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Hand-listed index of useless websites, sorted into categories so you can choose your waste of time rather than roll for it.
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Pointless Sites sits in Portals & Directories under Weird, filed as coffee break.
About this category: The other directories, random buttons and curated indexes. We are one of these; it would be dishonest to pretend the others are not worth your time.
Yes. Pointless Sites is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Pointless Sites without signing up for anything.
Yes. Pointless Sites 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.
A daily leaderboard of new apps, sites and gadgets, upvoted by the people who make and use them. The place to spot a tool before everyone else does.
Crowd-sourced feed of well-made and gloriously pointless websites, and the closest thing left to a modern stumble button.
The Hacker News lane where people post things they built themselves: odd side projects, tiny tools and a frank comment thread under each one.
One button, escalating nonsense, and no way onward except pressing it again. Works on a phone, which is the danger.
A pastel multiplayer world whose real draw is the character creator, where people spend far longer than in the game itself.
Deadpan absurdism starring bears, birds and mildly disappointed men, published three times a week since 2008.
A British gossip newsletter of blind items and pop trivia, running since 2000 and still legally very careful.
Thousands of American industrial, educational and advertising films, all public domain and all quietly extraordinary.
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