Good on a phone

Blind items published daily since 2006, unverifiable by design, and treated as scripture by a very large comment section.

The biggest browser arcade going, with genuinely decent HTML5 ports and a search that mostly finds the game you meant.

A few hundred browser escape rooms in one filtered shelf, all running in the tab with nothing to install and nothing to buy.

The entire tower defence shelf in one place, sorted by how many people are currently playing, none of it requiring an account.

The tidied-up archive of internet horror folklore, from Slender Man to the stories a school friend swore blind were true.

Reader-submitted horror stories with narrated versions, sorted so you can pick your poison: rituals, dolls, or something in the loft.

Wordle in reverse: you are handed the green and yellow clues and have to reconstruct the guesses that could have produced them.

Frogger with better manners: hop a chicken across roads, rivers and railway lines until the inevitable lorry.

An explorable on how ideas and riots spread through a social network, with the contagion thresholds under your control.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

A 1996 US presidential campaign website, still up, still exactly as it was. An accidental museum of early political web design.

Hundreds of dress-up games covering mythology, history and fandoms, drawn by actual artists rather than an asset pipeline.

A curated DOS library with working touch controls, which makes it the rare emulator front end that is usable on a phone.

Pixel canvas designed for thumbs first, fed by a huge stream of daily themed drawings from a mostly Japanese community.

Paste a website address and learn whether it is down for the whole world or only for you. Settles the argument with your router in seconds.

Team drawing race: two teams, one word, and the first side to guess it takes the round. Faster and shoutier than the alternatives.

Telephone played with drawings: describe a picture, draw a description, and watch the chain derail over twelve steps.