Today’s catch: six obsessive catalogs, each built to hold one subject in full — all the world’s art, four million years of events, 71,763 out-of-the-way places, America’s oldest restaurant menus, all 85 Federalist Papers, and the small design details everyone else walks past.
A semantic search engine for 5.8 million artworks, browsable by theme instead of keyword
→ lastmuseum.com
A zoomable timeline of four million events, from prehistory to now
→ app.everything.diena.co
71,763 curious places, filterable by how obscure they are
→ detourmap.com
What America's oldest surviving restaurant menus reveal about class, gender, and technology
→ pudding.cool
All 85 Federalist Papers, presented one by one as they first ran in 1787-88
→ federalistreader.org
A newsletter with big enthusiasm for the design details everyone else ignores
→ inconspicuous.info