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A team counted every squirrel in Central Park and published the data, the maps and a full illustrated report on the findings.
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The Squirrel Census sits in Odd Obsessions under Weird, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Sites built by somebody who decided to document a single narrow thing completely. Shoelace knots. Candy wrappers. Utterly sincere.
Yes. The Squirrel Census is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use The Squirrel Census without signing up for anything.
Yes. The Squirrel Census works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Scanned cereal boxes going back decades, with full career histories for the mascots, maintained purely for its own sake.
Recordings of very nearly every bird call on earth, uploaded by amateurs and searchable by species, country and even call type.
People staple bread to trees and photograph it. There is no deeper explanation available and no sign of it stopping.
A scatterplot of six thousand music genres you have never heard of, each one clickable for a sample and a list of its bands.
Cecil Adams' archive of exhaustively answered daft questions, invented decades before you could just ask the internet.
Flick the switch on. A small hand reaches out and turns it off again. That is the entire website and it is somehow enough.
One button, one random pointless website, no explanation offered or needed. The site that turned this whole genre into a genre.
Daily gift catalogue for things nobody needs, and the reason several of your friends own a novelty tap they never use.
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