Ads. — a notebook of memorable campaigns
A personal collection of 67 advertising campaigns, paired with notes about the people, work, and ideas behind them.
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Cabaret Voltage reviews the Sleepy Shoelace
A machine-written review magazine publishes model-generated critiques of products, alongside issue archives, readership counts and a cemetery for failed critics.
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Helada’s parcel-level frost alerts
Helada is a prototype that adjusts frost forecasts for individual rain-fed maize parcels in Mexico’s Toluca valleys and sends alerts by WhatsApp voice and text.
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A Goose With Its Own Physics Engine
Honk & Boom pairs short 3D goose-comedy videos with a playable browser island and a behind-the-scenes account of their production.
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The Basin’s Hourly Agitator
A surreal satirical broadsheet whose dispatches report on migrating royal kneecap crickets, legislative navel lint, and other affairs of the Basin.
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How Wrong Am I? makes machine learning a 25-episode drama
Local Minimum Pictures presents a story-led series about machine learning, with an interactive first episode on linear regression.
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Nostalgiabuster Video: A Multiplayer Rental Store
An open-source, first-person video store that turns a Plex library into a place to browse movies and pick one with friends.
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retsurf: a browser for handhelds
An open-source web browser built for gamepad and keyboard use on retro handhelds, as well as Android and desktop systems.
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The Newburgh Project Rebuilds Lost Streets in Minecraft
A Newburgh community project reconstructs parts of the city demolished during urban renewal as an explorable Minecraft model, alongside historical material and local programs.
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Transit Lab puts NYC transit under the microscope
An independent New York City transit project publishes policy evaluations, performance trackers, interactive tools, and downloadable data.
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Under Two Skies: a hillside survival game
A free PC beta for a tactical survival game about rotational farming, fire management, and a Northern Thai village.
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Dr. Gordon A. Rodgers Jr., in his own words
A family-built archive of the Anniston dentist, NAACP leader and first Black member of the city council, with a timeline, oral histories and local places.
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Exposure Plan, a sexual-health planner for after sex
A private, interactive planner turns details about sex and protection into risk estimates, time-sensitive next steps, and a testing timeline.
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Overturn: a health-insurance denial, translated
Overturn says it can explain a health-insurance denial letter, identify relevant rights and deadlines, and help draft an appeal for the user to edit and send.
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Hidden in Print — Black Savannah
An illustrated history of Black life in Savannah, told through newspaper accounts from 1763 to 1965.
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Kauaʻi Funding Lab: the applicant keeps the pen
A free, searchable directory of funding for Kauaʻi residents and organizations, with deadlines, eligibility information, and complimentary application support.
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MeadWatch, a 3D explorer for Lake Mead
An interactive map explores Lake Mead’s water levels, forecasts, and estimated effects on downstream communities, farms, and power customers.
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PriceProof: What public agencies paid for data software
PriceProof tracks public contract awards for data and analytics software, alongside vendor-published list prices where available.
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Sensepermís: tracking receipts for Catalan public websites
A citizen observatory documents trackers found on Catalan public-administration websites, with rankings, methodology and sample network records.
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Tot Arenys: the town, street by street
A Catalan-language local encyclopedia lets readers explore Arenys de Mar through its streets, heritage sites, people, historic press, and mapped places.
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Transit Lab puts NYC transit claims on the clock
Transit Lab publishes independent research, interactive tools, and downloadable data about New York City transit.
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Underlaid maps unequal conditions by neighborhood
An interactive map explores heat, pollution, housing, care and everyday services in Paris and its inner suburbs, using an address and optional mobility preferences.
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Waiting in the Wild: Vijay Bittu’s field notes
A wildlife photography project told through location-specific stories, photographs, and notes from trips across Indian parks and Tanzania.
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BacBat: Germ Warfare, Literally
A free, browser-playable artillery game puts your bacteria squad inside Gary, an alien with a job interview to get through.