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Encyclopaedia Britannica sits in Wiki Rabbit Holes under Learn, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Densely linked reference sites engineered — accidentally or otherwise — to make you click one more entry. The original rabbit holes.
Yes. Encyclopaedia Britannica is free to use and needs no account.
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Yes. Encyclopaedia Britannica works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Tens of thousands of fan-run wikis, each documenting one fictional universe in wholly unreasonable depth.
Wikipedia's index of its own indexes, which is either a long-running joke or the purest expression of the site.
Every Wikipedia edit as it happens, rendered as bells and strings, with each new user announced by a whisper.
The Star Trek wiki, maintained with the rigour of a national archive and roughly the same word count.
A scatterplot of six thousand music genres you have never heard of, each one clickable for a sample and a list of its bands.
All 2^122 version-four UUIDs listed in order with a working search box, on a page that should not be able to exist.
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.
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