A collection of noteworthy things. Check them out at your own risk – I do not maintain these websites.

Entertainment

• “PERKELE!”: Real footage of a man jumpscaring a bear and defending a bag of trash with a broom.
• Cowsay: “Program that generates ASCII pictures of a cow with a message” – Wikipedia
• Hollywood Hacker Screen: Fake a hacker screen in Linux terminal.
• Joke chess problems: Chess problems with humor.
• People playing chess on roller coasters (NOT FULLY HTTPS): Inspired by a comic from xkcd.
• Watching Grass Grow: Livestream from a random dude’s backyard for you to watch the grass grow.
• Clocky: Runaway alarm clock on wheels! Forces you to wake up AND get up.
• ChadGPT: AI enables the evolution of new human subspecies.
• The Can Opener Bridge (NOT HTTPS): The biggest can opener I have ever seen.
• The Onion: “The Onion is America’s Finest News Source.”
• Chess boxing: Chess + boxing!
• Ig Nobel Prize: “A satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research.”
• Darwin Awards: “An award for enriching the human gene pool by idiotic self-destruction.”
• Birds Aren’t Real: The big flock is watching you.
• Musical road: The rumbling that the road causes generates a musical tune.
• Shitty Flute: It’s the intention that matters.
• Rube Goldberg machine: Machines that perform simple tasks with intentionally complicated and impractical ways.
• Wikipedia: Unusual articles: Finally found the list I was looking for!
• The thieving magpie?: Maybe I should change the name of this page.
• Google: A search engine. Also offers email and document editing services if you create an account.

Games

• Agar.io: MMO where you control a cell and try to gain mass by eating agar and other cells.
• Slither.io (NOT HTTPS): Similar to Agar.io but you control a snake.
• Robot Reboot (NOT HTTPS): Bring the robots home to reboot using as few moves as possible.
• Cut the Rope: Probably my favorite game growing up. A puzzle game where the goal is to bring a candy to a create called Om Nom.
• Pudding Monsters: Puzzle game. “Swipe to stick the Pudding Monsters together and save their friends!”
• Lemmings: “Guide a group of anthropomorphised lemmings through a number of obstacles to a designated exit.” I really like the pixel art.
• Robbery Bob: Stealth game where you guide a burglar.

Crypto

• Random.org: Claims to generate true random numbers.
• zk-Collective: “Bring the community together to advance ZKP technologies to build public good.”
• ANU QRNG: Quantum random numbers from a lab in The Australian National University. “The random numbers are generated in real-time in our lab by measuring the quantum fluctuations of the vacuum.”
• Web3 is going great: Lists the scandals related to web3. Definitely useful to spread awareness about scam projects, but, to be a fair comparison, should have included scandals in web2, too.
• rekt news: Another tracker for web3 hacks.
• EigenPhi: Tracks MEV-related activities on Ethereum and BSC.
• Mempool.space: Visualization tool for Bitcoin’s mempool (set of unconfirmed transactions).
• Bitaps: Detailed and live info about the Bitcoin blockchain.
• Bitcoin Strings: Data stored in the Bitcoin blockchain, starting from the genesis block. The first blocks contain interesting stuff.
• Vitalik Buterin’s blog: Always a good read.
• Kimbatt’s Bitcoin address generator: Supports different address types and generates QR codes for usability. Can also generate addresses in bulk. I don’t know if it works correctly.
• Bitcoin Obituaries: If Bitcoin is about to die again, let them know.

Miscellaneous

• Submarine Cable Map: Detailed info about submarine cables around the world.
• How do the colorblind see the world?: Pictures that simulate different types of colorblindness.
• Music Ngram Viewer: Input a sequence of musical notes and see which pieces contain that sequence.
• IMSLP: Database of public domain music scores and recordings.
• EBIDAT - Die Burgendatenbank: A database of castles in Europe.
• The True Size: Shows the distortion caused by the Mercator projection.
• The Chess Variant Pages: Collection of chess variants. It is quite extensive.
• The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: Detailed information about over a quarter million number sequences.
• Nesin Mathematics Village: It’s like the Smurfs but with math. Ali Nesin is the Papa Smurf. High school and university-level math classes in a picturesque location near the town of Şirince, one of the two towns that were supposed to survive the 2012 apocalypse. Highly recommended.
• Mindat.org: “The world’s largest open database of minerals, rocks, meteorites and the localities they come from.”
• Linux from Scratch: “A project that provides you with step-by-step instructions for building your own custom Linux system, entirely from source code.”
• Ethical Ads: Advertising without invasive tracking. “We can still show relevant and valuable ads knowing only the content you’re reading, not who you are as a person.” Nothing new, nothing fancy. Pretty much like newspaper advertising.
• Spaghetti stringing (NOT HTTPS): A tennis racket stringing technique that generates “so much spin on the ball that it was eventually banned by the International Tennis Federation in 1978.”
• Six Degrees of Wikipedia: Finds the least number of clicks it takes to navigate between two Wikipedia pages.
• Stellarium: “A free open source planetarium for your computer.”
• The Wow! signal: Radio signal that “remains the strongest candidate for an extraterrestrial radio transmission ever detected.”
• Google Books Ngram Viewer: “When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books over the selected years.”
• The Fuck: “Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.” Just type fuck.
• Animations for geocentrism and heliocentrism: “The difference between an easy model and a complicated one.”
• The Wayback Machine: “Explore more than 808 billion web pages saved over time.” Lets you check past versions of websites.
• The Million Dollar Homepage: Launched in 2005. “The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks.”
• Where is the International Space Station?: Shows the live location of the International Space Station.
• Game of Life: “A cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input.”
• Theremin: “An electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer.” Invented in 1919! “I’m thinking about selling my theremin. I haven’t touched it in years.”
• Cueva de las Manos: It is crazy that you can essentially see the hands of someone who lived thousands of years ago.
• Pale Blue Dot: “As the spacecraft was departing our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system, it turned it around for one last look at its home planet.” Make sure to read the excerpt at the end.
• University of Queensland pitch drop experiment: Started in 1927, and still going!
• Domino Train: “Sets up the dominos automatically by running across the floor.”
• Greater Idaho movement: “An activist effort for counties in eastern Oregon to secede from the state and join Idaho.”
• Clever Hans: This horse was literally smarter than the audience.
• no hello: Simple tip to save time and attention while texting.
• Volume booster extension: Haven’t tried this extension myself but have witnessed an extension like this being useful.
• donut.c: Very compact code that prints a rotating donut.
• World’s Largest Photo of NYC: A panorama.
• Scale of the Universe: “A visual tool for getting a sense of the scale of various objects in the universe.”