Pointer Pointer

Pointer Pointer waits for your mouse to stop, then produces an oddly specific photo whose pointing finger lands on that precise spot.

What is Pointer Pointer?

Pointer Pointer has one joke and executes it with absolute confidence. Place the cursor anywhere in the browser window and, after a brief search, a photograph appears with somebody pointing directly at that location. Move again and the site finds another. Part of the charm is the unnecessary depth behind the trick: a large collection of party, travel, and group photos has been mapped closely enough to make the illusion work across the screen.

Why we picked it

It is the ideal single-purpose website—immediate, technically clever, and funnier the more seriously it commits to something completely useless.

How to get the most from it

Try the corners, awkward edge positions, and a few rapid moves. This one is best shared without explaining what will happen.

Good to know

Desktop is the intended experience because the site follows a mouse pointer. Touch devices cannot reproduce the joke as precisely.