• Turn your lightbulbs into time capsules
    Write today's date + a small life moment on every lightbulb you install. Years later when it burns out, you'll get the sweetest surprise. Just discovered one from when my daughter was 14 months old!
  • 2025 is a square year (45 × 45)
    Did you know 2025 is a square year? That’s right! 45 × 45 = 2025. The last one was 1936, and the next won't be until 2116.
  • 12/3/45 is coming
    12/3/45 will occur on this day in 21 years. I put it on my Google Calendar, do you want it on yours? I'll send you an invite.
  • November as Nevermber: the month where never happens
    Welcome to Nevermber: where Black Friday sales, pumpkin spice, and endless gratitude make for the coziest kind of procrastination
  • How to make birthday wrapping paper with vintage library date stamp
    Do you have a friend or loved one who adores libraries? For their upcoming birthday, consider creating a unique and thoughtful gift by wrapping their present in custom-made wrapping paper featuring a design inspired by the date stamps found in…
  • Seeing what you tweeted ten years ago
    How to make a bookmarklet that will automatically search what you tweeted on this day ten years ago.
  • Tracks’ release dates on Spotify
    When you find a new song on Spotify, how do you know if it's a new song or one from ten years ago?
  • Sense of self through memories
    "Your sense of self is the understanding that yourself will remain the same through time."
  • Capturing time
    How in the world did this slow-motion video capture two moments at once? The cork just coming out of the bottle—AND—the moment when the cork hits the guy’s face? (look at the shadow on his shirt, you’ll see the cork…
  • Eiffel Tower time lapse and Twitter account
    This is one of my favorite things on the internet. The past 24 hours of the Eiffel Tower in a one-minute time lapse animation. This one-minute video file is constantly updated throughout the day to reflect the past 24 hours…
  • Einstein on time being a stubbornly persistent illusion
    What is time? Shortly before his death, Albert Einstein wrote: “The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” What is the context of this quote? I accidentally came across a discussion about this quote…
  • Two flipboard flips, separated by time, united by image
    My brother uses Flipboard to share links, so I’m going back onto this platform again. (My username on Flipboard is mattmaldre) A user’s “flips” page is sorted chronologically. One of my most recent flips is from five days ago, and…
  • The better date format: YYYYMMDD, DDMMYYYY, or MMDDYYYY?
    Do you ever put the date in your filename on your computer? If so, what date format do you use? Take today, January 9, 2020. Here’s some ways you could date your file: “Jan 9, 2020” “1-9-2020” “9-Jan-2020” “09-01-2020” “2020-01-09”…
  • The incredibly accurate time machine that jumps into the future
    Let’s say you have an event one week from today that you really want to be at. Now you can jump to the future and be at that event! The only catch. This time machine is kinda slow. To attend…
  • Time shouts for joy
    After making the last blog post, “A humidifier with water fills my heart with joy,” I was thinking that maybe it was too cheesey. But then the next day I across these verses in Psalms 65. It’s cool how even…
  • 292 more days until the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy
    The Olympic countdown is on! A shirt that says “292 more days” would be cool. Whenever you wear it, you could look up what would happen 292 days from now. Update April 9, 2022 — 6,193 days later: I like…
  • What would you bring back in time?
    Hmmm, if you could travel back in time, but could only bring one thing, what would it be? I’m looking out my window at a row of buses, and it would be fun to have a bus back in time.…
  • update on 20:02, 20/02, 2002
    There will be another palendromic time in 110 years! It will occur on 21:12 21/12 2112. (Dec 21, 2112 at 9:12pm). Damm, science better extend my like so i can be alive at a young age of 137 years old!…