Good on a phone

Guess the country from its silhouette alone, with each miss handing you the distance and compass bearing to the real answer.

Live counters for population, emissions, water use and books published, ticking faster than is entirely comfortable.

Pixel canvas laid over a world map where you claim a handful of tiles at a time and defend them against the neighbouring country.

Recordings of very nearly every bird call on earth, uploaded by amateurs and searchable by species, country and even call type.

One expanding circle to breathe along with, adjustable to box breathing or 4-7-8, and nothing else on the page.

Stick figures on romance, sarcasm, maths and language, with a second joke in the alt text of every single strip.

Widely reckoned the strongest reverse image search for faces, places and heavily cropped photos. Worth trying when TinEye finds nothing.

Unicode styling for places that forbid formatting, so bold and italic survive a paste into a profile bio.

Old Faithful on a live feed, plus static cameras on the geyser basin and the north entrance, run by the National Park Service.

Nonprofit solutions journalism on climate, housing and democracy — more sober than cheerful, but pointed the same way.

Two decades of first-person hauntings submitted by the public, filed by country and picked apart politely in the comments.

The Norwegian met office's forecast, famously accurate across Scandinavia and unusually calm about admitting uncertainty everywhere else.

Piles combining diacritics onto every character until your text bleeds into the lines above and below it.

You can do anything at Zombo.com. The welcome message has been loading since 1999 and it has never once explained itself.

Top-down battle royale for a hundred players with a full match inside five minutes, no download and no launcher to update.

Newborn animals from zoos and aquariums worldwide, with their names, weights and the keepers' notes attached.

Satellite imagery refreshed through the day, with storm tracks, wildfire hotspots and rainfall radar layered over the top of it.

The sequel quilt, darker and stranger than the first, still folding into itself with no end and no explanation.

Real research that needs human eyes: classify galaxies, transcribe ships' logs or count penguins, and end up in a published paper.