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Where every cruise ship in the world currently is, with deck plans and itineraries attached, for reasons entirely your own.

Chain encoders and classical ciphers together and watch text transform between formats at each step.

Builds a gradient visually and hands over the CSS, including the awkward multi-stop and radial cases.

Recreate a target image in as few characters of CSS as possible, then watch somebody do it in half as many.

Sugar-coated filler text for wireframes, with sliders for exactly how sweet and how long the nonsense should be.

The volunteer-edited web directory that outlived DMOZ, still organising the internet into a category tree by hand.

Tower defence from the villain's side, defending your gems from heroes using demons, orcs and the undead.

Crude four-panel strips with a mean streak, running since 2005 and still finding fresh ways to end badly.

GCHQ's public knife for decoding and decrypting data, built by dragging operations into a pipeline.

The animator who taught the internet to be afraid of cows, with every looping nightmare he has made collected in one place.

A hundred consecutive interface prompts delivered by email — the sign-up flow, the 404 page, the calculator, day by day.

Long, carefully researched articles on forgotten disasters, obsessives and near misses from history.

Screenshots of manipulative interfaces caught in the wild, named and dissected. Grimly entertaining reading.

Space MMO from 2006 still full of people mining, shooting and complaining about the economy, all inside one browser tab.

A weekly newsletter of unusual public datasets, with an archive of thousands you had no idea were collected.

The charting tool most newsrooms quietly rely on, free at the sizes any one person will ever need.

Over a hundred thousand high-resolution scanned maps, georeferenced and free to zoom into more or less indefinitely.

Several hundred cipher, code and puzzle solvers in one place, from Caesar shifts to crossword pattern matching.

Field reports and photographs of American shopping centres in decline, written by people who cared about this long before it was an aesthetic.

Fast browser shooter with no account and no download: click, spawn, and get eliminated by somebody considerably better.

Harry Brignull's catalogue of interfaces built to trick people, complete with a hall of shame and the resulting case law.

Start as a shrimp, eat, evolve into something with teeth, and repeat in an ocean full of players doing exactly the same thing.

Google's hallucinating network turned into a service, still perfectly capable of putting dog faces into absolutely everything.

Fly a helicopter, wall off territory with towers, then defend the shape you just drew from everybody else.

Mix rain, keyboards, seagulls and a fireplace into one soundscape, then hand the whole mix to somebody as a single link.

A weekly newsletter of thoughtful links on design, technology and cities, with every past issue readable on the site without signing up.

German satirical news delivered with a completely straight face, plus a weekly video bulletin, running since 2008.

The 2007 original that turned maze building into a genre, played across a desktop with the icons still sitting on it.

A graphing calculator good enough that people make art with it — type a function and drag its parameters about.

Photographs of the city's abandoned schools and factories, paired with the records of the people who taught and worked in them.

Alarming research site about a chemical found in tumours, acid rain and every reservoir on earth. The chemical is water.

The original single-player dice conquest game: no accounts, no sound, no explanation, and still a perfect twenty minutes.

An avatar library where you can dial through a dozen illustration styles and copy the result straight out as an image.

A tank shooting polygons for experience, then branching down a surprisingly deep upgrade tree, from the maker of Agar.io.

Paste two blocks of text and get a colour-coded diff back immediately. Also handles PDFs, images and spreadsheets.

One search across thousands of American libraries, archives and museums, with curated exhibitions layered on top.

The same six panels of clip-art dinosaurs every day since 2003, with entirely different words in them each time.

A browsable index of every named dinosaur, with size comparisons and the period each one actually belonged to.

The catalogue of every physical release ever pressed, down to matrix numbers and pressing variants, plus what your copy is worth.

Ankh-Morpork rendered as a text world, with guilds, working shops and an obsessive attention to what Pratchett actually wrote.

Machine learning journal where every paper is an interactive diagram; publication has stopped, the back catalogue has not aged.

Turns any image into one-bit dithered grain, with a choice of classic algorithms and a two-colour palette picker.

Dithering aimed squarely at the chunky, ugly end of the spectrum, with palettes lifted from old hardware.

Serious dithering workbench with dozens of algorithms, custom palettes, live preview and a video mode as well.

Runs a standard or extended check to reveal which servers actually saw your DNS lookups. The quickest way to catch a VPN not doing its job.

A timer that counts how long you manage to do nothing at all. Move the mouse, press a key, or scroll and it starts again from zero.

Crowdsourced content warnings covering a hundred-odd specific triggers, so you can check beforehand rather than find out during.

Mine dogecoin with a shiba inu until you can afford to buy the moon. The year 2014, preserved in fully playable form.