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Daily science news with a weakness for the strange finds — mummies, deep sea oddities, cosmic near misses.

Live air traffic control audio from towers around the world, so you can listen to a controller sequencing arrivals into Heathrow while you work.

Seasonal chart of everything currently airing, with countdowns to the next episode and which service is carrying it.

A clean one-minute test built by a support software company that had a very direct professional interest in typing speed.

Clickable map quizzes for every region on Earth, unfashionable in design and better than everything that has replaced it.

A link aggregator about computing that anyone can read: smaller, quieter and more carefully tagged than the big tech news sites.

Analogue horror shaped like a small-town TV station's broadcast archive, including the night it advised everyone to look up.

The endless study-beats stream that turned into a genre, plus the label archive behind the girl who never stops revising.

A looping animated café with lofi streams and rain sliders, built to be left open in a corner of the screen all day.

A fake executive dashboard of charts and metrics that keeps updating itself while you stare thoughtfully past it.

Draw circles and arrows, press play, and your scribble runs as a working feedback-loop simulation.

The canonical placeholder text, plus the Cicero passage it was cut from and an explanation of what it says.

Thousands of curated palettes, from Game Boy green to 64-colour monsters, each downloadable in every format going.

Browser sprite editor built around palette discipline, with the specific constraints pixel artists keep asking for.

The looser, stranger sibling of the main lost media wiki, with more speculation and considerably more unresolved threads.

A solar-powered website that can go offline in bad weather, publishing long, careful articles on old and low-energy technologies.

The best-known brain-training subscription, with a free daily set of games and rather a lot of graphs about your own decline.

The official Escher archive: the impossible staircases, the tessellations, and his own notes on how he worked them out.

Korean home cooking taught with video for everything, including how to make the kimchi rather than quietly buy a jar of it.

A convincing macOS desktop rebuilt in Svelte, dock animations included, running entirely inside the browser.

The same ramp-covered playground with strangers in it, all attempting the same enormous jump and all missing it.

An empty city full of ramps and supercars with no objectives at all, which turns out to be the entire objective.

Official home of the autostereograms from every 1990s shopping centre, with a fresh one each week to go cross-eyed at.

Deliberately tiny paint tool inside a fake old window, with fat pixels and a palette that makes clumsy art look intentional.

One button, one progress bar, and the firm assurance that everything is now OK, which beats the alternative.

Everyone captions the same image, then votes on the best one. Rounds are short and a group works out its own humour quickly.

The maker movement's own magazine: projects, tool reviews and the long-running argument about what counts as making something.

Generate a fake newspaper clipping, a talking animation or a ransom note. The 2005 internet, rebuilt so it still works.

Vintage photographs of shopping centres in their fountains-and-ferns prime, scanned from postcards and other people's family albums.

Kaleidoscopic drawing surface with adjustable mirror counts, so one wobbly line comes back as a symmetrical mandala.

Zoom into the Mandelbrot set as far as the arithmetic allows, with palette controls and no plugin to install.

The manga-side release tracker, covering scanlation status and licensing across tens of thousands of series since 2001.

Millions of product manuals as PDFs, for the appliance whose paperwork went in the recycling back in 2011.

Every open source project plotted as a landmass, with related repositories clustering into continents you can pan across.

Colour in countries, states or regions and export the result, which is where most of the maps you see argued about online are made.

Drops you on a random road somewhere on Earth in Street View and leaves you to work out where you are, or simply wander off down it.

Street-level photography stitched together from volunteers' dashcams and phones, covering a great many roads no Google car ever drove down.

An index deliberately built to favour text-heavy non-commercial pages. Ranking that punishes ad load instead of rewarding it.

Pomodoro, custom and kitchen-timer modes with a shareable link, so a whole team can run the same twenty-five minutes.

Live positions of the world's merchant fleet, container ships down to tugs, most vessels with photographs taken by shore spotters.

Virtual trading contests running on live market data, playable against colleagues without anybody risking actual money.

A meticulous recreation of the falling green glyphs, with settings for every version of the effect across the films.

Live map of which McDonald's ice cream machines are broken, built by repeatedly adding a sundae to a cart. Petty, rigorous, brilliant.

Industrial supply catalogue with half a million parts, organised so well that engineers browse it purely for pleasure.

Every part of a wristwatch exploded and animated in sequence, until the escapement finally makes sense.

Scanned film and broadcasting trade magazines going back to 1904, searchable in full text. The industry writing about itself, live.

A platform where creators publish their own dress-up games, which is largely how the genre survived the death of Flash.

A hand-built indie web hub with a forum, a club of personal sites and guides to making your own homepage the old-fashioned way.