Saturday, October 24

Odd of the Day

One hand-picked odd website, every day. Come back tomorrow for the next: your streak is counted in your browser.

The last 30 days

1. Oct 23The Scale of the UniverseZoom from quarks to the edge of the observable universe.
2. Oct 22SomaFMCommercial-free, listener-supported internet radio with real character.
3. Oct 21Google Ngram ViewerChart how often any word appears in millions of books.
4. Oct 20Bruno Simon's PortfolioA portfolio you explore by driving a toy car around a 3D world.
5. Oct 19Your World of TextAn infinite shared text canvas anyone can write on.
6. Oct 1898.jsWindows 98 in a browser tab, with working apps.
7. Oct 17WibyA search engine for the classic web, with a surprise button.
8. Oct 16earthA gorgeous live globe of the world's winds, weather and ocean currents.
9. Oct 15A Dark RoomA text-based game that begins with a fire in a dark room.
10. Oct 14WebGL Fluid SimulationSwirl glowing fluid around with your cursor.
11. Oct 13three.js ExamplesHundreds of 3D demos showing what the browser can do.
12. Oct 12NTS RadioLive radio from DJs and musicians across a huge range of genres.
13. Oct 11TEXTFILES.COMJason Scott's archive of text files from the BBS era.
14. Oct 10Name that ColorFind the oddly specific name for any colour.
15. Oct 9Wikipedia: Unusual ArticlesWikipedia's own list of its strangest entries.
16. Oct 8The PuddingVisual essays that explain culture with data.
17. Oct 7Nyan CatThe rainbow-trailing pop-tart cat, looping forever.
18. Oct 6Stellarium WebA free planetarium that runs in your browser.
19. Oct 5Solar Dynamics ObservatoryNear-live images of the Sun in different wavelengths.
20. Oct 4GlobleA daily globe game: guess the mystery country by distance.
21. Oct 3WindyAnimated wind, wave and storm maps with a huge layer menu.
22. Oct 2ELIZA (elizabot.js)A faithful JavaScript recreation of the 1966 chatbot ELIZA.
23. Oct 1Windows 93A deranged fake operating system with surreal apps.
24. Sep 30Moral MachineJudge self-driving car dilemmas and compare with the world.
25. Sep 29This Word Does Not ExistAI invents a word, a definition and an example sentence.
26. Sep 28Size of LifeScroll from an amoeba to a blue whale and feel tiny.
27. Sep 27RANDOM.ORGTrue random numbers from atmospheric noise.
28. Sep 26Antipodes MapDig a hole and see where you would come out the other side.
29. Sep 25I'm Not a RobotA puzzle game where the CAPTCHAs fight back.

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