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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, and we have it filed as coffee break — five to fifteen minutes of proper attention. It reads as funny, brainy and wholesome.
Sites built by somebody who decided to document a single narrow thing completely. Shoelace knots. Candy wrappers. Utterly sincere.
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.
Every known way to lace and tie a shoe, diagrammed by one Australian for over two decades, including a knot he invented himself.
The real museum of 25,000 banana-related objects has a website, and it looks exactly as you are already imagining.
Art too bad to be ignored, collected since 1993 and catalogued with entirely straight-faced curatorial commentary.
Click a dial-up modem, a Nokia ringtone or a VHS rewinder and remember precisely where you were standing at the time.
The definitive index of American roadside oddities: the giant fibreglass animals, the museums devoted to exactly one thing.
Sweet wrappers collected and annotated for decades, arranged by how well the graphic design has survived contact with the present.