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Sugar-coated filler text for wireframes, with sliders for exactly how sweet and how long the nonsense should be.

Several hundred cipher, code and puzzle solvers in one place, from Caesar shifts to crossword pattern matching.

Mix rain, keyboards, seagulls and a fireplace into one soundscape, then hand the whole mix to somebody as a single link.

A graphing calculator good enough that people make art with it — type a function and drag its parameters about.

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

A tank shooting polygons for experience, then branching down a surprisingly deep upgrade tree, from the maker of Agar.io.

Paste two blocks of text and get a colour-coded diff back immediately. Also handles PDFs, images and spreadsheets.

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.

Crowdsourced content warnings covering a hundred-odd specific triggers, so you can check beforehand rather than find out during.

Move the mouse and flowers, mushrooms and grass sprout underneath it while a music box plays. No tools, no undo, no point.

Dashcam footage of a city loop with the local radio playing over it, so you can drive slowly through Istanbul while answering email.

Search without the profile building, plus bang shortcuts that fire your query straight at another site. Type an exclamation and w for Wikipedia.

A rotating globe with every wind current on Earth drawn as moving lines, and layers underneath for ocean currents, particulates and the jet stream.

Thousands of public webcams pointed at squares, harbours, volcanoes and building sites, some with archives stretching back decades.

Drag left and right to slap a man in the face with an eel, at whatever speed the day seems to call for.

The carbon intensity of the grid across most of the world, coloured by how clean each country's electricity happens to be at this minute.

One sincere, specific compliment per click, written by people rather than generated. For days that have not gone well.

Every Google emoji mashup, searchable — pick two and get the official illustrated hybrid back as a PNG.

Search, click, paste, with nothing else on the page competing for attention, which is precisely the point.

Two emoji in, one hybrid out, with a randomiser for when you cannot decide which pairing to ruin next.

An ASCII horse whose legs continue for as long as you are willing to keep scrolling, which is longer than you think.

Paste a terrifying shell command and it pulls the whole thing apart, annotating every flag from the relevant man page.

The largest collection of live nature cams anywhere: bear falls, puppy rooms, osprey nests and coral reefs, all free and always running.

Full-screen fake update screens for every operating system, including the blue one, with a bar that never finishes.

Three infinite layers of colour falling forever over a low drone, from the net artist behind half the web's cult toys.

A fidget spinner you flick with the mouse, with physics good enough that people leave it running in a spare tab.

Searches the web for actual sound files by keyword, in a layout untouched since roughly 2003. Still the fastest route to a duck quack.

The pipe game its own creator pulled from the app stores for being too addictive, rebuilt and still ruining afternoons.

Every aircraft in the sky right now on one map. Click any of them for the route, the aircraft type and how far it still has to go.

A browser home screen with a clock, timer, lofi and a to-do list, arranged to look calmer than your actual desktop.

Paint with thick wet oils that pile up, smear and catch the light exactly like the real thing, entirely in a browser tab.

Suggests font pairings from a model trained on type, with locks so you can hold one face and reroll the other.

Plays tracks that nobody has ever streamed, not once. The play counter is the whole point, and the music is exactly as advertised.

Native speakers pronouncing individual words in hundreds of languages, for when a phonetic spelling is not enough.

A grid of small games and nothing else — no descriptions, no ratings, no explanation, exactly as it was in 2010.

Conway's cellular automaton with a library of known patterns, still the clearest demonstration that rules alone make worlds.

A large casual portal aimed squarely at people who want a match-three game and no further conversation about it.

Plain page of every emoji, grouped and clickable, for the machines that have no emoji keyboard worth using.

The GIF search engine everything else plugs into, still the fastest route to the exact reaction you have in mind.

Full-disc satellite imagery of the Americas straight from the GOES satellites, refreshed every few minutes at absurd resolution.

Small library of ready-made gradients you nudge by dragging the angle, then copy straight into a stylesheet.

Draw a horse, then watch it gallop off to join the herd of terrible horses drawn by everybody else.

Mash any keys and perfectly formatted code appears character by character, exactly as in every hacking scene ever filmed.

Mr Doob's sketching toy, where strokes web themselves together with connecting threads and turn scribbles into shading.

One word of reassurance about the Large Hadron Collider, maintained since 2008 and still, reassuringly, saying no.

Type an email address and find out which breaches it turned up in. Troy Hunt's index now covers billions of leaked accounts.

Placeholder text made of artisanal nonsense, optionally cut with real Latin for clients who prefer not to notice.

Reaction time, sequence memory, the chimp test and verbal memory, each scored against millions of other people's attempts.