Infinite Craft
An endless crafting game that starts with Water, Fire, Wind and Earth.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive
110 sites · every link checked daily
Brainy websites
Learn something while pretending you aren’t. 110 hand-picked sites for a brainy mood, every link checked daily. Use the button to pick one at random from this mood, or filter by how much time you have.
The sites
All the sites
The sites (110)
The Deep Sea
Scroll down through the ocean and meet what lives at every depth.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
The Library of Babel
A website that contains every possible page of text.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
This Word Does Not Exist
AI invents a word, a definition and an example sentence.
- 30 seconds
- Works on phones
- Mature themes
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
This Person Does Not Exist
Every refresh shows a human face that never existed.
- 30 seconds
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
NUKEMAP
Drop a nuclear weapon on a map and see the effects.
- 5 minutes
- Mature themes
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Which Face Is Real?
Pick the real person from a pair of faces, one of them AI-made.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Priyom.org
A hub for tracking mysterious number stations on shortwave radio.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Universal Paperclips
An idle game about making paperclips that goes somewhere dark.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Weird Universe
A tour of odd news, inventions and strange history.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Days Since Incident
Live counters for days since the last earthquake, eruption and more.
- 30 seconds
- Works on phones
- Alive
The Scale of the Universe
Zoom from quarks to the edge of the observable universe.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Adventures With Anxiety!
An interactive story about living with anxiety.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
What If?
Absurd hypothetical questions, answered with real science.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
oldweb.today
Browse archived pages inside emulated period browsers.
- Rabbit hole
- Desktop
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
The Million Dollar Homepage
A million pixels sold at a dollar each, preserved in all its glory.
- 5 minutes
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
This Rental Does Not Exist
AI writes and illustrates a holiday rental that isn't real.
- 30 seconds
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
earth
A gorgeous live globe of the world's winds, weather and ocean currents.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Antipodes Map
Dig a hole and see where you would come out the other side.
- 30 seconds
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Earth Reviews
A review site for Earth itself, to help improve the simulation.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
Gapminder Tools
Animated bubble charts that bust myths about the world.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
The Evolution of Trust
A playable explainer on why we trust each other, with game theory.
- Rabbit hole
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
The True Size Of ...
Drag countries around the map to see their real size.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Futility Closet
An idler's miscellany of odd facts, puzzles and curiosities.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Know Your Meme
The encyclopedia of internet memes and their origins.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Mature themes
- Unmoderated user content
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Light Pollution Map
See how bright the night sky is where you live.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
LightningMaps.org
Watch lightning strike around the world in near real time.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Wikipedia: Unusual Articles
Wikipedia's own list of its strangest entries.
- Rabbit hole
- Mature themes
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
A Neural Network Playground
Train a neural network in your browser and watch it learn.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Dark Patterns
A guided tour of the tricks websites use to manipulate you.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
Experiments with Google
A gallery of creative coding, AI and music experiments.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Google Ngram Viewer
Chart how often any word appears in millions of books.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Internet Artifacts
A museum of about 60 internet milestones, from 1977 to 2007.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
OneZoom Tree of Life
Zoom through the entire tree of life, from bacteria to blue whales.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Our World in Data
Charts on how the world is changing, with the data behind them.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Spend Bill Gates' Money
Blow $100 billion on everything from Big Macs to an NBA team.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
WebGL Fluid Simulation
Swirl glowing fluid around with your cursor.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Explorable Explanations
A hub for interactive essays that you learn by playing.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Flashpoint Archive
A huge preservation project saving Flash games and animations.
- Rabbit hole
- Desktop
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Flexbox Froggy
Help frogs reach their lily pads using CSS.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
How To Remember Anything Forever-ish
A comic-style interactive guide to spaced repetition.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
NASA's Eyes
Fly through the solar system, Earth and spacecraft in 3D.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Parable of the Polygons
A playable post on how small biases build segregated societies.
- 5 minutes
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
PhET Interactive Simulations
Free physics, chemistry and math simulations you can poke at.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Ptable
The periodic table, made interactive and genuinely nice to use.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Quick, Draw!
Doodle quickly while an AI tries to guess what you're drawing.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Radiooooo
A musical time machine: pick a country and a decade, then listen.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Telehack
A simulation of the old ARPANET you play from a terminal.
- Rabbit hole
- Desktop
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
The Wisdom and/or Madness of Crowds
A playable guide to how ideas and behaviour spread through crowds.
- Rabbit hole
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Where the ISS at?
See exactly where the International Space Station is right now.
- 30 seconds
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Bartosz Ciechanowski's Interactive Explainers
Long, gorgeous interactive essays on how things work.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Tens of thousands of beautifully scanned old maps.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Every Noise at Once
A scatter map of thousands of music genres, with samples.
- Rabbit hole
- Desktop
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Neal.fun
Neal Agarwal's playground of games, visualizations and weird stuff.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive
Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena
Michael Bach's classic collection of optical illusions.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
RANDOM.ORG
True random numbers from atmospheric noise.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Invented words for feelings you didn't know had names.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Wayback Machine
Type a URL and travel to how it looked years ago.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Windy
Animated wind, wave and storm maps with a huge layer menu.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Worldometer
Real-time counters for population, births, deaths and more.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Asteroid Launcher
Design an asteroid and fire it at any spot on Earth.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
Damn Interesting
Long-form true stories that are obscure, odd and gripping.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Explained Visually
Interactive explanations of ideas like Markov chains and eigenvectors.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Information is Beautiful
David McCandless's gorgeous data visualisations.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Moral Machine
Judge self-driving car dilemmas and compare with the world.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Stellarium Web
A free planetarium that runs in your browser.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
The Pudding
Visual essays that explain culture with data.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
The Wiki Game
Race from one Wikipedia page to another using only links.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
To Build a Better Ballot
An interactive guide to voting systems and why they matter.
- 5 minutes
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Ableton Learning Music
Learn how music works by making it in your browser.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Chrome Music Lab
Playful experiments that make music easy to explore.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Histography
An interactive timeline of all of history, powered by Wikipedia.
- Rabbit hole
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Internet Live Stats
Real-time counts of emails sent, tweets posted and sites online.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
OpenRailwayMap
A world map of train tracks, signals and rail infrastructure.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Regex Crossword
Crosswords where the clues are regular expressions.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
The Public Domain Review
Strange and wonderful out-of-copyright art, books and ephemera.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Ableton Learning Synths
A hands-on guide to synthesizers that actually sounds good.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Esolang Wiki
A catalogue of deliberately bizarre programming languages.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Google Arts & Culture
Museums, art and cultural treasures you can zoom into.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Roadside America
A guide to uniquely odd tourist attractions across America.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Sandwich Tribunal
A years-long, alphabetical blog judging the world's sandwiches.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Space Elevator
Ride a virtual elevator through the atmosphere and into space.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
The Scale of the Universe 2
The original Flash-era zoom through everything, rebuilt for HTML5.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
USGS Latest Earthquakes
A live map of every notable earthquake on Earth.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
VIM Adventures
Learn Vim keystrokes by playing an adventure game.
- Rabbit hole
- Desktop
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Who Was Alive?
Type a year and see which historical figures overlapped.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive
xkcd
Randall Munroe's webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language.
- 5 minutes
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Astronomy Picture of the Day
A new space photo every day, with an expert's explanation.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
CSS Zen Garden
One HTML page, hundreds of wildly different designs.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Grid Garden
Water your carrots with CSS grid code.
- 5 minutes
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
TEXTFILES.COM
Jason Scott's archive of text files from the BBS era.
- Rabbit hole
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
Teachable Machine
Train an AI to recognise your face, sounds or poses.
- 5 minutes
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Type some numbers and find the sequence they belong to.
- Rabbit hole
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
WorldWide Telescope
Explore the universe through a virtual telescope in your browser.
- Rabbit hole
- Works on phones
- Alive · checked 16 days ago
