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A satirical newspaper covering the internet’s most consequential images, memes, anxieties, and technical absurdities.
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An interactive four-year political simulator in which you write presidential actions and watch Congress, governors, the economy, the press, social groups, and the internet respond.
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A free browser game about walking through strange, inhabited worlds and learning what their residents need.
Oddly Specific · score 88.0
The Porch Light Club: Three Introductions, Not a Directory
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A women-only friendship club for people over 55, built around pen-pal letters, focused hobby rooms, weekly classes, and three suggested introductions each week.
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A public paste-up wall where anyone can buy a poster linking to their site, count its clicks, and eventually cover someone else's.
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A first-person life sim about starting over in a fictional Midlands town, built solo in Unreal Engine 5.
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A bespoke Ukrainian birthday scavenger hunt sends Vika through a digital dreamhouse to find six personal objects, hear voice messages, and unlock a letter.
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A Chinese-language public archive collecting memories of social events, personal experience, and messages addressed to someone named 雪琴.
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A merge-and-restoration game about rebuilding a valley that reappeared when its reservoir dropped.
Developer Corner · score 88.0
SQL Heist Turns Injection Practice Into a Noir Break-In
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An in-browser game teaches SQL injection through three sandboxed SQLite cases, then shows the defensive fix.
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A fan-made statistical desk tracking one man’s attempt to eat at every Chinese buffet he can find.
Oddly Specific · score 88.0
SträyMu Turns Stray Animals Into Neighborhood Legends
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A Thai interactive card game where people photograph stray dogs and cats, save them as collectible cards, and receive a daily fortune from the animals they encounter.
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A sourced political accountability ledger examining fourteen Tennessee deals involving roads, water, power, schools, prisons, health dollars, and private interests.
Developer Corner · score 88.0
Anonycord, the iPhone recorder designed to look like a phone
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An open-source iOS recorder for journalists who need to capture video without displaying the usual signs that recording is happening.
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A browser-based air-traffic-control game where players vector real aircraft, manage runway approaches, and follow flights across 16 airports.
Civic & Public Life · score 88.0
DeFlock Tampa Puts Local License-Plate Surveillance Under a Public Microscope
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A Hillsborough-area civic campaign explains Flock Safety's license-plate network and tracks local records, meetings, agencies, and accountability questions.
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An interactive reading of Jewish liturgy through four archetypal energies: King, Warrior, Magician, and Lover.
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A Chengdu gelato shop where every flavor is available for free tasting before you choose a cup.
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A finite supply of 1,000,000 individually numbered units of absolutely nothing, sold in euros and tracked through a public ledger.
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A searchable family-history archive combining timelines, photographs, ranch history, letters, newspaper stories, and verbatim family books.
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An unofficial celebration of queues, complete with line reviews, crowd geometry, overheard remarks, and a call to take your place.
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A cat-centered editorial lab documenting Maru entering boxes, bowls, cylinders, baskets, and other openings that appear too small.
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A handmade peanut-butter project selling two 16-ounce flavors in squeeze bottles.
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A searchable awards database and magazine that aggregates Game of the Year picks from 3,008 outlets across 95 countries, covering 2003–2026.