✨ Beautiful

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.

Rhizome's restored survey of a hundred works of net art, each with the context needed to understand why it mattered.

A British studio that made pixel-perfect browser games for fifteen years and then put the entire back catalogue up free.

The thirty-minute aurora forecast as an oval of probability drawn over the poles, which is the only honest way to plan a night out for it.

Nine hundred thousand digitised items from the New York Public Library, a large share of it public domain.

Search hundreds of thousands of scanned historical maps by place and date, held by libraries worldwide.

Eighty thousand New York photographs from the 1870s onwards, mapped to the corners they were shot on.

One minute of footage from a park somewhere in the world, matched to the exact minute you happen to be watching.

Twenty years of large-format photography inside abandoned asylums, power stations and factories, catalogued site by site.

A hand-drawn library of mix-and-match people, free for anything, and quietly the source of half the internet's illustrations.

Open-source emoji set drawn by design students, free to use, and in several places noticeably better than the defaults.

Gallery of Processing and p5.js sketches where every piece runs in the page and the source is right there to fork.

Colourises black-and-white photographs, then lets you steer the result by describing the colours you wanted in words.

Home of Submachine and Daymare Town, Mateusz Skutnik's sketched, wordless worlds built entirely out of corridors and quiet dread.

Every letter on the keyboard fires a sound and a matching shape, and mashing the whole row is the correct way to use it.

A hand-drawn character builder in the Open Peeps style, producing an avatar that does not look machine-generated.

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.

Two decades of the pixel art scene's best work, still curated by hand and still running weekly drawing challenges.

Low-poly time trials with a built-in track editor, hundredth-of-a-second leaderboards and a restart key you will wear out.

An eternal-summer radio station dressed as an old Macintosh desktop, playing the soundtrack to a holiday you never actually took.

Zach Gage's daily puzzle collection — Cross|word, Flipart, Really Bad Chess — with the best interface in the genre by a distance.

The scene's main feed: databent photos, broken televisions and corrupted video, with the technique usually in the comments.

Spin a globe covered in green dots and drop the needle on a live local station anywhere on Earth. The buffering is part of the charm.

Pick a country and a decade on a world map and hear what people there were actually listening to, curated by humans since 1900.

Thousands of marketing emails collected and searchable, which is the only sane way to go about designing one.

The Cube Escape series in full and free — bleak Dutch point-and-click rooms with a lake, a lot of birds and a plot you assemble sideways.

The first Samorost, free in the browser, a wordless point-and-click about a small gnome diverting a planet off a collision course.

Rough sketch in, finished image out, with the result following your actual lines rather than politely ignoring them.

Brown University's visual introduction to probability and statistics, one animated chapter per concept.

Thousands of full-screen graphics experiments, each one a few hundred lines of maths you can read and edit live.

A full year of merchant shipping movements animated on one dark globe and split by cargo type, which turns global trade into a visible swarm.

A daily high-resolution photograph from the early twentieth century, usually with commenters identifying the buildings.

Editorially curated short films, each with a proper write-up explaining why it was chosen, which is why the hit rate stays high.

Symmetrical generative art that blooms under the cursor, which everybody who touches it turns into a wallpaper factory.

Live HD cameras on piazzas, beaches and ski slopes across Europe and beyond, which is the closest a browser tab gets to a day trip.

An endless procedurally generated drive through mountains and deserts, with no traffic, no timer and nothing to hit.

Millions of images and 3D scans from the Smithsonian's collections, released with no copyright restrictions at all.

Extrudes type into three dimensions, wraps it round shapes and lets it drift, exporting the result as a loop.

Solar flares, sunspot counts and geomagnetic storm levels in real time, plus the aurora forecast that decides whether tonight is worth the drive.

Public domain classics reset properly — typography fixed, typos corrected, covers designed — and then given away.

The planetarium in a browser tab — set your location and it shows exactly what is above you right now.

The actual cables carrying the internet between continents, each one named, with its landing points and the year it went live.

Board games rendered as physical objects on a 3D table with no rules enforcement, so you can still play badly like at home.

The gentle way into fragment shaders, with every example editable in the page and redrawing itself as you type.

Scroll from the surface to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, meeting every creature at the depth it actually lives.