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A deadpan mock institute documents the fallout after Sandra drops buttered banana bread on Kevin’s foot.
Developer Corner · score 88.0
Avenell Cyclorama: an imaginary console with a real light field
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A detailed alternate-history console site pairs fictional company lore with a real, playable browser emulator, hardware specification, and three cartridges.
Civic & Public Life · score 88.0
Eyes on the Middle East builds witness-safety choices into its reporting form
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An Arabic-language testimony form invites people across the region to report events, submit optional files, and choose how their material may be used.
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A playable catalogue of Minecraft skins, where you can browse random entries, search for a skin you draw or upload, and download its PNG.
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A community network describes how rooftop radios, volunteer installs, and household connections could bring wireless internet across Rochester.
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A downloadable folk song whose FLAC file also contains the program that can generate new versions or open a mode for editing and recording.
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A fictional hometown TV station’s website turns its overnight safety broadcast into an interactive horror archive.
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An interactive textbook follows computer code from familiar applications down through assembly, CPU operations, logic gates, and transistors.
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A page styled as India’s eChallan traffic-enforcement portal directs visitors toward an 18 MB Android app download.
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A free field protocol teaches volunteers to make 3D records of endangered grave markers, with an emphasis on Texas Freedom Colonies and other underserved communities.
Weird Finds · score 88.0
Punchcard on Rails, a framework that refuses to be read
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A deadpan parody of an agent-first software framework that replaces readable source code with physical punch cards.
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A satirical school-parent-organization site, complete with mock local news, fundraising events, a calendar, and a Lost & Found.
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An in-world municipal website for a one-to-four-player co-op game about a small-town public-works crew.
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A live field guide to the bots visiting the site, with traffic counts, specimen files, and crawler tools.
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A fictional football club’s satirical site, with mock news, fixtures, and a calculator that turns a chosen payment into an eightfold declared sponsorship.
Content & Blogs · score 88.0
Dahsas turns Ethiopia war updates into claim audits
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Dahsas covers events in Ethiopia and the Horn by assessing individual claims, showing sources, confidence ranges, and what remains unverified.
Civic & Public Life · score 88.0
Track the Pole maps the plate readers on your route
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Enter two addresses to see mapped Flock license plate cameras along the route, count which would photograph your car, and find contact details for responsible officials.
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A browser-based suite of tools for setting up, sizing, tuning, and troubleshooting ArduPilot copters and planes.
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An interactive, illustrated birthday book presented as a workplace assignment from a friend in Tampa to Daniel in Quito.
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An online museum maps U.S. nonprofit websites and their archived versions from 1996 to 2021.
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A deadpan mock storefront recasts Zach Blechner as a product line, a stock ticker, and a research subject.
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A browser-game studio frames three compact apocalypse games through obsolete media: an 1989 combat racer, a 1999 clerical error, and a 2071 content feed.
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An interactive sound artwork framed as a fictional pirate-radio station broadcasting from the Salish Sea in 2075.
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GemWM is a Wayland compositor that recreates the look of the Atari ST’s GEM desktop while offering overlapping, tiling, and scrolling window modes.