Instant

Drag through a full-screen fluid that swirls and bleeds colour behind the cursor, at full frame rate even on a phone.

The planet chopped into three-metre squares, each given a three-word name, which is either brilliant or a licensing trap depending who you ask.

The space station's position, ground track and next passes over you, with an orbital countdown that is oddly hard to stop watching.

Search engine for hand-made pages in the spirit of the early web, with a surprise-me button that behaves exactly like 1998.

One click, one random Wikipedia article, repeated until the afternoon has quietly gone somewhere else.

The editors' own curated list of the encyclopedia's strangest entries, and the best rabbit hole entrance there is.

Wikipedia with a readable layout, a proper contents sidebar and images that stop fighting the text.

A dictionary of every word in every language, including etymologies, declension tables and regional slang.

The forecast as an animated map, with wind, waves, temperature and a dozen models to argue between, free and without an account.

Renders your text in every font installed on the machine at once, which is the fastest way ever devised to pick one.

A dictionary showing real usage, related words and examples pulled from the wild rather than agreed by committee.

Readings from thousands of air monitoring stations worldwide on one map, colour-coded from a calm green to a genuinely alarming maroon.

Live counters for population, emissions, water use and books published, ticking faster than is entirely comfortable.

A vast, barely filtered pile of browser games including a great many Flash-era oddities kept alive by an emulator.

Widely reckoned the strongest reverse image search for faces, places and heavily cropped photos. Worth trying when TinEye finds nothing.

Unicode styling for places that forbid formatting, so bold and italic survive a paste into a profile bio.

Old Faithful on a live feed, plus static cameras on the geyser basin and the north entrance, run by the National Park Service.

The Norwegian met office's forecast, famously accurate across Scandinavia and unusually calm about admitting uncertainty everywhere else.

Piles combining diacritics onto every character until your text bleeds into the lines above and below it.

You can do anything at Zombo.com. The welcome message has been loading since 1999 and it has never once explained itself.

Satellite imagery refreshed through the day, with storm tracks, wildfire hotspots and rainfall radar layered over the top of it.

A space shooter where you destroy incoming words by typing them, and rising panic is the entire difficulty curve.