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There are numerous sites documenting the ground we walk on, but my favourite has to be MSRY's Archive of Japanese Access Covers (sewer covers).

You can view the entire archive of 2400+ photos on their Flickr site.

Some similar links:

Written In Stone is a gallery of sidewalks and the stamps and seals left by the people who laid them.

Written in Stone

A gallery of sidewalks, and the stamps and seals left by the people who laid them.

Here's another for Oakland, California:

Oakland Underfoot

fossils in the city’s hardscape

Oakland Underfoot

And Denver, Colorado:

Sidewalk Stamps — Andrew Alger

Denver sidewalks are not great. In the next election cycle you can vote to make them better & I hope you do! One great thing about Denver sidewalks are these wonderful little stamps! What a great advertising method. Most stamps I find are decades old. Maybe companies don’t do this anymore. There

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Five Books tags itself as The Best Books On Everything. The site has an archive of more than 1700 interviews with authors and experts, each recommending five great books in their field. That means more than 8000 book recommendations from people who know what they're talking about.

Five Books

If you’re looking for the best books on any topic, Five Books has the world’s largest collection of expert book recommendations.

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Some mad genius has uploaded an audio clip to Spotify. Stream it while you sleep and the revenue generated by all the repeat listeners around the world is used to plant trees.

Of course, I don't have Spotify so have no idea what you'll be listening to, but if you subscribe to it, maybe give the track (repeated) listens to assuage your guilt. (j/k!)

The site for the track is at thissongplantstrees.com:

Mptree: A song that plants trees

Add this short (31 second) song to streaming playlists. Every 100 plays we plant a tree. UPDATE: 2 million Spotify streams / 20,000 trees planted so far

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WeExpire's motto is Simpler than a will; safer than a note. Basically, it's an open-source tool for creating emergency notes that can be read by your trusted contacts only after your death or if you are seriously injured.

How does it work? You create a note and choose an "I'm alive" window. It gives you a unique QR Code. You pass that to the intended reader. When they scan it, the system sends you an email with a link to click. If you don't click it within the "I'm alive" window, the intended reader gains access to your note. You're alive? Click the link and they don't get access.

Smart. Not sure it's legally binding, but smart.

WeExpire

Create emergency notes that can be read by your trusted contacts only after your death.

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WikiTrip allows you to enter a location or use Location Services to share your location and then it provides you with interesting things related to that location. Useful when you travel but just as fun if you want to know what you've been missing in your own back yard.

Find nearby Wikipedia articles

Explore nearby Wikipedia articles

VisitLondon.com's guide to the best galleries in London is a terrific resource that provides names, addresses, hours, and prices of what they consider the best galleries in the city.

Love art? Visiting London? Get it right!

The Deep Ark is an eight hour plus mix of 1990's Warp Records "Electronic Listening Music" and related beats.

Scroll down on this beautiful site to read an interview with The Arkitekt.

The Deep Ark

A powerful and deep world of sound filled with the vibrations of nature.

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via MeFi.

You will either hate me or love me for sharing this game with you.

I quite enjoyed these last year. Here's some of the highlights for 2024:

You can view all of the nominees here.

Some of last year's winners were extraordinarily good:

Site is here:

Siena Awards

Siena Awards

The HTML Review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web. Spring, 2024, means the third issue has been posted. It's broken into three sections: Poetry, Possibilities, and Expeditions.

As always, it's beautifully designed.

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the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web

Past issues are also available:

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the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web

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the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web

They're brought to you by Maxwell Neely-Cohen and Shelby Wilson.