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The same cruelty as QWOP, applied to climbing: every handhold is a different letter key and you have to hold several at once.

Long-running newsletter and link hoard for glitch art — tools, artists and the occasional genuinely disquieting find.

Industrial fishing vessel tracks worldwide, rebuilt from satellite signals, showing exactly where the world's fleets have been working.

Satellite-derived tree cover loss for anywhere on Earth, week by week, with alerts you can zoom in on until you are looking at one hillside.

One mystery country a day, guessed by warmth — every wrong answer shades the globe a little closer to the right one.

Name three bands you like, then answer yes or no to its guesses until it works out what you are actually in the mood for.

Red-carpet criticism written with real fashion knowledge and jokes aimed at the outfit rather than the person in it.

Curated wall of the best-designed sites on the internet, filterable by type and updated relentlessly.

Full-disc satellite imagery of the Americas straight from the GOES satellites, refreshed every few minutes at absurd resolution.

Drive a golf ball absurd distances, upgrade the swing, repeat until the ball is leaving the atmosphere entirely.

Good news with a nudge attached — every story arrives alongside something you could actually do about it.

Positive news published daily since 1997, back when the idea sounded like a joke rather than a business model.

Castle building and siege warfare with the exact aesthetics of an advert you have definitely been served, and better strategy underneath.

Gigapixel scans from two thousand museums, plus the experiments that let you find your own face in a painting.

The whole planet in 3D in a browser tab, with guided Voyager tours for when you would rather be told where to look than choose.

Family Fortunes played against Google autocomplete, which turns out to be a bleaker and much funnier opponent than a studio audience.

Plots how often a phrase appears across books printed since 1500. Watch a word arrive, peak, and quietly fall out of use.

Small library of ready-made gradients you nudge by dragging the angle, then copy straight into a stylesheet.

Draw a horse, then watch it gallop off to join the herd of terrible horses drawn by everybody else.

Tim Rowett's collection of optical toys and physics oddities, each demonstrated on camera by a man visibly delighted with all of it.

Solitaire variants you have never heard of, with a hint button and an interface built by somebody who actually plays them.

Choose ten items in the right order and the cube blossoms into something absurd; choose the wrong order and it sulks at you.

Comic-strip teardowns of real product decisions, each one explaining the psychology behind why it did or did not work.

Free cryptic, quick and Everyman crosswords every day, plus the setter blogs that explain each diabolical clue afterwards.

Look at a scatter plot and guess its correlation coefficient. A statistics lecture disguised as a slot machine, and it works.

A daily video game identified from progressively less obscure screenshots, with six guesses and a genuinely cruel first frame.

The official register of the longest, fastest and most improbable things people have done entirely on purpose.

A boarding-school story with robots, forest gods and a plot that has been quietly paying things off since 2005.

Daily coverage of hardware projects that had no commercial reason to exist. Reliably the most inventive corner of the web.

Grey text on beige, no images, and the best comment threads anywhere about how technical things actually work. Search covers twenty years.

Mash any keys and perfectly formatted code appears character by character, exactly as in every hacking scene ever filmed.

Generates blobs, waves, stacked layers and low-poly grids as SVG, all of them tweakable and all free to export.

Vector halftone generator that rebuilds an image out of dots, lines or waves and exports it as clean SVG.

Ragdoll obstacle courses in which the dad on the bicycle loses limbs to almost anything he touches, across millions of user levels.

Mr Doob's sketching toy, where strokes web themselves together with connecting threads and turn scribbles into shading.

One word of reassurance about the Large Hadron Collider, maintained since 2008 and still, reassuringly, saying no.

Seventeen million scanned volumes from research libraries, with full-text search running across the entire lot.

Football management one week at a time since 1997, with a transfer market and an economy run entirely by other managers.

Type an email address and find out which breaches it turned up in. Troy Hunt's index now covers billions of leaked accounts.

The cult's own website, left exactly as it was in 1997 and still quietly maintained. A sobering artefact rather than a joke.

Tells you exactly when the space station will pass over your garden, and which direction to look.

A superhero character creator with a costume parts library deep enough to have outlasted three separate web technologies.

Shoot the alien whose colour matches the hex code shown. Learning to read hex by sight is an accidental side effect.

Falling blocks rotated onto a hexagon and sped up, which sounds like a novelty and turns out to be genuinely hard.

Placeholder text made of artisanal nonsense, optionally cut with real Latin for clients who prefer not to notice.

Every event on Wikipedia plotted as a dot across fourteen billion years, filterable down to one category at a time.

Old photographs pinned to the exact street corner where they were taken, fading into the modern view behind.

Tens of thousands of hosted model demos, each running in a browser tab. The closest thing machine learning has to an arcade.