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Single-round games and one-shot toys. Long enough to be satisfying, short enough that walking away costs nothing.
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A fake enterprise interface that rewards clicking dialogue boxes with more dialogue boxes, by an art-games designer.
Kaomoji, dongers and text faces sorted by category, with a copy button attached to every single one of them.
Net art from 1995 that looks precisely like your computer failing. View the source: the mess on screen is hiding the actual work.
Thousands of Japanese emoticons sorted by emotion, running from mild confusion all the way to full table flipping.
One golf hole a day, built to look trivial and then take nine attempts, with a score everybody can compare.
Looks like a plain platformer until the floor vanishes, the ceiling drops and the exit walks away. Trolling you is the actual mechanic.
Millions of chess tactics pulled from real games and served at exactly your rating, entirely free and with no account required.
Travel outwards at light speed while hearing which radio hits have reached each distance, oldest at the far edge.
Fakes a phone's live activity banner — a food delivery, a match score, a boarding pass — for screenshots and mockups.
Seasonal chart of everything currently airing, with countdowns to the next episode and which service is carrying it.
A fake executive dashboard of charts and metrics that keeps updating itself while you stare thoughtfully past it.
Official home of the autostereograms from every 1990s shopping centre, with a fresh one each week to go cross-eyed at.
Generate a fake newspaper clipping, a talking animation or a ransom note. The 2005 internet, rebuilt so it still works.
Every open source project plotted as a landmass, with related repositories clustering into continents you can pan across.
Hundreds of matching-pair memory games plus Simon-style sequences, scaled from toddler difficulty to genuinely unpleasant.
Vocabulary drills built around clips of native speakers saying the phrase in an actual street.
Weighted average of professional reviews on a 0-100 scale, with the user score shown separately when the two disagree loudly.
Multi-model forecasts with a meteogram showing how confident the models actually are, which most weather apps quietly decline to admit.
Search the web with the top million most popular sites removed. What is left is the internet nobody bothers optimising for.
The 2000s browser giant, now mostly a mobile publisher but still hosting 8 Ball Pool and a shelf of its own history.
Search any molecule and spin its three-dimensional structure, with spectra and crystal data alongside it.
Filters every streaming catalogue at once by genre, rating and service, then hands you exactly one thing to watch.
Click a dial-up modem, a Nokia ringtone or a VHS rewinder and remember precisely where you were standing at the time.
Type a band and get a cloud of other bands, positioned by how often listeners like both. Crude, ancient and still weirdly effective.
Type a surname and get where it came from, what it originally meant and where in the world it still clusters.
The official Atlantic and Pacific hurricane advisories, cones of uncertainty and discussion notes written in plain prose by duty forecasters.
Wordle for equations: eight tiles holding one arithmetic statement that has to balance as well as being correct.
UK spoof news updated several times a day, best read as running commentary on whatever is currently going wrong.
A morning briefing of good stories, written for people who want a news habit that does not ruin breakfast.
Fast, minimal tracker that pings you the moment a followed episode airs. Open source and deliberately kept lightweight.
One well-sourced strange story per weekday, told at exactly the length of a cup of coffee.
A million checkboxes shared by everyone at once. Ticking them was pointless right up until people started writing messages in binary.
One minute of footage from a park somewhere in the world, matched to the exact minute you happen to be watching.
Scan a barcode and get ingredients, additives and a nutrition score from a database anyone can edit. Wikipedia for groceries.
A hand-drawn library of mix-and-match people, free for anything, and quietly the source of half the internet's illustrations.
Searches around a billion openly licensed images and audio files, with the licence terms attached to every single result.
A sealed glass sphere of water, sand and brine shrimp that you seed and then leave running, ecosystem permitting.
Colourises black-and-white photographs, then lets you steer the result by describing the colours you wanted in words.
Fold a paper plane, throw it, and catch one somebody launched in another country. Nothing else happens, which is the point.
Race a crowd of runners up a rooftop obstacle course where the only real skill is jumping at the right half-second.
Penalty shootouts through a whole tournament, against a keeper who reads your run-up better than you would like.
Draw a circle with one unbroken stroke and get scored on how round it actually was. Nobody beats 97% on a trackpad.
Sixteen questions sort you into one of Pew's nine American political groups, with a decade of real survey data behind every one.
Puts your face on billboards, banknotes and museum walls using several hundred templates. Aggressively 2009.
Airtight's glitch lab, stacking VHS tracking errors, pixel sorting and RGB shift over a photo, a clip or your webcam.
A Japanese platform hosting tens of thousands of illustrator-made avatar makers, each one in a completely different style.
Names a pixel size and asks you to drag a box exactly that big. Nobody is as good at this as they assume.
Feed it a photograph and it hands back a pixel-art version, with block size and palette entirely under your control.
One button, one detour. Press it as often as you like.