Christine Kaiser’s stories from herpetology
A herpetologist’s first-person stories trace the research, specimens, and people behind decades of work on amphibians and reptiles.
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Fly Kai Tak: the checkerboard turn
A browser flight simulation recreates Hong Kong’s 1998 Kai Tak approaches, including the famous Runway 13 turn over Kowloon City.
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OpenCourant picks up the OpenRadioss solver
A community project says it is continuing the open-source finite-element solver for crash, impact, and highly nonlinear dynamic simulation after OpenRadioss was discontinued.
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Tá nos Números: Brazil’s Governments, Compared
An interactive comparison of Brazilian governments since 1995, tracking measures including food prices, employment, hunger, homicides, growth, forests, and corruption.
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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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Chadron Parcel Explorer
An interactive explorer for assessed property values in Chadron and the surrounding mile, using county and state tax records from 2014–2026.
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Goose needs a home, with the hard part up front
A detailed Austin adoption profile for Goose, an eight-year-old dog looking for a home where he’ll be the only pet.
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Her Own Good: Home of Bump Academy
A fictional school satirizes people who try to manage someone else’s pregnancy, with a mock curriculum and interactive Guardian Console.
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LIFE, recovered from Bitcoin block 230621
A browser-run reconstruction of a QBasic artificial-life program the site says was encoded in a 2013 Bitcoin transaction.
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OVAL: Everything, handled.
A satirical fictional company offers to lease the agents and robots that run everyday life, as part of the novel The Takeover.
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Palimaps: A parcel map of Palisades rebuilding
A public map layers Pacific Palisades rebuild-permit status with mapped hazards, coastal rules, and jurisdiction boundaries.
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The Republic of Ubikistan
A fictional republic presented as a working internet state, complete with archives, a broadcaster, citizenship applications, and a guestbook.
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zeroreads measures who still reads your logs
An open-source tool that checks log queries, alerts, and dashboards before generating pipeline configuration to remove, shrink, or archive unread log lines.
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Chicago Politics: a public record of City Council activity
A tracker for Chicago’s City Council that brings together alderperson records, votes, legislation, meetings, campaign money, and related documents.
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Ghazi Cherif’s INU-01 robot dog
A robotics engineer’s interactive portfolio wraps a detailed career timeline around INU-01, a playable animated robot dog.
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Vision-only approach guidance, tested on a Cessna 172
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.
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Pelvis Presley’s neighborhood fundraiser
A front-yard skeleton points Arnold, Maryland, neighbors toward a different local cause each week in October.
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Tokens Anonymous turns “one more prompt” into a waiting-room joke
A sourced parody of AI-use recovery groups, with a browser-local self-check and an anonymous survey about prompting habits.
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Ahıska Club: a digital home for a scattered community
A multilingual community archive and gathering place for Ahıska families, bringing together genealogy, oral history, cultural reference, and ways to find one another.
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MineralHulk.com’s Unverified Rock Information Desk
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.
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Open City Drive turns Helsinki into a browser joyride
A browser driving playground set on Helsinki’s real streets, with 3D buildings, traffic and tram routes.
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A second Voynich, with a message in its word counts
Voynichizer turns text and a key into a 207-page Voynich-like manuscript, which can be read back with the same key.
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The Giraffe Is a Fabrication
A satirical conspiracy site presents an investigation into the supposed nonexistence of giraffes, alongside a busy discussion board.
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Jackson Drum’s recovery, in his family’s own running account
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.