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Every link is opened, explored, and written up by a curious human before it joins the collection.

Learn Something

Nicky Case

Playable explanations about trust, systems, anxiety, networks, and the way people affect one another.

25 min SoundNo signup
Weird & Wonderful

The Library of Babel

Search an imaginary library that contains every possible page of a fixed length—including this sentence somewhere.

15 minNo signup
Experiments & Simulations

Neal.fun

A cabinet of interactive ideas that makes learning feel suspiciously like play.

20 minNo signup
Music & Sound

Radio Garden

Spin the globe and tune into live radio stations almost anywhere on Earth.

25 min SoundNo signup
Data, Maps & Visualizations

The Pudding

Visual essays that use code, data, and interaction to explain culture unusually well.

20 min SoundNo signup
Interactive Art

Zoomquilt

An endlessly falling illustrated world nested inside itself.

8 minNo signup
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✹ Weird & Wonderful◉ Interactive Art◆ Tiny Games↗ Useful Little Tools◎ Learn Something✦ Science & Space⌖ Data, Maps & Visualizations♪ Music & Sound✎ Creativity & Making◌ Calm & Satisfying☺ Funny & Pointless⌬ Experiments & Simulations▤ Stories, Comics & Archives❉ Nature & The World▣ Nostalgia & The Old Web∞ Communities & Collaborative Projects
✹ Collection 01

Weird & Wonderful

Beautiful oddities, impossible ideas, and sites that resist a normal explanation.

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  1. 01FutureMeWrite an email to yourself and choose a date far enough away to make it meaningful.futureme.org
  2. 02The Library of BabelSearch an imaginary library that contains every possible page of a fixed length—including this sentence somewhere.libraryofbabel.info
◉ Collection 02

Interactive Art

Digital canvases that respond, unfold, shimmer, and become something under your hands.

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  1. 01SilkDraw luminous mirrored threads that bloom into surprisingly elegant abstract art.weavesilk.com
  2. 02ThisissandPour tiny grains of color into layered landscapes, patterns, and patient accidents.thisissand.com
  3. 03ZoomquiltAn endlessly falling illustrated world nested inside itself.zoomquilt.org
◆ Collection 03

Tiny Games

Small browser games with almost no setup and a dangerously quick replay loop.

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  1. 01Little Alchemy 2Combine simple elements until your small world contains everything from rain to robots.littlealchemy2.com
↗ Collection 05

Useful Little Tools

Focused tools that solve one problem cleanly enough to earn a permanent bookmark.

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  1. 01ExcalidrawA fast whiteboard whose hand-drawn look makes unfinished ideas feel welcome.excalidraw.com
◎ Collection 06

Learn Something

Big ideas made explorable, visual, and much more interesting than a lecture.

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  1. 01Nicky CasePlayable explanations about trust, systems, anxiety, networks, and the way people affect one another.ncase.me
✦ Collection 07

Science & Space

Planets, stars, scales, and living systems made tangible on a screen.

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  1. 01100,000 StarsFly from the Sun into a 3D neighborhood of one hundred thousand nearby stars.stars.chromeexperiments.com
  2. 02Solar System ScopeExplore a richly rendered model of planets, orbits, stars, and the night sky.solarsystemscope.com
  3. 03Stellarium WebTurn the browser into a planetarium matched to the sky above your location.stellarium-web.org
  4. 04The Scale of the Universe 2Slide from the smallest known scales to the largest structures in the observable universe.htwins.net
⌖ Collection 08

Data, Maps & Visualizations

Maps and datasets that turn numbers into places, motion, and perspective.

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  1. 01Earth NullschoolA living globe of wind, weather, ocean currents, and atmospheric motion.earth.nullschool.net
  2. 02Internet Live StatsWatch rough estimates of internet activity climb faster than your brain can comfortably process.internetlivestats.com
  3. 03MapCrunchDrop into a random street-level view somewhere in the world and figure out where you landed.mapcrunch.com
  4. 04The PuddingVisual essays that use code, data, and interaction to explain culture unusually well.pudding.cool
  5. 05The True Size Of…Drag countries around the map and watch familiar size comparisons fall apart.thetruesize.com
♪ Collection 09

Music & Sound

Playable instruments, radio wormholes, sonic toys, and better background noise.

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  1. 01Blob OperaConduct four cheerful blobs whose vowel-shaped voices turn almost any gesture into opera.artsandculture.google.com
  2. 02Chrome Music LabFriendly musical experiments that explain rhythm, melody, sound waves, and harmony by letting you play.musiclab.chromeexperiments.com
  3. 03PatatapTurn every letter key into a synchronized burst of sound and animation.patatap.com
  4. 04Radio GardenSpin the globe and tune into live radio stations almost anywhere on Earth.radio.garden
  5. 05RadioooooPick a country, decade, and mood to time-travel through music.radiooooo.com
✎ Collection 10

Creativity & Making

Friendly tools for drawing, arranging, writing, and making an idea visible.

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  1. 01AutoDrawSketch badly on purpose and let machine-assisted suggestions turn it into a crisp icon.autodraw.com
◌ Collection 11

Calm & Satisfying

Soft places to breathe, focus, watch, and let a noisy brain settle down.

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  1. 01A Soft MurmurMix rain, thunder, waves, birds, wind, and café noise into your own quiet background.asoftmurmur.com
  2. 02myNoiseShape richly recorded soundscapes with sliders instead of accepting generic background noise.mynoise.net
  3. 03Pixel ThoughtsPlace one worried thought inside a star and watch the universe give it some scale.pixelthoughts.co
☺ Collection 12

Funny & Pointless

Expertly made nonsense with no productivity claims and no apology.

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  1. 01Bongo CatUse your keyboard to make an extremely committed cat play instruments and make noise.bongo.cat
  2. 02Hacker TyperMash the keyboard and instantly look like the movie version of a brilliant hacker.hackertyper.net
  3. 03Pointer PointerMove your cursor. Somewhere, a photograph contains a person pointing exactly at it.pointerpointer.com
⌬ Collection 13

Experiments & Simulations

Systems to poke, particles to disturb, and rules best understood through play.

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  1. 01Neal.funA cabinet of interactive ideas that makes learning feel suspiciously like play.neal.fun
  2. 02Quick, Draw!Doodle against the clock while a neural network tries to guess your subject.quickdraw.withgoogle.com
  3. 03SandspielPaint with sand, water, fire, plants, oil, and other tiny materials that react to one another.sandspiel.club
  4. 04WebGL Fluid SimulationPush luminous liquid color around the screen and watch digital turbulence behave beautifully.paveldogreat.github.io
▤ Collection 14

Stories, Comics & Archives

Narrative experiments, deep collections, and doorways into preserved culture.

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  1. 01OldMapsOnlineFind historical maps by moving across the modern world and sliding backward through time.oldmapsonline.org
❉ Collection 15

Nature & The World

Living systems, landscapes, field observations, and views beyond your window.

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  1. 01OneZoom Tree of LifeZoom through the evolutionary tree connecting millions of living species.onezoom.org
  2. 02WindowSwapBorrow someone else's window for a quiet view of another life and place.window-swap.com
▣ Collection 16

Nostalgia & The Old Web

Sounds, interfaces, archives, and artifacts from earlier layers of digital life.

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  1. 01Museum of Endangered SoundsAn audio shelf of dial-up handshakes, floppy drives, CRT televisions, and fading technology.savethesounds.info
∞ Collection 18

Communities & Collaborative Projects

Places where many small contributions become something none of us could build alone.

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  1. 01ZooniverseHelp real research by classifying galaxies, wildlife, weather records, manuscripts, and more.zooniverse.org