The Hollowfield Institute Catalogues Things That Never Happened
A fictional Washington archive documents genuine American folklore, including hoaxes, sightings, and the people who kept writing them down.
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The Museum of Hopeful Machines
An illustrated archive of ingenious machines whose promises exceeded their proof, drawn from historical patent records.
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051
Lost and Found, 1850–1900
An archival collection of nineteenth-century newspaper notices for lost objects, preserved as original clippings with checked transcriptions.
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Iron Protocol: The Wargame Where Seeing Is Hitting
A free, CC0 hex-grid tabletop wargame about mechanized combat, with a rulebook, printable record sheets, and an offline browser battle tracker.
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053
Neco Cat, a Catalogue with Holes in It
An investigative catalogue of small glossy cats: thirteen numbered entries, one unnumbered giant, and a photograph nobody can fully explain.
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054
Winsock: The Two Seconds After the Modem Stopped Screeching
An interactive technical history of what happened between dial-up modem connection and the first web request.
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The Order of Gandalf Cat Has Guarded the Same Door Since 1104
A fictional gatekeeper’s meticulously maintained archive of a password-protected door, its failed visitors, broken staff, guestbook, and parking-level surroundings.
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The Perspective Machine Turns Income Into a World Tour
An interactive income visualization that places your earnings among people worldwide, then replays their relative weight across 147 countries.
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The Lost Clip Society
ministryofdiscontinuedparts.com
A catalog of made-to-order reproductions for discontinued, non-safety-critical interior parts from pre-2000 cars.
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はじめてのおうち: A Careful Handoff for Retired Breeding Dogs
A Japanese service connecting retired breeding dogs from registered kennels with people who want to give them a home.
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Beckerle Best Ball
A meticulously transcribed family golf tournament record spanning thirty-six summers, from 1990 through 2025.
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Dolly Legacy: A Remixable Life of Dolly Parton
An open-data celebration of Dolly Parton built from 35 life moments, quotes, songs, films, letters, and stories about the people she stood with.
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Day 365 — a year of running for Rafaël
Dominic David Rioux documents a daily running streak carried out in memory of his son Rafaël, with a public invitation to join its Cowansville finale.
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Off-Peak Journal, for travelling at the wrong time of year
A twice-yearly travel journal about slow, out-of-season journeys, including sleeper trains, closed-season islands, harvests, and long walks.
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063
Chiti Janta Party: The Ant-ifesto
A satirical Indian political party for ants, with five demands, an anthem, a chalk-line game, a poster maker, and downloadable Ant Cards.
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064
Fußballmanager 2600: Football Management in 8 Kilobytes
A browser-playable Atari 2600 football manager where you pick lineups, formations, and training before each simulated matchday.
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065
Quo Gives Software Its Own Authority
Quo is an open protocol that lets software prove who authorized a message without accounts, passwords, or a master key.
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XXXI_: A Birthday With a Plot
A bespoke, interactive birthday experience for Kiisha, structured as a multi-act production with choices, references, and a countdown.
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067
JOSHAWA: The Dating Application
A meticulously structured dating pitch for one man, presented as an evidence file with exhibits, performance metrics, photographs, testimonials, and a compatibility quiz.
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068
The Memorial Phone Booth That Keeps Nick’s Voice on the Line
A Madison memorial project turns a phone booth into a place for hearing collected voices, music, laughter, and memories.
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KidDOS, a Small Computer for Curious Kids
An open-source pretend computer that teaches children to explore shells, files, programming, and hardware without access to the internet or anything important to break.
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The Physics of Pinball
A hands-on physics course that uses real pinball machines to teach mechanics, electromagnetism, oscillations, and feedback.
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For Oraya: A Wishlist with a Pulse
A deeply personal gift list collecting treats, comfort items, experiences, books, clothes, jewellery, and decidedly unhinged luxuries for Oraya.
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Rent an Astronaut to Fight
A polished booking site for private, supervised three-round boxing exhibitions against active or retired flight crew.