Researchers Giuliana Panieri and Jonathan T. Copley found an underwater Arctic oasis 2.5 miles below the surface. Let’s hope the US president doesn’t try to claim this too.
Some arbitrary facts about the number 68
Give it up for 68!
From Hackaday: Twelve Days Of Christmas performed by an 80s speech chip
The BBC on Christmas in Antarctica
Ice ice santa baby
If you prefer Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, there might be a neurological reason for that
Swapping the red and green for blue.
The Christmas whales of Newfoundland
Community is the key.
pixel_mapper uses Python and computer vision to map out tree lights
Twinkle, twinkle, pixel maps! Spread the lights so there’s no gaps!
A funny-in-hindsight list of 9 Legacy Technologies We Want to Kill originally written by Maximum PC magazine in 2009. Scroll lock in 9th place is great but BIOS at number 1 is honestly the cherry on top.
Now you can put Uranus on your Christmas tree thanks to Old World Christmas (it’s a little bauble).
The top 11 posts of 2025
A wide variety of top performing posts this year!
ROT13 is a rudimentary letter substitution cipher that replaces a letter with the 13th letter after it in the Latin alphabet. rot13.com converts regular text into the ROT13 format.
How fast can you go with an underwater jet pack?
As one commenter noted, “the concept is flawed. You don’t have to be faster than a shark, you just have to be faster than the guy next to you.”
Deck the ores with UV lighting!
Jesus Christ, Marie!
PHP developer Joppe De Cuyper made a dynamic F1 logo lightbox that indicates when there are safety cars, red flags, and green flags with corresponding flashing colours. (via)
Santa needs your help via Matthew Scroggs's 2025 advent calendar
Not long to go!
The maths of Christmas
It’s the most wonderful times of the year!
Chinese auto regulators want to ban retractable car door handles
Reject modernity, embrace tradition!
In October, researchers found 30 new underwater species including a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge: Its spherical form is covered in tiny hooks that trap prey, a clear contrast to the gentle, passive, filter-feeding undertaken by most sponges.
(h/t clover)