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The manga-side release tracker, covering scanlation status and licensing across tens of thousands of series since 2001.
Colour in countries, states or regions and export the result, which is where most of the maps you see argued about online are made.
Street-level photography stitched together from volunteers' dashcams and phones, covering a great many roads no Google car ever drove down.
An index deliberately built to favour text-heavy non-commercial pages. Ranking that punishes ad load instead of rewarding it.
Virtual trading contests running on live market data, playable against colleagues without anybody risking actual money.
Industrial supply catalogue with half a million parts, organised so well that engineers browse it purely for pleasure.
Every part of a wristwatch exploded and animated in sequence, until the escapement finally makes sense.
A platform where creators publish their own dress-up games, which is largely how the genre survived the death of Flash.
The one free IQ test people actually cite: thirty-five matrix puzzles, twenty-five minutes, no email address demanded at the end.
Trivia and origin stories written for the sort of person who reads the plaque next to the exhibit.
Name every station on a city's metro map from memory, and find out how many lines you use daily without ever reading.
Long-running blog of illusions and visual puzzles, from classic ambiguous figures to whichever dress the internet is arguing about.
Proper Minesweeper with leaderboards, no-guess boards and enough statistics to prove you are worse at it than you thought.
Proper miniature golf courses with believable putting physics and no time pressure applied at any point.
Build a convincing fake post, chat or notification for a joke or a mockup. Watermarked so nobody mistakes it for the real thing.
A live tank of sea nettles drifting in blue water, which has been the internet's default calming video for years.
Chop wood, raise windmills, then defend them from players who would much rather take yours than build their own.
MIT's trolley problem for driverless cars: decide who the car kills, thirteen times over, then read your own bias summarised back.
Builds a photo mosaic out of hundreds of your other photos, free to make and zoomable right down to each tile.
Time-trial motorbike stunts across levels engineered to kill you in a slightly funnier way on each attempt.
The bike stunt series relocated to a water park, where the traps are inflatable and no less lethal for it.
Thousands of DOS games, each booting in the browser on click. No download, no configuration, no floppy disk swapping.
A daily logic murder mystery with suspects, weapons and locations, solved by grid deduction in about ten minutes.
Art too bad to be ignored, collected since 1993 and catalogued with entirely straight-faced curatorial commentary.
Los Angeles museum whose exhibits may or may not be true, with a website built in exactly the same ambiguous spirit.
The open music encyclopedia much of the industry quietly relies on, editable by anybody and free of any label's marketing department.
Long beatless mixes chosen for the state of mind where code actually goes in, delivered as plain numbered episodes.
Hundreds of calibrated soundscapes with ten-slider equalisers, built by an audio engineer who takes tinnitus relief seriously.
Fictional US national park built inside a colossal living organism, documented entirely as tourist brochures and incident reports.
Live tracking for thousands of satellites, with pass predictions for your postcode and a map of everything above you right now.
The American government's public database of missing and unidentified persons, searchable by absolutely anyone.
Capture the flag with bows and low-poly castles, where arcing a shot over a wall beats raw reflexes almost every time.
Every photograph, video and audio recording NASA has released, searchable and free to use for anything.
The full NASA satellite archive as daily global mosaics, with a date slider you can drag back two decades to watch ice, dust and smoke move.
Canada put its entire animation and documentary archive online for free, and some of it is the strangest work any government ever funded.
Georeferenced Ordnance Survey sheets you can fade against satellite imagery to see exactly what got demolished.
Run a country by answering one absurd policy dilemma a day, then watch your statistics drift somewhere you did not intend.
The live feed from a deep-sea research ship's remote submersible, complete with scientists audibly losing composure over a new sea cucumber.
A blog of neat things — odd history, strange products, good comics — running since 2005 with no algorithm involved.
Board games rebuilt for a group on a video call, with each person playing from their own phone. Codenames and Wavelength included.
The studio behind Bloons, with a browser games shelf that still hosts the tower defence titles the genre was built on.
Racing where the accelerator is your typing speed, making it the only competitive driving game that leaves you better at something.
A British studio that made pixel-perfect browser games for fifteen years and then put the entire back catalogue up free.
Everybody notable enough for a Wikipedia entry, plotted at their birthplace, so you can find out who else came from your town.
Minecraft skin editor with a 3D preview you can spin, plus a gallery of other people's skins to take apart and reuse.
London online radio with thousands of shows in the archive, most presented by somebody with an unreasonable record collection.
Nine hundred thousand digitised items from the New York Public Library, a large share of it public domain.
Notebooks for building charts in the browser, with a public gallery of thousands you can fork and pull apart.
One button, one detour. Press it as often as you like.