The Frying Pan: Terrible Inventions, Carefully Workshopped
An archived podcast in which Steve Gadlin pitches deliberately awful inventions to WGN Radio listeners.
Across every issue
Search
Titles, domains, summaries, categories, signals, dates, and editorial-interest scores across the entire published catalogue.
Results
124,063 catalogue cards
-
-
Galil’s Kosher Beef Map for Peru
A Spanish-language guide that maps 18 kosher beef cuts to their cooking methods and 36 step-by-step recipes.
-
Gente Allegra Clown ODV: volontari con il naso rosso
Un'associazione di clownterapia di Potenza porta attività, gentilezza e gioco in ospedali, RSA, scuole e altri luoghi della Basilicata.
-
Decal, the local-page-to-Figma reconstruction tool
Decal turns local websites, dev-server routes, and downloaded HTML into editable Figma layers rather than flat screenshots.
-
Metis — The vocabulary app for words you had to look up
Metis turns searched words into bilingual vocabulary cards, then brings them back through spaced repetition.
-
PixelNook Keeps Image Work on Your Device
A browser-based image toolbox for compressing, resizing, converting, cropping, and removing metadata without uploading files.
-
StayUp, a small Windows app with a very clear idea
StayUp keeps a Windows PC awake for a chosen duration, until a clock time, while a selected app runs, or on a recurring schedule.
-
Hidden Trails Documents
A searchable archive of 58 documents and 773 pages from a Texas homeowners association.
-
Hmong Memorial, a family-directed funeral banner studio
A memorial-banner creator that combines family photos, scene instructions, and editable names, dates, and messages into a downloadable wide-format design.
-
HouseholdMath Turns a House Price into a Household Burden
A browser-based calculator estimates the monthly cost of a US home, the equity built over time, and the household income needed to carry it.
-
Industrial Calculators, for the Engineering Math You Actually Need
A free browser-based collection of 82 mechanical engineering calculators covering design, manufacturing, fluid power, GD&T, CNC, and shop work.
-
Inergy: A campaign brain for games with homemade rules
A tabletop campaign tool that reads a GM's messy notes, learns their custom rules, and helps maintain the world during play.
-
In Good Care, for the long days of pet care
A pet health and medication tracker for people caring for older or chronically ill cats and dogs.
-
Iron Nest’s Artillery Manual for People Who Keep Missing
A tactical guide to Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator, combining 15 mission walkthroughs with a ballistics calculator, ammunition reference, triangulation advice, and endings coverage.
-
Japan Niche Lens Looks Beneath the Brands
An independent multilingual publication profiling the manufacturers, component makers, and industrial specialists that keep Japan—and much of the world—running.
-
HalfStep, a practice log that keeps the take
HalfStep turns musicians’ practice sessions into a recording-backed progress log, moving pieces through four stages from Learning to Performing.
-
JudgeRail puts strategy games on the same track
An editorial desk compares nine free-to-play Android strategy and tower-defence games using the same four criteria.
-
Kana Lens Keeps Your Kanji in View
A Chrome extension that captures Japanese from your screen, saves kanji with their original sentences, and turns new-tab pages into review sessions.
-
Before-Buying Meeting: Choosing the One That Fits Your Home
A Japanese baby-product review site that compares high- and low-rated customer reviews to identify the decisive trade-off.
-
Krillion Companion
A daily Krillion answer checker with rarity lookup, practice rounds, archive browsing, and score planning.
-
LabCrux Audits the Mismatches in Your Lab Report
A pay-per-audit tool that checks STEM and engineering reports for conflicting numbers, units, figures, calculations, and conclusions.
-
Latent, scouting intelligence for the leagues nobody watches
A football scouting database that rebuilds player-match data into competition-relative rankings, export-readiness scores, and detailed reports.
-
Leaf Viewer, for documents worth reading
A read-only Windows document reader that typesets Markdown, LaTeX, notebooks, diagrams, source code, data files, subtitles, and other text formats.
-
MacToys: fifty Mac utilities behind one menu-bar icon
A native macOS utility bundle combining screenshots, clipboard history, battery tools, audio switching, window controls, system monitoring, and more for a one-time $9.99 payment.