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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.
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La Chambre Bleue: an underwater habitat at sea-level pressure
A detailed design account for a proposed habitat where a small group could live on a coral reef without being connected to the surface.
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My Father’s Silver: watches cut from an inheritance
A watchmaker presents one-off watches with hand-worked dials made from silver inherited from his father, in two distinct lines.
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Nope Rope’s Consulate for Screwthatistan
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.
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Questionable Sushi: a strip-mall punk archive
A takeout-menu-shaped history of a punk band said to have formed behind a nine-seat sushi counter in East San Jose.
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The Parish Register of Ye Old Squirts
A mock parish archive presents Ye Old Squirts as a medieval folk-metal band from Thaddeus-upon-Avon, with records spanning 1987–1995.
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Warehouse Worker, the AmaJon survival game
An interactive warehouse-work survival game where players take shifts, try to cover bills, and unlock new assignments.
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Authorized Loitering
A browser game set in an unmanned government office, where tapping objects earns certificates and unlocks increasingly strange floors.
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California Files: What officials disclose
An interactive explorer of California officials’ financial disclosures and campaign money, with links to the underlying public records.
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A mock Ministry of Homecoming for the Indian diaspora
A fictional government portal satirizes Indian life abroad, immigration paperwork, and the idea of returning home.