---
title: "Manufactured delight"
date: 2026-05-03
tags: [daily-finds, general-delight, play]
description: "Four things that exist for no reason except that someone wanted them to — a microscope archive of beach sand, 169 games for unconventional places, the bluffing card game everyone is lying about, and a search engine that renders in 1995 browsers."
blurb: "Four labors of love whose only excuse is that someone wanted them to exist."
items:
  - magnifiedsand
  - unruly-play-archive
  - skull-bluffing-card-game
  - frogfind
---

> Some things exist for no good reason — only that someone wanted them to, and the wanting was contagious. A one-person archive of beach sand photographed under a microscope. An archive of 169 unconventional games designed for escalators, parking lots, and library stacks. The smallest possible bluffing card game (three roses, one skull, twenty minutes). And a search engine that renders in browsers from 1995, which turns out to be a lovely way to read the modern web too.
