Where Chicago’s $27.7 billion goes
An interactive explorer breaks down the 2026 budgets of the City of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Park District into 47,360 budget boxes.
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An interactive explorer breaks down the 2026 budgets of the City of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Park District into 47,360 budget boxes.
An interactive explorer for assessed property values in Chadron and the surrounding mile, using county and state tax records from 2014–2026.
A detailed Austin adoption profile for Goose, an eight-year-old dog looking for a home where he’ll be the only pet.
A fictional school satirizes people who try to manage someone else’s pregnancy, with a mock curriculum and interactive Guardian Console.
A browser-run reconstruction of a QBasic artificial-life program the site says was encoded in a 2013 Bitcoin transaction.
A satirical fictional company offers to lease the agents and robots that run everyday life, as part of the novel The Takeover.
A public map layers Pacific Palisades rebuild-permit status with mapped hazards, coastal rules, and jurisdiction boundaries.
A fictional republic presented as a working internet state, complete with archives, a broadcaster, citizenship applications, and a guestbook.
An open-source tool that checks log queries, alerts, and dashboards before generating pipeline configuration to remove, shrink, or archive unread log lines.
A tracker for Chicago’s City Council that brings together alderperson records, votes, legislation, meetings, campaign money, and related documents.
A robotics engineer’s interactive portfolio wraps a detailed career timeline around INU-01, a playable animated robot dog.
Joe Tan’s personal project reports on a GPS-denied navigation and landing system tested on a Cessna 172, with results from two versions of its approach software.
A front-yard skeleton points Arnold, Maryland, neighbors toward a different local cause each week in October.
A sourced parody of AI-use recovery groups, with a browser-local self-check and an anonymous survey about prompting habits.
A multilingual community archive and gathering place for Ahıska families, bringing together genealogy, oral history, cultural reference, and ways to find one another.
A geology parody stages a descent through a geode, serves up fake mineral facts, and gives Doctor Bitz a rock-throwing pit and a starring role.
A browser driving playground set on Helsinki’s real streets, with 3D buildings, traffic and tram routes.
Voynichizer turns text and a key into a 207-page Voynich-like manuscript, which can be read back with the same key.
A satirical conspiracy site presents an investigation into the supposed nonexistence of giraffes, alongside a busy discussion board.
A family-maintained account of Jackson Drum’s recovery after a hockey injury, with dated updates, a detailed timeline, photos, news coverage and ways to help.
A detailed design account for a proposed habitat where a small group could live on a coral reef without being connected to the surface.
A watchmaker presents one-off watches with hand-worked dials made from silver inherited from his father, in two distinct lines.
noperopefromscrewthatistan.com
A fictional consulate archives the history of Nope Rope from Screwthatistan, a funk-punk band formed in Austin in 1984 and active through 1993.
A takeout-menu-shaped history of a punk band said to have formed behind a nine-seat sushi counter in East San Jose.