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Live counters for population, emissions, water use and books published, ticking faster than is entirely comfortable.
A gazetteer of the world's odd corners — bone chapels, abandoned observatories, restaurants built inside caves.
Long, carefully researched articles on forgotten disasters, obsessives and near misses from history.
A browsable index of every named dinosaur, with size comparisons and the period each one actually belonged to.
The onion router straight from the people who maintain it — the browser download plus a plain-English account of how the relays work.
Text-based crime MMO running since 2004, where the market, the gyms and the prison are all operated by other extremely committed players.
Match-three fused with tower defence, so every swap you make is also the wave you are currently surviving.
Guess the country from a treemap of what it exports, which turns out to be an oddly precise national fingerprint.
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