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Twenty-five years of accidentally poetic English on packaging and signage, photographed across East Asia.

A daily firehose of new escape games from Japanese and indie developers, with walkthroughs in the comments for when you stall.

Thousands of strangers claim to have dreamt the same face. Read the whole thing: the explanation is better than the hoax.

All 2^122 version-four UUIDs listed in order with a working search box, on a page that should not be able to exist.

Infinite pixel canvas anybody can paint on live, with no undo, no brief and no moderation queue worth mentioning.

Found VHS footage cut into collages by a collective that also owns most of the world's remaining copies of Jerry Maguire.

Writing community from 1999 where each subject gets personal essays instead of an encyclopaedia entry, and the tone never settles.

Design a creature from joints and muscles, then watch a genetic algorithm spend hundreds of generations teaching it to limp.

Philosophers dropped into absurd situations, with an explanatory footnote in case you skipped that seminar.

The largest collection of live nature cams anywhere: bear falls, puppy rooms, osprey nests and coral reefs, all free and always running.

Home of the GROW games, where you choose an order for a handful of objects and then watch a tiny world assemble or fail.

Full-screen fake update screens for every operating system, including the blue one, with a bar that never finishes.

London has been dragged underground by bats, and the writing is far better than that sentence suggests. Free, endless, faintly sinister.

Accurately drawn birds swearing at each other about territory, mating and the general indignity of being a bird.

Who was born today, ranked by fame, drawn from a database heavy with teenagers famous on exactly one platform.

Build a machine from wheels and rods to push a ball into a zone, and accept that it will topple over the first nine times.

US government training films liberated from federal vaults. Sincere, badly acted, and occasionally about surviving a nuclear attack.

A voice shouts COW louder as your cursor gets closer to an invisible cow, and that is the entire game.

Searches the web for actual sound files by keyword, in a layout untouched since roughly 2003. Still the fastest route to a duck quack.

British gift shop with a taste for the daft and mildly rude, plus the occasional genuinely good bit of kit hidden among it.

The two-person studio behind the entire Papa's restaurant series, with the back catalogue and the odd non-cooking game too.

Three dishes a day and you name the country that cooks them, which teaches more about world cuisine than it means to.

Matches ingredients by shared aroma compounds, which is roughly how chocolate and blue cheese ended up on the same plate.

Plays tracks that nobody has ever streamed, not once. The play counter is the whole point, and the music is exactly as advertised.

Native speakers pronouncing individual words in hundreds of languages, for when a phonetic spelling is not enough.

Home-video horrors rescued from charity shops and skips, curated by two men with an unhealthy commitment to the format.

Properly licensed free downloads curated by radio stations, which is how you stop losing your videos to copyright claims.

Answer vocabulary questions and the ad revenue goes to the UN World Food Programme. Running since 2007 and still counting grains.

A grid of small games and nothing else — no descriptions, no ratings, no explanation, exactly as it was in 2010.

Opens as a dismal educational maths game about a frog eating flies, and then keeps going somewhere else entirely. Say nothing more.

Every symbol, alphabet and text decoration you might want to paste somewhere, organised well enough to find one.

A daily gleaning of curiosities, lateral puzzles and pleasing coincidences, kept up since 2005 without fuss.

A hosting hub for hundreds of amateur incremental games, sorted and playable in the page. Where the genre does its experiments.

Part indie games host, part social network, where horror fan games and unfinished experiments live cheerfully side by side.

A shelf of room-code party games — spy, drawing, word association, trivia — all free, all in one place, none needing an app.

The full arcade — hundreds of browser games sorted by type, all playable immediately with nothing to install.

Broken telephone with drawings: a sentence becomes a picture becomes a sentence, and the album at the end is the whole payoff.

Twenty-odd fake hacking interfaces — agency mainframes, terminals, satellite maps — with buttons that fill progress bars.

A genetic algorithm evolves two-dimensional cars across rough terrain while you watch generations fail forward.

A search engine for animated GIFs recovered from GeoCities. Type any word and receive several spinning versions of it.

The GIF search engine everything else plugs into, still the fastest route to the exact reaction you have in mind.

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.

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

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.

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