Handpicked apps, sites, and interactive experiences from the open web — useful, odd, and worth bookmarking.
May 2026
A shoestring fry and a steak fry are made from the same ingredient, cooked the same way. The only difference is the cut. Chris Williams built a 3D tool to show you exactly what that difference is.
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May 2026
NASA spells out your name using real Landsat satellite images. Every letter is a real place, 700 km below, with coordinates you can look up.
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May 2026
A Brown University student made probability visible — and changed how a generation understands statistics.
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Apr 2026
825 colors, 40+ dye mushrooms. Julie Beeler's atlas of natural color that exists only because a specific fungus grew in a specific place.
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Apr 2026
Google has retired 299 products since 2006. Average lifespan: 5.2 years. The pattern behind the shutdowns has run twice — and will run again.
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Apr 2026
Barbara Iweins photographed every single thing she owns — all 12,795 of them. The spreadsheet is the easy part to explain.
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Apr 2026
River Runner lets you click anywhere on a map and watch the exact downstream journey of a raindrop — from where it lands to the ocean.
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