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     Thursday, June 26, 2025
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Topic: hobbies

Neocities is a fun place where people can set up their own personal sites for free. It has a cool informal vibe. Here are examples of awesome Neocities sites.

Just being about an unusual, interesting or personal topic was not enough to qualify for inclusion here. The sites in this article all have something highly original in terms of artwork, the coding, and/ or somehow add another dimension as compared with other sites on Neocities or elsewhere on the internet.

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When you look at your progress in your current league on Duolingo, you'll notice that some people have a little status icon (kind of like an emoji) shown next to their profile picture, as you can see in the image above. But how do you change this icon or remove it completely? It's easy to do, but it's not at all intuitive. Here is an illustrated tutorial for how to change your status mini-icon in Duolingo. This method works for both Android and iPhone at the time of writing.

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If you're a fan of Tropico, good news: there are other games out there which are similar to the style of gameplay of Tropico 6 or its predecessors. Here are the best games like Tropico. Most of these (but not all!) are strategy based city building games, although the word "city" is used loosely here to mean anything from a city to a country.

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Painted rocks look fun - they're a beautiful yet not overly serious looking craft. But you might be wondering what you can do with your painted rocks. They're neat, so it's easy to accumulate more than you had intended of these when you wind up buying painted rocks for sale, or when a friend gives you a painted rock as a gift, or maybe you're an artist yourself who has generated quite a collection of your own rock art.

Here are plenty of options for how to use painted rocks.

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