Somebody counted. Every dictionary entry typed backward by hand, every plug standard on Earth, every pigment since the caves, every security pattern inside every envelope, every object in one photographer’s house — seven monuments to the urge to catalog absolutely all of it.
315,000 dictionary entries typed in reverse for suffix lookup
→ kottke.org
A photographic inventory of every single object in one woman's house
→ katalog-barbaraiweins.com
A Dutch museum cataloguing every electrical-plug standard
→ plugsocketmuseum.nl
Searchable archive of confidential envelope interior patterns
→ secret-archive.org
Searchable archive of historical letterpress type ornaments
→ garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com
Browseable catalog of 252 pigments spanning 40,000 years
→ storiedcolors.com
A single-purpose website cataloguing rehab photos of owls wrapped in cloth
→ owlsintowels.org