Categories
Pick the kind of time-wasting you had in mind.
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Pointer Pointer
Hold your cursor still and somebody, somewhere, points directly at it.Best with a mouse
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Zoomquilt
An infinitely zooming collaborative painting that never quite arrives anywhere.Classic · 2004
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Falling Falling Color falls forever while a low drone turns the page into furniture.
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Find the Invisible Cow
Find an invisible cow by following increasingly urgent audio clues.
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Procatinator
A cat GIF and a song, paired with no obvious concern for your schedule.
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The Useless Web One button that sends you somewhere wonderfully unnecessary.
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Long Doge Challenge
Keep scrolling. Doge keeps getting longer.
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Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue
The page is red. Or blue. Refreshing is the entire dramatic arc.
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Eel Slap Move the cursor and slap a man in the face with an eel.Best with a mouse
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Cat Bounce
Cats fall from the sky. Grab them. Throw them. Make it rain.
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Tiltanic
Tilt the sea with your mouse and try to keep a tiny boat out of trouble.Mouse controls tested; phone tilt unverified
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Line Rider Draw a line and let a tiny sledder discover the consequences.
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The Password Game
Try to satisfy a password form that keeps inventing new rules.
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Quick, Draw! Draw badly while a neural network tries to understand what you meant.
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Little Alchemy 2
Combine simple elements and keep discovering what they can become.
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Silk Draw glowing symmetrical art with a few movements of the mouse.Best with a mouse
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Sandspiel
Drop sand, water, fire and plants into a tiny cellular world and see what happens.
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Sandspiel Studio Create and share your own Sandspiel elements, then see how they behave together.
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Thisissand
Pour colored digital sand into surprisingly beautiful layered pictures.
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Patatap
Turn your keyboard into a burst of sound, color and animation. Flashing / intense motion.Keyboard or touch controls
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WindowSwap Look out of somebody else's window somewhere else in the world.
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Radio Garden
Spin the globe and tune into live radio. UK listeners are limited to UK stations.Regional restrictions apply; station availability varies.
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MapCrunch Drop into a random Street View and see where you landed.
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Earth Nullschool Explore an animated globe of wind, weather and ocean data.
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Windy
Explore animated weather layers across the planet.
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Koalas to the Max
Split circles into smaller circles until a hidden picture emerges.
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myNoise
Deeply adjustable soundscapes for focus, calm or just changing the room.
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A Soft Murmur
Mix rain, waves, thunder and other ambient sounds into your own background.
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Rainy Mood
A long-running page that does one thing: make it sound like rain.
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Drift FM Pick a mood, from quiet ambient to funk or cinematic intensity, and let the radio run.
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Atlas Obscura
A map and archive of strange, overlooked and wonderful places.
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TV Tropes
An aggressively cross-linked encyclopedia of storytelling patterns.
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Damn Interesting
Long-form stories about historical details you probably never encountered elsewhere.
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The Pudding Visual essays where interaction does part of the explaining.
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Wayback Machine Travel backwards through saved versions of the web.