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A privacy-conscious crisis-support resource combining checked helplines, local therapy and support-group searches, on-device safety plans, and practical recovery guides.
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An append-only archive of 91 documents written over 118 hours about a game that still has not shipped.
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An interactive sound-and-data artwork turns NASA's Deep Space Network telemetry into Orthodox choral harmony.
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A founders' club for people with exactly one paying customer, charging $299 for membership that ends automatically at the second sale.
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A searchable family archive tracing 205 New York construction projects from 1948 to 1991.
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A long-running Ohio archive collecting and annotating what witnesses say they have seen of the Hocking Hills Screecher.
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A mock public-safety archive documenting reports of the North American Cock Goblin around drainage corridors, outbuildings, and roadside edges.
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A playable browser game about flapping through motels, landing in a lagoon, and earning nothing but bragging rights.
Weird Finds · score 93.0
PottyRadar: Festival Sanitation, With a Dating Feature
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A mock-serious festival restroom intelligence platform that maps, rates, and monitors portable toilets while offering one suspiciously prominent way to meet someone.
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An interactive globe lets visitors read more than 120,000 real dream reports collected across two millennia.
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A multilingual memorial scrapbook for 花花, a calico cat who lived with her family from 2021 to 2026.
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An atmospheric archive of transmissions, photographs, recordings, and annotated encounters involving a mysterious off-world correspondent.
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An interactive experiment lets a crowd paint the visual world of two simulated flies, one powered by a mapped fruit-fly connectome and one by a scrambled twin.
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An open parametric CAD model, cut list, and interactive workshop guide for assembling a small outdoor toilet.
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A magazine-style paper for new dog owners, combining week-by-week training guidance, reported features, trainer profiles, and a register of accredited trainers across Britain.
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A dark-fantasy MMORPG project introduced through an in-world chronicle about an empire that held the sun for one hour—and has paid for it with four minutes of delayed dawn every year since.
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A hand-drawn atlas of Lower Manhattan from 1600 to 1900, mapping 4,216 places across four historical street plans.
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A serialized field guide to crumbs, tea leaves, bitten toast, and other edible traces left around a kitchen sink.
Weird Finds · score 92.0
Fax-Bot Industries, the Chatbot That Answers by Fax
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A chatbot reachable exclusively by fax, returning thoughtful replies on company letterhead several minutes later.
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A deliberately retro homepage for a domain-grabbing antagonist who sells back names, trademarks, and grudges.
Weird Finds · score 92.0
A Shot Across the Bar: A Wedding Record for Scott + Tracie
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A private-press wedding site turns Scott and Tracie's origin story into a playable song, liner notes, and an online guest book.
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A carefully opened-up record of a master mariner’s seventeen years at sea, tracing 14 ships, 808 logbook entries, 167 ports, and 912,444 nautical miles.
Civic & Public Life · score 92.0
Engineering Remembrance: rebuilding Holocaust family histories from the archive
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A research dossier showing how fragmented, multilingual records can be linked to recover Holocaust family histories.
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An interactive scroll through American wealth and public spending, using one pixel to represent one million dollars.