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Sites that land in one sentence of setup — the ones you send to a group chat rather than bookmark for yourself.
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A library of specific, doable kindness ideas and the research on why doing them helps the doer as much as the recipient.
One button, one random inhabited spot on Earth in Street View, most of them somewhere nobody would ever have chosen to look.
Blows one image up into a multi-page halftone poster that you print at home and tape across an entire wall.
A short typing course with a certificate at the end, oddly motivating for something nobody will ever ask you to show.
A snarkier reference work covering pseudoscience, conspiracy theories and the people making a living from them.
David Byrne's magazine about things that are demonstrably working somewhere, reported at length rather than as a listicle.
Women's magazine parody with headlines observed so precisely that they read as criticism rather than jokes.
Leaves a trail of emoji behind your cursor. There is nothing more to it than that, and nothing more is needed.
Finds your nearest free community workshop where volunteers help you fix the thing instead of replacing it. Thousands worldwide now.
A hundred yes-or-no questions about things you may have done, counted downward from 100. A student rite of passage since the 1980s.
The definitive index of American roadside oddities: the giant fibreglass animals, the museums devoted to exactly one thing.
Two-button duel on a rooftop where recoil, rather than aim, decides which of you falls off the building first.
Sandwiches rotating slowly on a loop, under a tagline that reads simply, and accurately, that's it.
Three colour fields flipping between red, green and blue as you move, a fixture of the useless-web canon and a strobe risk.
Tells you the best three minutes to leave for the toilet during any film, and summarises exactly what you missed. Absurd, and it works.
Live cameras on pandas, penguins, apes and elephants, with keepers wandering into shot at feeding time and narrating as they go.
Daily gag strips about science, philosophy and human awfulness, each hiding an extra panel behind the red button.
Conservation campaign for a cephalopod that lives in trees, used for over twenty years to teach children about checking sources.
Collaborative fiction dressed as containment paperwork for anomalous objects, written by thousands of people in one clinical deadpan.
One piano, several people, one link — everybody's keys light up in a different colour and it descends into noise fast.
A first-person shooter in which every player is an egg and every hit is messy. Considerably better than that premise deserves.
Ragdoll obstacle course whose entire design goal is taking your stickman apart in an inventive new way each level.
A live feed of OpenStreetMap edits as they happen, zooming to each contributor's patch of the world one small correction at a time.
A no-frills portal unusually strong on two-player games you can play on one keyboard with somebody sitting next to you.
A better-drawn take on the guess-the-doodle format, with more brushes, custom word lists and rooms that hold a large group.
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.
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.
The National Zoo's cameras on lions, elephants and naked mole rats, publicly funded and refreshingly free of any advertising.
Giant pandas eating bamboo, live from Washington, on the webcam that periodically takes down the zoo's own servers.
Two-legged football played with a single key, in which the physics engine scores most of the actual goals.
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.
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.
A hundred billion dollars and a shopping list running from Big Macs to aircraft carriers, and it is harder to spend than you expect.
NASA's tracker for when the space station is visible from where you live, with sighting alerts by email.
Everyone knows the location except the spy, who has to bluff through the questioning without ever revealing they have no idea.
Wiggle the mouse and a black worm follows; wiggle harder and it strobes violently, so treat the epilepsy warning seriously.
Swing a stick figure between grapple points using one button, then trust momentum to carry the mistake.
An idle game that keeps buying you more stimulation until the page is a lo-fi stream, a podcast and a fidget spinner at once.
Gag gift shop selling the same reliable nonsense since the dot-com boom, on a layout that has aged in real time.
Good news, funny pictures and a daily dose of animals, assembled with no interest whatsoever in what is trending.
Non-commercial web search indexing only pages carrying no ads or trackers at all. A very small and very different internet.
The other GIF keyboard, with better tagging for reaction clips and a sticker library your phone already quietly uses.
One click copies the Lenny face, the shrug or the look of disapproval to your clipboard, correctly escaped.