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Random design briefs with a countdown attached, for when the problem is not skill but having nothing to work on.

A first-person shooter in which every player is an egg and every hit is messy. Considerably better than that premise deserves.

A full year of merchant shipping movements animated on one dark globe and split by cargo type, which turns global trade into a visible swarm.

Search engine for internet-connected devices rather than pages: webcams, routers and industrial kit nobody meant to publish.

A daily high-resolution photograph from the early twentieth century, usually with commenters identifying the buildings.

Ragdoll obstacle course whose entire design goal is taking your stickman apart in an inventive new way each level.

Editorially curated short films, each with a proper write-up explaining why it was chosen, which is why the hit rate stays high.

A live feed of OpenStreetMap edits as they happen, zooming to each contributor's patch of the world one small correction at a time.

Doom compiled to WebAssembly and running at full speed in a tab, which is either nostalgia or a small engineering miracle.

Symmetrical generative art that blooms under the cursor, which everybody who touches it turns into a wallpaper factory.

A no-frills portal unusually strong on two-player games you can play on one keyboard with somebody sitting next to you.

A persistent economic simulation where thousands of players genuinely supply each other, so prices move for real reasons.

Forty logic puzzles on one page, each generated fresh and each solvable by pure reasoning. The interface is ancient and it does not matter.

Enter any two articles and get every shortest path of links between them, drawn as a graph you can drag.

An infinite canvas for rough diagrams and flows. Opens instantly with nothing to configure and no file to save first.

A better-drawn take on the guess-the-doodle format, with more brushes, custom word lists and rooms that hold a large group.

Full paint program in a tab — brushes, layers, filters and a stamp library — with nothing to install and nothing to pay.

Draw the word, guess everyone else's, share one link with the group. The default browser party game, and deservedly so.

The world's largest supplier of real and replica skulls, browsable by species, which is educational and mildly alarming in equal parts.

Live HD cameras on piazzas, beaches and ski slopes across Europe and beyond, which is the closest a browser tab gets to a day trip.

The seat-pocket catalogue survived the airline it came with and moved online, still selling garden yetis to a captive audience.

The custom emoji every workplace eventually accumulates, downloadable as a pack. The party parrot is in there.

Grow a snake on glowing pellets and cut other players off so they burst into more of them. The .io boom started here.

Roll a ball down an endless neon slope at rising speed until the geometry wins, which it always eventually does.

An endless procedurally generated drive through mountains and deserts, with no traffic, no timer and nothing to hit.

Three-minute kart deathmatches with weapon crates and absolutely no patience for anything resembling a racing line.

The National Zoo's cameras on lions, elephants and naked mole rats, publicly funded and refreshingly free of any advertising.

Millions of images and 3D scans from the Smithsonian's collections, released with no copyright restrictions at all.

Giant pandas eating bamboo, live from Washington, on the webcam that periodically takes down the zoo's own servers.

Deb Perelman cooking from a famously tiny New York kitchen since 2006, testing everything obsessively and writing about it well.

An endless sheet of virtual bubble wrap that pops under the cursor and quietly refills itself behind you.

The original rumour desk, still patiently establishing whether the thing your uncle forwarded actually happened.

Two-legged football played with a single key, in which the physics engine scores most of the actual goals.

Fast three-a-side football with sliding tackles and a World Cup bracket you can win inside a tea break.

Push crates into place in rooms built to punish the obvious first move, with thousands of community-made levels behind them.

Clean solitaire collection with hints, statistics and daily challenges spread across a dozen different variants.

Daily solitaire challenges dealt from guaranteed-winnable shuffles, with a leaderboard for people who want the streak.

Klondike that loads in under a second, with nothing on the page except green baize and the cards.

The newsroom that trains other newsrooms to cover responses instead of problems, with a searchable tracker of the results.

Listener-funded, advert-free channels out of San Francisco, Drone Zone and Groove Salad among them, going since the dial-up era.

Grid sequencer with a marimba and a drum kit, tuned so that anything you tap sounds passable, then shared as a link.

Rule a small kingdom by answering yes or no to whoever walks through the door, then watch the consequences quietly pile up.

The South Park character maker that has been running since 1999 and still gets updated with props from new episodes.

Ride a lift from the ground to geostationary orbit, passing every layer of atmosphere and satellite on the way.

The original film's promotional site, left online untouched for nearly thirty years and preserved when the sequel arrived.

Extrudes type into three dimensions, wraps it round shapes and lets it drift, exporting the result as a loop.

Solar flares, sunspot counts and geomagnetic storm levels in real time, plus the aurora forecast that decides whether tonight is worth the drive.

Code typing drills across a dozen languages, where the indentation is handled for you and the punctuation certainly is not.