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TED SD: The Teddy Bear Story Gets a San Diego Ball

tedsandiego.com ↗ · Weird Finds · score 82.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

TED SD tells the story of how a president, a cartoon, and a toymaker helped turn one bear into “Teddy,” then invites San Diego to celebrate it twice a year.

Why it surfaced

The site has a wonderfully specific premise and unusually confident copy: “A president who wouldn’t pull the trigger. A cartoon that wouldn’t stop spreading.” Its centerpiece is The Teddy Ball on November 28, where visitors are asked to dress up and bring a bear.

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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem

August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.

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