site: reviews — Datatype, Ants on a Turntable, Submarine Safari (graduate from finds)

daily-finds.log.md

@@ -4304,3 +4304,43 @@ Uncovered finds (11), none padded in: coast-mac-control-surface, etymologue, ram
 - **`rampage-trail-can-toolbox` + `pay-phone-charger` would have made an obvious "objects wearing another object's shape" bundle** — and `2026-07-25-wrapped-as-something-else` shipped exactly that theme three days ago. Refused as a near-duplicate; pay-phone-charger went to the handmade cluster instead, where its virtue is the hand-painting rather than the disguise, and rampage stays unbundled until the disguise angle has some distance on it.
 - **`osaurus`, `open-minis`, `imagin-raw-photo-browser`, `orate-mac-text-to-speech` and `coast-mac-control-surface` cluster cleanly as "no service in the middle"** — and that is `2026-07-11-nothing-leaves-the-device` under a different name. Held for the same reason.
 Ineligible (alcohol), excluded from the pool up front: fieldbar-mini-bar, do-your-whisky-whiskey-making-kit.
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+## 2026-07-28 — reviews: datatype-chart-font, ants-phenakistoscope-turntable, submarine-safari-tenerife
+
+Three graduations, all from today's shortlist, all three review candidates taken. Two of the three produced factual corrections that were pushed back into the find as well as stated in the review.
+
+### review: datatype-chart-font
+
+Graduated from find captured on 2026-07-28, source: Kottke.org.
+Hero: `promo-images/Pies.png` from the project's own repo — the pie glyph stepped from empty to full across four weight/width settings, 3240×1620, no marketing copy. Deliberately a *different* asset from the find's hero (`Table.png`, the stock table with inline sparklines) so the two pages do not show the same image. Both were found only because the repo turned out to ship a `promo-images/` folder; the site's published og.png is a title card and was rejected under the overlay-text rule.
+Category: design (existing).
+Fact-check: **find held up, with one correction.** Verified against the project README rather than the demo page. The find said "two variable axes tune density and stroke" — that phrasing came from the demo site's own copy and is wrong. The axes are the ordinary `wdth` (50–150) and `wght` (100–900); there is no bespoke density axis, and the point is precisely that the charts respond to standard type controls. The find was corrected before this commit. Also confirmed and added: a hard cap of **20 values per chart**, a **0–100 value range**, SIL Open Font License 1.1, WOFF2 for web and TTF for desktop, and credit to Frank Tisellano with guidance from Emma Marichal and Dave Lab6.
+Honest limitations surfaced: twenty points is a sparkline and not a time series; you must normalise to 0–100 yourself, so the font can never draw an axis, label, legend or tick; and the whole thing depends on OpenType ligatures being enabled — when they are not, the reader sees `{b:15,45,80}` sitting in the sentence.
+Amazon: n-a (a font).
+
+### review: ants-phenakistoscope-turntable
+
+Graduated from find captured on 2026-07-28, source: The Awesomer.
+Hero: the linked video's YouTube `maxresdefault` at 1280×720 — a hand mid-stroke drawing ant figures onto the paper disc, inspected by eye first and text-free. **Reused on both find and review**, which the skill permits as a fallback and which is recorded here as intentional: there is no richer first-party asset, the artist publishes no stills, and The Awesomer's post is Cloudflare-blocked to both curl and WebFetch.
+Category: design (existing).
+Fact-check: **find held up and was expanded.** The Awesomer's framing was verified independently through the YouTube oEmbed endpoint and a search of the artist's channel: **Yohei Kisanuki (木佐貫洋平), who publishes as LimbaTrip and is a professional kalimba player** — the phenakistoscope discs are a sideline on a channel that is otherwise thumb-piano performance. The linked video is titled 「蟻人間」メイキング動画, so the work itself is **蟻人間** ("ant men") and the video is explicitly the making-of, which matches how the find describes it. The Kid Should See This has covered the same artist's earlier discs (climbers, dancers, walkers) — that is also why it became this run's source nominee.
+Honest limitation surfaced: a phenakistoscope is a physical illusion, and a *video* of one is the camera's shutter doing the interrupting rather than your own eye. The review says so rather than pretending the recording is the artefact.
+Link note for the operator: the find and review link to the making-of video (`youtu.be/PG6DG3UXZxY`) because that is the only URL The Awesomer exposes that could be verified. The short piece it credits appears to live off-YouTube and its address could not be confirmed, so it was not guessed at.
+Amazon: n-a.
+
+### review: submarine-safari-tenerife
+
+Graduated from find captured on 2026-07-28, source: Atlas Obscura.
+Hero: the find's Atlas Obscura contributor photo, reused. Attempts at a first-party image failed in both directions — `submarinesafaris.com` is a JavaScript-rendered WordPress site that serves no usable `og:image` and only language-selector flags to curl, and its `wp-json/wp/v2/media` endpoint timed out at 25 seconds. The contributor shot is a photograph of the actual vessel at its actual mooring, which is the thing that matters.
+Category: places (existing).
+Fact-check: **two corrections and one attribution fix — the most substantive fact-check of the run.** Checked Atlas Obscura's contributor account against the operator's own pages, and the hero photograph against both.
+- **Capacity and depth.** The find, following Atlas Obscura, said the sub "can hold over 40 people", is "rated to 100 metres" and is "held to 30 with civilians". The operator publishes **44 seats, 22 view ports, and a descent of up to 30 metres**, and says nothing at all about a 100-metre rating. The find now carries the operator's figures; the review says plainly that thirty metres is the number to plan on and that the deeper rating is not something the company publishes.
+- **The manta rays are not the operator's claim.** The find said "the local manta rays come to meet it… divers make bubbles worth playing in", which is charming and is a *visitor's* account, not a promise. The operator advertises two wrecks on the seabed and schools of fish. The rays were cut from the find entirely and appear in the review only as what they are — someone's account, treated as a bonus rather than an itinerary.
+- **The boat has a name, and it was sitting in the hero.** Reading the photograph rather than only the text gave the vessel's name, **Sub Fun Cinco**, and its registration, **ANTWERPEN O 6260** — a Belgian port of registry, which is a better argument that this is a classed vessel than any brochure line. Both went into the review.
+Also confirmed: operating from Amarilla Marina, San Miguel de Abona since 2007; a sister boat at Puerto Calero, Lanzarote; the sub settles on the seabed partway through and passengers are invited forward to photograph the pilots; multilingual commentary and a dive certificate. **Not confirmed and now flagged as such:** the Finnish build in the 1990s is Atlas Obscura's contributor claim and the operator does not state a yard — the find's subtitle and description no longer assert it, and the review reports it as reported rather than verified.
+Amazon: n-a (an experience).
+
+### Considered and not graduated
+
+- **euro-banknote-design-proposals** was the fourth-ranked candidate and the closest call. Held deliberately: the ECB's shortlist is a live public consultation, the survey is open, and a review written today would be about a process whose outcome changes it. Better as a find now and a review when a design is chosen — at which point the story is *which* one won and why, which is the more interesting piece.
+- **yap-mac-dictation** and **etymologue** both clear the bar on substance but are heroless, and a review tile with no media is a poor trade when three hero-bearing candidates were available. Held as finds; both are strong candidates for a thinner day.