KrISS feed 8.23
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May 06
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Neal.fun’s Internet Roadtrip
multiplayer street view where everyone votes on where to go, changing the radio station, and honking the horn #
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April 28
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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One Million Chessboards
inspired by his One Million Checkboxes project, Nolen Royalty made a chaotic chess MMO with no waiting between turns #
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April 21
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Primer, an introduction to oscilloscope music
"what you see is what you hear!" the left and right audio channels control the beam on the X and Y axis, respectively #
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April 19
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Hypertext TV
the handmade web presented as scheduled daily programming across nine channels, go add some more #
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April 18
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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a cursor is a kite
desktop browsers only, try Las Vegas if where you are isn't very windy right now #
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April 17
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Back to a Website
Homestar Runner celebrates 25 years online with an ode to the days when the internet wasn't "the samе four websites on your phone" #
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April 14
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Spending 30 days in the nearly-empty virtual world of There.com
I wrote about There a year before its 2003 launch and didn't know it's still kicking with a tiny tight-knit community of about 30 players #
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April 14
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Why is there a “small house” in IBM’s Code Page 437?
incredible deep dive into a "not serious" mystery of computer history, with a detour into ZZT and the ASCII art scene #
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April 10
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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SNAKISTS
twenty Snake variations from Pippin Barr, a sequel to SNAKISMS from 2017 #
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April 10
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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xkcd’s Push Notifications
xkcd's annual belated April 1 project plays with browser push notifications #
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April 10
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Comic Sans Maps
finally #
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April 04
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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allow.webcam
if you grant webcam permission, it'll snap a photo and show you a collage of everyone else who agreed before you #
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April 04
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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monkeys.zip
adopt a few monkeys and see if they write Shakespeare #
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April 01
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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CSS Clicker
incremental game themed around making a website, made entirely in HTML/CSS without JS #
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March 24
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Infinite Mac can now emulate early OS X
Mihai also added a bunch of new old software to the Infinite HD library to play with #
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March 20
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Selfie Shuffle
slide the blocks to unscramble your face #
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March 20
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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the html review 04
my favorite internet journal put out a fourth issue of experimental web writing #
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March 20
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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PoetiCal
experimental poetry project published exclusively through iCalendar files and read in your calendar app #
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March 19
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Any Map Puzzle
turn any location into a sliding tile puzzle #
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March 19
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Improved Relative Time
I was born 13BWWW (Before World Wide Web), Waxy.org was started in 4AB (After Blog) #
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March 19
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Invisiclues.org
new Infocom fan site with a bunch of great details, including interactive status bar, playable Infocomics, a deep article archive, and very good 404 page #
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March 19
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Columboxd
finally, a site to track and review episodes of Columbo #
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March 19
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Turning real-time Wikipedia edits in an Asteroids-inspired arcade cabinet
you can play it yourself at asteroids.wiki #
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March 11
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Onomatopoeia Odyssey
The Pudding's Vivian Li compares our words for animal sounds between languages #
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March 11
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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715-999-7483.com
Brian Moore made a website anyone can change by calling a phone number, what could go wrong? #
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March 10
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Type Help
very clever Twine-based murder-mystery inspired by deduction games like Her Story and Return of the Obra Dinn #
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March 05
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian team up to relaunch Digg
I'm skeptical, but it'd be hilarious if Reddit users migrated back to Digg after a series of community-hostile decisions #
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March 02
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Binocular Shot
a hyper-specific collection of movie clips with binocular POVs depicted as two overlapping circles #
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March 02
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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wide emoji maker
long 🐈 is long #
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February 27
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Analyzing nearly 2,000 Oscar speeches to see who winners thanked the most
the only person thanked more than God was Peter Jackson in the 2000s #
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February 27
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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The Fibrovisor
turning a dollar store fiber optic glow wand into a low-resolution display #
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February 27
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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CSS Puzzle Box 2.0
a tricky puzzle box made with inline CSS and no Javascript, updated with new puzzles and a detailed breakdown of how it works #
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February 26
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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The Museum of All Things
Wikipedia visualized as a nearly-endless virtual museum #
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February 25
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Last Week Tonight tackles Facebook and content moderation
John Oliver's whirlwind guide to Section 230, Meta's new "fuck it" policy changes, and how to make yourself less valuable to them #
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February 25
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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touch grass
coming March 14, a free iOS app that blocks apps until computer vision detects you've touched grass #
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February 25
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Styscraper
Matt Round's latest game for Vole.wtf is an addictive physics-based tower builder; don't miss his long thread on its development from start to finish #
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February 25
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Over 1,000 UK musicians release silent album to protest AI training legislation
Kate Bush, Cat Stevens, Hans Zimmer, New Order, Imogen Heap, Annie Lennox, and Damon Albarn were all part of the project #
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February 25
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Bracket City
clever daily web game to reveal a historical news headline by answering nested clues of bracketed words #
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February 25
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Visualizing all the books in the world
the winner of a contest by Anna's Archive to explore the shadow library's collection of nearly 100 million books #
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February 21
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Running Pong in 240 Browser Tabs
another Nolen Royalty banger #
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February 19
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Gulf of Anything
MapQuest is one of the few U.S. mapping companies that hasn't caved to Trump's name change yet #
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February 19
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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The hardest working font in Manhattan
Marcin Wichary's beautifully visual and interactive history of a 135-year-old typeface that's somehow everywhere and largely unknown at once #
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February 19
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Ethan Marcotte on leaving 18F
one story of what it's like to be forced out of a job you love at a federal agency filled with talented public servants as it's dismantled by fascists #
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February 19
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Molly Soda interviews tvwishes
a Missouri college student is crate-digging through Flickr for early 2000s nostalgia, reposting it on Instagram for a new audience #
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February 14
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Little Sisyphus
clever and challenging physics NES platformer, made using the author's own programming language for NES development #
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February 10
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Elon Musk’s rapid unscheduled disassembly of the US government
Elizabeth Lopatto sums up Musk's actions so far, though as Jason Kottke points out, this is not solely his coup #
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February 10
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Kyle Orland on the genius of Dragonsweeper
I've been mildly obsessed with the game since it came out, in part because Daniel Benmergui keeps changing it #
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February 10
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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No, The People Didn’t Vote For This
Mike Masnick debunks the myth of Trump's mandate, a slim margin of victory made possible only through deception #
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February 10
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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(mac)OStalgia
imagining what modern apps might have looked liked in the Mac OS 9 era #
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February 10
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Hiding data in emoji
try the encoder/decoder to smuggle your own message in a Unicode character #
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February 07
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Plumbsum
Asher Vollmer's first PICO-8 game is like Tetris meets Pipe Dream #
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February 07
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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GovWayback
access historical versions of U.S. government pages by replacing ".gov" in the URL with ".govwayback.com" #
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February 06
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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I’ll save it myself
a little WebXR scene, you may need to look around to figure it out #
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February 05
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY
Nolen Royalty made a cross-platform client that synchronizes everyone's CAPS LOCK key #
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February 05
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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Endless Jeopardy
Neil Cicierega ported his excellent Twitter game, shuttered by Musk's API changes in 2023, over to Bluesky #
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February 05
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Waxy.org (Andy Baio)
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WikiTok
a TikTok-style interface for exploring random Wikipedia articles; see also: ReddTok #
