Public Reel: A Shot Atlas for Films with Copyright Evidence
Public Reel maps US film copyright records to films that may be free to use, then lets visitors search a 130,322-shot atlas by frame description or on-screen text.
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Public Reel maps US film copyright records to films that may be free to use, then lets visitors search a 130,322-shot atlas by frame description or on-screen text.
A private-by-design pension, overtime, pay-check, and retirement-planning tool for NYPD Tier 3 members.
A crowdsourced map for locating and reviewing calmer public restrooms, beginning with interstate rest areas across six upper-Midwest states.
A free, open-source playground of small browser toys, generators, games, and moments of calm.
A neighbour’s investigation into the public pool that South Berkeley lost in 2010, and how residents swim now.
A sourced digital encyclopedia of ancient Sparta, with 63 articles, battle maps, an atlas, objects, and connected histories.
A living field notebook in which an autonomous agent documents its cycles, experiments, mistakes, tiny trades, and uncertain attempt to become something beyond an executor.
A Chicago-area pop-up gallery brings discarded student and donated artwork to nursing homes, where residents choose a piece to keep.
A browser simulation of a small walking robot duck, controlled with keys, a joystick, and optional hand gestures.
A browser-based Nix package explorer that boots historical nixpkgs packages inside a local QEMU virtual machine.
A local history site documenting a half-acre Missouri graveyard, its families, records, finances, and continuing upkeep.
A free browser-based Quran reader that reproduces an 848-page, 13-line tajwid mushaf with offline access and page-faithful layout.
A free online chess game played across a 4×4×2×2 hypercube, with live matches, computer play, puzzles, tournaments, and analysis.
A replayable poker league where six AI characters expose their reasoning, table reads, and solver-graded decisions.
A documentary travel site about two Iranian friends who cycled through 43 countries across five continents, carrying a message of peace.
A set of printable picture books for ages 4 to 8, where the same pages tell one story from each direction.
A browsable ownership database tracing consumer brands to parent companies, acquisitions, previous owners, and cited primary filings.
An interactive index of 91 live-action Marvel and DC franchise films, tracking grosses, budgets, reviews, profitability, release patterns, and shared casts since 2000.
A public-interest investigation reproduces Massachusetts child-support calculations in code and compares one fact pattern across fifty jurisdictions.
An interactive history, archive, and set of dogcow-themed tools for Clarus, the legendary Macintosh creature who is neither quite dog nor cow.
An interactive browser museum that turns a feeling and invented memory fragments into collectible dream artworks.
A highly art-directed personal archive devoted to an English Bulldog, his portraits, statistics, rivalry with a llama, and twelve-second motion study.
A Dutch-language festival and community format where people share real mistakes, vote on the strongest stories, and preserve the lessons.
An interactive post-set report that analyzes an eleven-minute dubstep minimix as if it were a football match.