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Chaos Ink: disturb a tank of virtual liquid metal
Chaos Ink is a web toy where you swish around your pointer on the surface of a virtual tub of hot liquid metal, watching the slow shiny ripples spread out and back again. Its by creative technologist...
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Bongo Cat: perfectly simple online noise maker
Bongo Cat is a simply-drawn yet adorable cat that plays the bongos, the keyboard, a marimba, or various other noisy instruments. Just bash the keys and enjoy!
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Isometric city-making toy
Victor Ribeiro made a simple but fun web-based isometric city-making toy. It's not a game—you just put down whatever you want—but you can save, load and customize various aspects of the UI, most...
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Browser extension to show classic Google search results
Google search now typically shows advertising for other Google things atop its search results—more than 40 percent of the home page, according to a recent investigation published by The Markup. So they...
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Email a dumpster fire
You may now send email to a dumpster fire, literally, then watch it burn. 1. Send an email to dumpsterfire@hey.com with whatever you want to torch. Use plain text or an image attachment. PG-13 rules...
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RIP Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash, the animation and programming platform that long graced the world-wide web, is officially dead. Adobe has ended support for it, will soon issue an auto-update that blocks Flash files from...
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Share bookmark lists with a single URL
Multy.me is a URL shortener, created by Michael Breyton, but you share lists of URLs instead of just one. The list formatting can be either plain links or thumbnailed cards for each URL. Breyton also...
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Facebook to add podcasts, Clubhouse-style audio features
Clubhouse, the fast-growing audio-only social network, has two problems: first, its platform is really just a feature. Second, Facebook is adding the feature. Audio-only networks have become...
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Checkboxland: render everything as HTML checkboxes
At Brian Braun's Checkboxland, everything is made of HTML checkbox elements. You can make your own images and animations out of checkboxes! There's even an API. Checkboxland is a JavaScript library for...
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Horror GIFs
The Horror GIF Necronomicon may not contain every spooky GIF the 1990s had to offer, but it's certainly got the best of them.
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"X people are looking at this product" counters widely faked
You know those little notes on shopping sites saying things like "14 people are looking at this product"? We all understand that it's a cheesy way to get us to buy, but we may assume it's basically...
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Marginalia: a directory of wonderful sites
Marginalia is a search engine specializing in "non-commercial" content; it feels perhaps like the web as it could have been if "web 2.0" had never happened. …attempts to show you sites you perhaps...
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You'll never believe what this subreddit saves you
Clickbait has evolved over the years as efficient targeted methods have merged seamlessly with marketing savvy to extract clicks from netizens. r/savedyouaclick arises from the digital sea of...
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Can Tumblr "be a better Twitter"?
Techcrunch interviews Matt Mullenwag of Automattic/WordPress, which bought Tumblr for a song after a succession of corporate owners let the billion-dollar blog platform decay into a bleak ritual of...
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Collection of 88×31 pixel web buttons from the early web
A.N. Lucas: "Here is a collection of more than 700 88×31 web buttons from the 1990's and 2000's, including the famous "Netscape NOW" and "Internet Explorer" buttons as well as various other buttons for...
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Subreddits planning to go dark over Reddit's initial public enshittification
Reddark is tracking which subreddits plan to go dark in protest of the site shutting off third-party clients (and doing various other things to make itself look fatter to potential investors in its...
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Amazon's Kindle web browser finally good
The Kindle web browser, long an intriguing but rudimentary "experiment" on the e-ink devices, is now "actually usable," writes Brad Linder at Lilliputing. When I visited the Liliputing home page with...
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Salad Fingers and "Weird YouTube"
David Firth's wonderfully horrible Salad Fingers (previously at Boing Boing) today stars not in another bleakly fascinating adventure but in an academic paper, Salad Fingers: Pre-YouTube digital...
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"This site will self-destruct" finally self-destructs after no-one signs...
In 2020, David linked to a site that promised to automatically self-destruct if ever it went 24 hours without someone adding a message to its guestbook. The creator, FemmeAndroid, posted last week that...
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Simple Wiki is an encyclopdia for the cluttered mind
Simple Wiki is an encyclopedia for the cluttered mind. If you're having one of those days when your brain is overloaded and you need everything in your day to be simplified, Simple Wiki will give you...
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