This week’s catch — the shortlisted finds still waiting on a theme: the Great Barrington church where Alice lived, now Arlo Guthrie’s folk venue; a shrunken beige CRT that answers when you shake it; Windows 98 Solitaire with everyone else’s games dealing around yours; five Montana grain silos turned one-room stays; a Bluetooth remote whose aluminium wheel you set by feel; a Mac utility that moves whichever window is under the pointer; a Citizen dial of washi too delicate to dye; and 1,068 themes hiding in America’s street names.
The church where Alice lived, now Arlo Guthrie's folk venue
→ atlasobscura.com
Shake this shrunken retro computer for one of twenty stock answers
→ kikkerland.com
Windows 98 Solitaire, played alongside everyone else online
→ solitairealonetogether.com
Five decommissioned grain silos on a Montana farm, each rebuilt into a one-room stay with its own fire pit
→ clarkfarmsilos.com
A pocket remote with a real volume wheel for music you play from a phone or player
→ activostyle.com
Hold a modifier, move the mouse, and the window under it follows
→ kolibri.arvidson.tech
A dial made from paper too delicate to dye, sandwiched under crimson
→ citizenwatch.com
1,068 themes mapped across America's street names, and counting
→ road-about-a-theme.pinedesk.biz