Feels like magic

A reference of every chart type and what each is genuinely for, worth reading before defaulting to a bar chart.

A playable account of why cooperation appears and then collapses, using game theory and roughly ten minutes of attention.

Bisect angles, find midpoints and judge parallels by eye, then get told in pixels precisely how wrong you were.

Punk and hardcore scene satire, written by people who clearly still go to shows and still resent everyone there.

Multiple-choice questions where the correct answer is a pun, a trick or an outright lie, and three wrong ones end the whole run.

A student sold a million pixels of advertising at a dollar each in 2005. The mosaic is still up, and most of the links now go nowhere.

Long-form comics about grammar, cats, running and grief, from the man who also invented Exploding Kittens.

A proxy that serves archived pages as period browsers expected them, so a 1998 machine can still get online and see 1998.

The original fake newspaper, whose headlines get quoted as fact often enough to sustain a small correction industry.

Sixty-odd propositions place you on economic and social axes, then show you exactly where Thatcher and Gandhi ended up.

Visual essays answering questions nobody commissioned, like which pop lyricists have the largest working vocabulary.

Ten thousand sheep drawn by anonymous online workers paid two cents each, displayed together as one enormous grid.

Scroll outwards from a human to the observable universe, with each step making the previous one look absurd.

A crime you solve by writing database queries, and easily the least painful SQL tutorial ever built.

Drag countries across the Mercator projection and watch Greenland shrink to its actual size. Settles the argument in about ten seconds.

Race from one Wikipedia article to another using only links, against a clock and other people online.

A painting that zooms into itself forever, assembled by a dozen artists so carefully that the seams never quite show.

A huge, searchable index of AI tools sorted by the task they do, from writing cover letters to cleaning up audio. Useful and a little dizzying.

One photorealistic portrait of somebody who has never existed, regenerated on every refresh. The page that started the whole genre.

Invented dictionary entries complete with etymology and a usage example, none of them real words. Several of them deserve to be.

Superhot's trick in a browser: time only moves when you do, so every room becomes a slow-motion puzzle with guns.

Wikipedia's calmly written schedule of everything still to happen, ending long after the last star has gone out.

Reverse image search that finds the oldest copy of a picture rather than visually similar ones. The tool for tracing where a photo began.

Cast, catch, sell, upgrade the line, cast deeper. The loop is completely transparent and it still takes forty minutes off you.

A collection of single-purpose online tools for web makers, from favicon makers to CSS generators, sorted by topic and searchable in one box.

One line of maths drives a sixteen-by-sixteen grid of dots, and the gallery of what people fit into that line is humbling.

Tap any key in rhythm and it plays the next chunk of Clair de Lune, so timing is the only skill actually required.

Match-three fused with tower defence, so every swap you make is also the wave you are currently surviving.

Paste a single screenshot and it names the anime, the episode and the exact timestamp. Unreasonably accurate for something free.

Guess the country from a treemap of what it exports, which turns out to be an oddly precise national fingerprint.

Bounces a sentence between English and Japanese until the two versions agree, which they rarely do politely.

Get from one country to another by naming every country in between, with the shortest workable route scoring best.

Fly down a rotating tunnel of coloured obstacles quickly enough that your eyes take over the steering from your brain.

Write a Turing machine in a few lines and watch the tape head shuffle back and forth carrying it out.

Plotter art drawn by a virtual turtle in a hundred-odd lines of JavaScript, with everybody's source code on display.

A taxonomy of every storytelling device ever used, cross-linked so densely that leaving takes actual discipline.

The tool behind half the interactive fiction of the past decade, running in the browser and learnable in about twenty minutes.

Same idea as typing but with notes rather than drums — write a paragraph, receive a surprisingly pretty melody.

Type words and each letter becomes a drum hit, so your own name comes out as a loop you will struggle to stop playing.

Structured typing lessons with a hand diagram that shows precisely which finger you have been cheating with all along.

You are an AI told to make paperclips, and you follow that instruction all the way to its conclusion. Four hours, one button to begin.

A roguelike you escape by editing the JavaScript that builds each level, which is considerably more forgiving than it sounds.

Flips your sentence using Unicode lookalikes, so it survives a paste into anywhere that accepts plain text.

A small publisher of deliberately pointless web projects, including several gag sites you have probably been sent.

Boots Linux, Windows 98 and other complete operating systems in a tab, via an x86 emulator written in JavaScript.

The browser build of the auto-shooter that ate 2022: you only move, everything else fires itself, and the screen fills with skeletons.

Weather models rendered beautifully enough to watch for their own sake, with layers for wind, rain, snow depth and wave height.

Two decades of hand-picked short films, still the most reliable place online to find something beautiful in nine minutes.