This week’s catch — the shortlisted finds still without a themed home: a shorthand mark invented for Cicero that you can still type, seven minutes spent on the other side of the chat window, a Mac that keeps working with the lid shut, eighteen PDF tools in one offline window, every San Francisco bus and train down to the individual vehicle, ten thousand skulls arranged and signed by the anthropologist who did it, a walking game with no single-player mode at all, and a limestone arch in Dovedale with a cave behind it.
Cicero's secretary invented shorthand, and one of his symbols is still in Unicode
→ openculture.com
Seven minutes on the other side of the chat window
→ chrisjz.github.io
Close the lid, keep the build running — no external display required
→ clamshell.dev
Eighteen PDF tools in one Mac window, including redaction that proves itself
→ basaltformac.com
Every Muni, BART and Caltrain vehicle in San Francisco on one map
→ github.com
Thousands of skulls arranged into a pile, a cross and a heart, and signed
→ atlasobscura.com
A limestone arch in Dovedale with a cave hiding behind it
→ atlasobscura.com