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A bilingual guide to Bay Shore Board of Education meetings, with meeting records, issue histories, and trustee attendance.
Civic & Public Life · score 86.0
BC Gov Directory preserves a searchable government roster
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An independent site republishes an archived BC public-service directory and collects publicly released government FOI packages.
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Vitrola is a Mac wallpaper app that animates a 1979 Technics turntable in sync with music playing in Spotify or Apple Music.
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An interactive centenary tribute pairs the 1926 story and illustrations with a gallery, animated book, and playful ways to send messages.
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IGNEOUS offers procedurally generated rocks to adopt, with SOL-fee actions and a geological record of each rock’s stillness.
Content & Blogs · score 86.0
Kitnerboy Redoubt: the safe-rating desk that refuses “impregnable”
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An independent reference site for burglary- and fire-resistant safes, with maker listings, rating explanations, technician links, and a historical brochure archive.
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An in-page calculator compares annualized revenue figures across different time windows and treatments of partner sales.
Weird Finds · score 86.0
Sprueline: a five-centimeter war across the family home
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A first-person shooter pitch where Green Army and Tan Army battle 32-versus-32 across a family’s house, recast as a miniature continent.
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A searchable guide to congressional and state legislative activity, district information, campaign funding, and ballot races.
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A turn-based, single-player RPG follows Mirza Lal through nine folios of a 99-page painted world, using five pigments to fight and make choices.
Weird Finds · score 86.0
KOINO Energy’s 400,000 volts of retro-web nonsense
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A Dutch parody energy-company homepage packed with fake utilities, office chaos, and unapologetic 1990s web styling.
Civic & Public Life · score 86.0
Let Farmers Fly: farm funding, with drone rules attached
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A free finder for farm grants, cost-share, loans, and tax rules, focused on Washington and Oregon and including guidance on when drones may qualify.
Useful Tools · score 86.0
Low Poly Pictures puts 1995 3D Movie Maker in your browser
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A browser-based revival of Microsoft’s 1995 movie-making program, for building, playing and exporting simple 3D movies.
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A free, open-source workbench for analyzing speech audio and building word, phone, and speaker tiers for TextGrid export.
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A native reimplementation of Rainbow Arts’ 1991 TV-station management game, with online multiplayer for two or three players.
Civic & Public Life · score 86.0
Incident Map turns field reports into an incident record
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Incident Map is an incident-coordination tool for agencies, combining a map for command staff with a phone-based reporting workflow for crews.
Weird Finds · score 86.0
Forever Machines: a growing collection of sound instruments
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A browser-based collection of playable sound machines, with controls for layering, recording, and MIDI/Ableton use.
Useful Tools · score 86.0
FrankenPiano: a concert grand modeled from its parts
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A piano plugin that says it calculates a concert grand’s sound from its physical components instead of playing back recorded samples.
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A deadpan mock standards body for healing energy, cosmic wellness, and other interdimensional phenomena.
Content & Blogs · score 86.0
Krampe Family Archive: Seven Generations on One Iowa Farm
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A family-history archive tracing the Krampe family from Lippe, Germany, to Jasper County, Iowa, and the farm ground its descendants still work.
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A public, photo-documented index and map of broken, missing, and occupied footpaths in Bengaluru.
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A downloadable workbench for editing the PlayStation game Guardian's Crusade, from dialogue and cutscenes to new areas and imported assets.
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A bilingual memorial to historian Olga Shnyrova, bringing together her biography, colleagues’ memories, scholarship, interviews, and lectures.
Oddly Specific · score 86.0
Sidewalk turns a hot-dog cart into a New York survival sim
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An interactive life sim follows a street vendor working from a hot-dog cart toward the goal of saving for a food truck.