🐶 Wholesome

A countdown of a thousand small good things, from the cold side of the pillow to popping bubble wrap, written daily for years.

Upload a child's drawing of a person and it finds the limbs, rigs them and makes the figure dance. Research that turned out purely delightful.

A cheerful cartoon avatar generator in one fixed illustration style, endlessly recombined and free to use anywhere.

Filter by genre, format and city to find records sold directly by the people who made them, with full streams before you buy anything.

Drag four blobs up and down and they sing genuine four-part harmony, trained on real opera singers, always in key.

The cat plays whatever key you press, on bongos, a keyboard or a full drum kit. Peak internet, and still maintained.

Brown bears standing in an Alaskan waterfall catching salmon in mid-air, live from Katmai, and the reason Fat Bear Week exists.

Every recipe costed per serving and per batch, with step photos throughout. Built for people cooking against an actual number.

Cut-out cats rain down and bounce off the bottom of the screen, and you can grab one and fling it at the others.

Fourteen small experiments — spectrogram, harmonics, arpeggios — that explain how music works by letting you break it.

Nest and feeder cams run by the Cornell Lab, with ornithologists in the chat explaining what the bird is doing and why it matters.

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

Pixel canvas designed for thumbs first, fed by a huge stream of daily themed drawings from a mostly Japanese community.

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

A search engine that funds tree-planting projects with its profits and publishes regular reports showing where the money went.

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.

Shows you an emoji and starts a timer while you run round the room pointing your phone camera at the real object.

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

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

Home of the GROW games, where you choose an order for a handful of objects and then watch a tiny world assemble or fail.

Accurately drawn birds swearing at each other about territory, mating and the general indignity of being a bird.

The two-person studio behind the entire Papa's restaurant series, with the back catalogue and the odd non-cooking game too.

Three dishes a day and you name the country that cooks them, which teaches more about world cuisine than it means to.

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

Properly licensed free downloads curated by radio stations, which is how you stop losing your videos to copyright claims.

Answer vocabulary questions and the ad revenue goes to the UN World Food Programme. Running since 2007 and still counting grains.

Good news with a nudge attached — every story arrives alongside something you could actually do about it.

Positive news published daily since 1997, back when the idea sounded like a joke rather than a business model.

Old photographs pinned to the exact street corner where they were taken, fading into the modern view behind.

The lolcat archive that taught the internet its first grammar, still posting captioned animals two decades later.

Every plant and animal anybody has photographed and posted, mapped, with a community that will identify your mystery beetle within hours.

Dress beatboxers in different outfits and each one adds a loop, building a full a cappella track by drag and drop.

Step-by-step build guides for anything from a bookshelf to a plasma cutter, written by the people who actually made the thing.

A marketplace of language tutors giving one-to-one video lessons at wildly varying prices and standards.

Multiplayer jigsaws where several people drag pieces around the same table at once, mostly getting in each other's way.

Shows one fresh post at a time from a hand-picked list of personal blogs. Press next and you are reading a stranger's corner of the internet.

Seattle public radio with the famous in-studio live sessions, a human DJ on air at all hours and a playlist page that credits everything.

Start with one enormous dot; every pass of the cursor splits it into four, until the pixels resolve into a picture.

Free audio courses that teach by making you work out the grammar yourself, made by one person with no adverts.

Public domain books read aloud by volunteers, free to download, uneven in quality and endless in supply.

Korean home cooking taught with video for everything, including how to make the kimchi rather than quietly buy a jar of it.

One button, one progress bar, and the firm assurance that everything is now OK, which beats the alternative.

A platform where creators publish their own dress-up games, which is largely how the genre survived the death of Flash.

Vocabulary drills built around clips of native speakers saying the phrase in an actual street.

Builds a photo mosaic out of hundreds of your other photos, free to make and zoomable right down to each tile.

Art too bad to be ignored, collected since 1993 and catalogued with entirely straight-faced curatorial commentary.

A morning briefing of good stories, written for people who want a news habit that does not ruin breakfast.