The Human Paradox: a sourced gallery of contradictions
A news-paradox gallery pairs topical examples with source links, context, and a reader vote on whether each is a real paradox or just words.
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HumFinder turns a hummed tune into a shortlist
Hum or play a song nearby, and HumFinder searches its catalogue for likely matches.
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itcant.fail: engineering beliefs under cross-examination
A sourced catalogue of engineering beliefs and the systems or incidents that challenge them.
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Kanso Trails Japan maps field-checked hikes
A Japanese hiking-guide site presenting routes with maps, distances, elevation changes, and notes for day hikes and camping trips.
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Kiliwise’s Kilimanjaro Trip Planner
A Tanzania trip-planning site that compares Kilimanjaro routes and helps assemble a climb, northern safari, and Zanzibar stay.
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Kittle Industries’ off-world construction simulator
Kittle Industries presents a browser game where players operate excavators on lunar and Martian terrain, with play sessions intended to generate robot-training data.
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A 26-stop route through cement-plant refractory science
Learn about refractory castables in the cement clinker process through a free, self-paced online journey based on Suppamit S.’s book.
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LECAFOR measures Congo Basin forests tree by tree
A research laboratory at the University of Kisangani documents forest ecology, carbon, plant diversity, and land use across the Congo Basin.
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Line of Sight, a queer DIY basement venue
A trans-run, queer-centered DIY basement venue in Mt. Hope, with event-location and accessibility information.
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Liubomyr’s Preserves Put a 100 ml Surprise in the Tomatoes
A Ukrainian shop selling homemade sauces, crunchy pickles, and customizable tomato jars with a 100 ml spirits surprise inside.
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旅先のあの店。 — A guide to the world’s everyday shops
A country-by-country guide to convenience stores, supermarkets and restaurant chains, with shop descriptions, photos and representative products.
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LTStat: Lithuanian Municipalities in Numbers
A multilingual explorer for comparing statistics across Lithuania’s 60 municipalities and 10 counties.
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MakeSeamless checks whether pattern tiles really repeat cleanly
A browser-based checker tests image tiles for visible seams in straight, half-drop, and half-brick repeats, and offers seam fixes at the original pixel dimensions.
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Marmalade Volunteers weave camouflage nets by hand
A Kyiv volunteer workshop hand-weaves camouflage nets for Ukrainian military units; donations fund the fabric while volunteers supply the labor.
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Marsad Almal: an Arabic investor-warning desk
An Arabic-language site combining financial-market news with a searchable database of company and broker warnings, investigations, and investor-checking tools.
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Movo turns Costa Rican bank emails into a spending log
Movo presents a free, open-source spending tracker that turns bank notification emails into categorized transactions on your phone.
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Mumbai Metro Tracker keeps the region’s unfinished lines in view
An unofficial, sourced tracker maps Mumbai-region metro lines by status and documents construction, funding, tenders, and updates for selected lines.
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A virtual singing-bowl hall, with footnotes
A Korean-language site combines virtual crystal- and metal-bowl meditation rooms with a sourced guide to singing bowls.
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NerdShit’s backcountry field register
A field register for rating outdoor bowel movements with a view photo and a map pin.
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NoiseTrail puts overnight neighbor noise on the record
NoiseTrail’s Android app logs overnight noise with timestamps, approximate levels and short clips, then assembles a report and complaint letter.
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Open Old Files: a browser reader for forgotten formats
A browser-based tool for opening older document formats and saving them as modern files.
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OpenStrictCurl’s competition archive
A source-linked strict-curl results archive with rankings, lifter comparisons, a ranking calculator, and competition records.
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Pawtropolitan, the follower-built cat city
An Indonesian cat-themed online city where followers can find a personalized resident card, explore community features, and play a small game.
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pggate stress-tests Supabase queries in-browser
A browser-based tool that runs EXPLAIN analysis on a pasted Supabase schema and query at increasing table sizes, then suggests and rechecks fixes.