Crayola's Law

• Self-printing Game of Life in C

• Magnets can affect one's sense of morality

• Air Space rebooting after volcano erupts

• 25 best Hangman words

• Pioneer 10 pulled back toward the Sun

• Unidentified Sound

• Venn's diagram for 4 sets

• What happens to Slinky when you drop it

• Evolving a Worm

• Game of Life Turing machine

• The Evolution of Computer Languages

• How to Use the Home Button

• Crypto shocker

• Impossible colors

• Should you buy lottery tickets?

• Strange face illusion

• Cutting Boarding Time in Half

• Non-alphanumeric Javascript

• 1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity

• The Strange Story of Dual_EC_DRBG

• Genetic Cars

• Prince Rupert's Drop

• Approximations of e

• Gravity Simulator

• Multiquine

Funny

• Microsoft redesigns the iPod packaging

• iPod made by Chinese Children to benefit African Children

• Math A Capella

• Kerning Definition

• Vista Speech Recognition Gone Bad

• Hilarious Google Books bug

• Kafka International Airport

• Upside-Down Ternet

• Woot and Quotation Rules

• Milk Treated Like Oil (this is not a joke)

• Converting Pi to Binary: Don't Do It

• Governments Loosening their Morals

• The Theory of Interstellar Trade

• So... you've invented a new programming language?

• Sushi-shaped Candy Kit

Great Ideas

• FLIP Ship

• The Principality of Sealand

• Ring/Key combination (local image)

• High Frequency ringtones

• Ink Calendar

• Gyrofocus Fireplace

• Mechanical Reproduction of digitized speech on a piano

• "I'll have what he ordered"

• "Invisibility" "cloak"

• Core War: Two Programs Enter, One Program Leaves

• Content-aware Fill in Photoshop

• World's first aperiodic tiling with a single shape

• The Black Hole

• Non-transitive dice

• Paper-based system for encrypting names into secure passwords

• Tiny Font

• Heat Sensitive Paint

• Dish Draining Closet

• Headphone quick-folding mechanism

• Fading highlighter

• Making ironing clothes easier

• Puzzle: a disappearing man

• Turn heat from cooking into electricity

• Rivet Spacer

• Retro Term

Progress

• Levitating Semiconductor on a Möbius Strip

• The X-Jet

• Glass slivers that store data forever

• Desktop Printer Technology Used to Lay Down Regenerated Skin Cells

• The World is Actually Getting Better

• First-Ever Footage of a Thought Being Formed

• Memristors

• World's Most Perfect Spheres

• Bokode: Tiny tags

• A Completely New State of Matter

• Decomposing plastic with bacteria

• Anechoic Chamber

• Spray-on Liquid Glass

• Composite Metal Foam

• Rewriteable printer

• Thorium

• Perfluorohexane

• Biggest Offshore Wind Turbines

• Vanishing fruit labels

• Extracting video from the brain

• Carbon-eating bacteria

• OrcaM reconstruction sphere

• 30-story building constructed in 360 hours

• It takes 12 atoms to hold a bit

• A planet made of water

• Radio Waves that promise infinite bandwidth

• Tree that makes dirty water drinkable

• Stephenson's Steam Engine made entire out of glass

Battery "Breakthroughts" (except we rarely hear about any commercialization...) 

• Solar cell efficiencies

• VIbration-charged batteries

• Olivine-type batteries

• New battery with 2x the capacity and 1/2 the cost

• New lithium ion battery strategy

Tools and Gems

• CLI improved: Better command line tool suite

• A Heavily Documented version of Linux

• wtfevolution: Documenting evolution's "hiccups"

• Pictatulous: Get a palette from an image

• Flightaware: Live flight tracking

• LocalHarvest: Find farmers' markets and other locally-grown food

• unnecessaryquotes: Blog of "unnecessary" quotes

• A Gentleman's Guide to Purchasing a new TV

• WattzOn: Personal energy management

• whichbook: Book recommendations

• simplynoise: White noise generator

• identifont: Identify a font by answering a few questions

• goosh: The unofficial google shell

• amiga nostalgie: Amiga emulators, games, utilities

• rulesofthumb: Every rule of thumb in one place

• olds: Make photos look old

• wordoid: Find a wordoid domain name

• whatfontis: Identify a font by uploading an image

• TileMill: Make beautiful interactive maps

• chartjunk: a webfont for inline data series

• therestartpage: restart screens (actually works!)

• flightradar24: live air traffic

• tagxedo: word cloud with styles

• So You Need a Typeface

• TinEye Labs: Multicolor Search Lab

• ZIPskinny: U.S. Census data

• Color Scheme Designer

• subtlepatterns: 300+ Photoshop patterns

• SLR Camera Simulator

• Color Name and Hue

• A Collection of Mobile UI Elements

• Dark Sky: A New Kind of Weather App

Explore

• Go back in time to the Byzantine Empire

• There's an Owl on the Dollar Bill

• Netflix has a Test Movie!

• Love Etc.: A nod to retro gaming

• Paper Art

• The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!

• Beautiful tilt-shift time-lapses

• La Linea

• Plush animals

• How Different Groups Spend Their Day

• Just War

• The Sayano-Shushenskaya dam accident

• Obama's Terrifying Unchanging Smile

• Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture reconstructed from 1000 cellphones, 2000 text alerts

• Cell Size and Scale

• The History of One Manhattan Block

• From the Tip Top of the Burj Dubai

• Clouds

• Going West – Book Animation

• Showreel of screen design work

• Adrift

• Zen Photon Garden

• Crazy Patents

• World's Most Beautiful Bookstores

• Opcode Tables

• Beautiful Music Album Covers

• Most Creative Indoor Staircases

• Weird Book Room

• Staggering Beauty: Wiggle Wiggle

• Digital Rube Goldberg Machine

• How Segregated is Your City?

• A 9th Century Stepwell

• Photo that destroyed the camera lens

• Miniature Living Room inside a PC

• Headblowing Animation

• Mysterious Spaceship-Shaped Object Traveling at 11,000MPH

• Online Color Challenge

• Magnetic Movie

• Machines

• Another Tilt-Shift Time Lapse

• La Cabina by Antonio Mercero

• Visual Complexity

• Visualizing the commit history of the Python scripting language project

• Global Warming

• Wolfram Tones: Generate a composition

• Vintage Ad Browser

• Wooden Marble Machine

• 8 Bit Cities

• Music video animated using dice as pixels

• Stephen Walter, 'The Island'

• Step into the sensory box

• Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010

• The Biggest Company You've Never Heard Of

• Sensology

• js1k

• drunkmenworkhere

• The Most Famous photo in the history of physics (and a movie)

• Visualization of the operation of Atari 2600 code

• TimeScapes

• Above Everything Else: all CGI

• Love & Theft

• NYC - Mindrelic Timelapse

• The Frontier Is Everywhere

• Evidence for Effectiveness of Supplements

• What Falling Down a Mountain Looks Like

• The Astronomer's Dream

• Watch Fish Eating at 1,000 Frames per Second

• Magnetism is Mesmerizing

• A Pretty Wicked Optical Illusion

• Feltron Annual Reports

• Water Fountain Animates in Real Life

• Flying over Earth

• Space Aurora Flyby

• Averia: The Average Font

• New York from One Single Point

• Isla (in memoriam)

• Riding a Dirt Bike on a Mountain Ridge

• Tornadoes on the Surface of the Sun

• Address is Approximate

• 'Brinicle' ice finger of death

• A Mesmerizing Insane Asylum Video

• The World's Biggest Cities, with No People

• Bullet Time Light Painting

• The Simpsons Theme Song, Sung by One Person

• London Flyover

• Portraits in Dramatic Time with Alan Rickman

• Compressed Experiments

• The Most Complex Unicode Characters