Web Curios
Reviews
- Music Atlas 74,000 artists laid out as a galaxy, joined by real playlists
- Book Corners An open map of 37,000 public bookcases, charter sign or not
- Ceramic Beats A drum machine whose nine tracks are the Met's nine ceramic materials, each struck by its own sound
- Mapping India's Clouds A daily pixel map of where it is cloudy
- Ollee Watch A smartwatch module that hides inside a Casio F-91W
- The Annual Report Gallery Three thousand corporate covers from when a balance sheet got an illustrator
- ChatTJB A $6,000 SoMa billboard sells a chat interface powered by AI — the asterisk stands for Average Individual
- Stowaway Live Click any plane overhead and ride in its window seat, under a sky that is rendered rather than mapped
- Eigendrum Real finite-element drum physics for anything you draw, including the 1992 proof that closed Kac's question
Finds
- Book of Shapes Generative SVG patterns you can tweak and download
- Drive Thru Index The same fast-food item, priced at every restaurant on a map
- Every Dog in New York 96,459 licensed dogs, mapped across 197 neighborhoods
- The KV Archive Twenty years of an MP3 blog, now a shuffle-able player
- Music Atlas 74,000 artists laid out as a galaxy, joined by real playlists
- Roiler Boom Pick two songs and slide between their melody, vocals and beats
- Pardall Games PS1 and N64 game models you can spin in the browser
- Voynich Viewer The Voynich Manuscript as a turnable 3D book
- A Weird Little Room A pixel-art station with a porthole, a live gramophone, and a fish that remembers you
- Book Corners A crowd-mapped directory of 37,000-plus little free libraries worldwide
- Ceramic Beats A step sequencer whose tiles are real ceramics from the Met's open collection
- Posty A digital postcard with a manufactured 7-to-14-day wait before it lands
- A New Yorker State of Mind Reading every issue of The New Yorker, in order, since 1925 — currently somewhere in 1936
- The Endless Museum Every Wikipedia article is a room; every link is a door
- 56k.rip The full 1996 dial-up experience: the handshake, the wait, someone picking up the phone
- Any Human Ever Draw one life at random from the hundred billion people who have ever lived
- Championship Gurning Pull the ugliest face you can into your webcam and the site hands out medals
- earshoot A music-discovery map that grows outward from whatever you search, with a toad living on it
- Kids Trends A hundred million children's drawings, searchable, charting twenty years of what kids cared about
- Microduck A 25 cm open-source biped robot duck you retrain yourself, from the makers of Reachy
- Mystery Chart Every day, five real charts arrive with the title redacted, and you work out what you're looking at
- Unusual Suspects Neal.fun's police-sketch game, where every suspect is a cartoon and every witness is useless
- @towns.satyrs.eu One British or Irish town, on the hour, in its historic county
- Mapping India's Clouds A daily pixel map of where it is cloudy
- Ollee Watch A smartwatch module that hides inside a Casio F-91W
- The Vintage AI Archive Artificial intelligence from before it got awkward
- The Annual Report Gallery 3,000 corporate covers from when companies hired illustrators
- The Bre Pettis Collection of Computer Art Seventy years of art made by machines, catalogued
- The Cryptic Cryptid Crossword A 15x15 grid where every answer is a monster
- Folding Globes Print a planet, cut it out, fold it into a sphere
- The Helmet Time Machine Every NFL helmet, every season, back to 1960
- Isometric San Francisco The city redrawn tile by tile as one pixel painting
- Tomarigi A thousand live cameras, arranged on a map of Japan
- Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 This year’s winners, category by category
- Photocopy Run your own face through the copier until it falls apart
- REGOLITH: The Silence at Anaxagoras A lunar rover sim with ground that gives under the wheels
- ShadeMap Drag the time slider and watch the shadows move
- The Archive of Archives A meta-archive cataloguing other people's obsessively kept archives
- Falling Letters Type a sentence and watch it crumble, letter by letter
- I Didn't Set A Cookie No cookies, no permissions — and it still knows your device and location
- Other Eclipses What a solar eclipse looks like from other planets and moons
- Printing Films It started with a box of Linotype promo reels handed over in 2011
- Stone Tools Abandonware preservation for the spreadsheets nobody thought worth saving
- Widthipedia Wikipedia, except the article is chosen by your window's width
- A Box of Letters A family archive that started in a box marked Keep Frozen
- BingeBuster A walkable 3D video store stocked from your actual streaming subscriptions
- ChatTJB Artisanal intelligence, handcrafted by one human
- HideUrBits Watch a single letter get hidden inside eight pixels
- I Love The 90s A shared 90s TV lineup, a radio you can't rewind, and one 74-minute blank CD-R
- Send Henry Poems Type a poem here and it prints on a stranger's thermal printer at home
- Shieldfont A web font that shows readers your words and scrapers someone else's
- Star Patrol A space game you play by fingerspelling
- Stowaway Live Pick any plane or satellite overhead and take its window seat
- Supercut.org Andy Baio's archive of 592 obsessive video montages, back and searchable
- Eigendrum Draw a shape, hear the sound it would actually make
- NYC Sim A browser-based, real-time digital twin of all of New York City, built by one developer, pulling live city data into an explorable model.
- Station Melodies of Greater Tokyo A listening archive of the jingles that greet trains at the platform
- Knockoff A browser extension that scrubs knockoff junk out of Amazon results
- Milky Way Photographer of the Year 2026 This year's best Milky Way photographs, from around the world
- The Annals — A Living Kingdom A procedurally generated medieval realm that writes its own chronicle
- World Cup 2026 Data Portraits Every 2026 World Cup match rendered as a living data portrait
- Half-Life 2 in Your Browser The full 2004 classic, playable free with no download
- Plant Atlas 114 houseplants, each rendered as a tiny clay sculpture
- The Roland 50 Studio An interactive tribute to 50 years of Roland's instruments
- Sunrisetracker See exactly where on Earth the sun is rising right now
- Uncovered Tinder, but for the first pages of novels
- The Virtual Criterion Closet A browsable 3D replica of the famous Criterion Collection closet
- The Disposable Memory Project 784 images from 500+ found disposable cameras worldwide
- Earth Index Search 3.2 billion satellite tiles for environmental patterns
- Feed the Cat Remotely trigger food dispensers for shelter cats via webcam
- Firewood Splitting Simulator First-person 3D log-chopping with satisfying physics splits
- Heikki's Garden of Flowers Searchable archive of historical letterpress type ornaments
- Gerrymandle Draw district lines daily and learn gerrymandering firsthand
- Glider Endless soaring flight simulator with daily shared routes
- Icare Browser 3D adventure through artist-inspired dreamworlds
- Infinite London Procedurally generated 3D London that extends forever in-browser
- The Map of Metal Interactive genealogy of metal subgenres with curated playlists
- Meditype Type Aurelius and Thoreau over ambient soundscapes, no clock
- Metro Music LA Real LA train arrivals translated into live generative ambient music
- Museum of the Human Web 90 artifacts memorializing the era humans built the web alone
- Play It By Trust Super Mario World 1-1 rendered invisible — play from memory
- Rarefilmm Free streaming archive of obscure and forgotten cinema
- S.E.C.R.E.T. Searchable archive of confidential envelope interior patterns
- Splash Canvas Paint with octopus tentacles using GPU fluid simulation
- SWF Rodeo 6,817 manually vetted Flash files playable via Ruffle emulator
- Tiny World Builder Browser-based isometric miniature village builder, no objectives
- Virtual OS Museum 1,700+ pre-installed operating systems in one runnable VM
- Weather Rothkos Pairs your local weather with a matching Rothko painting
- Your Internet Radio Dial Global internet radio stations arranged as a tunable FM dial
- Batcloud A Mexican art installation where AI-trained bats answer your questions
- Drops Falling balls create looping beatscapes by hitting obstacles you place
- Klattsch A speech synthesizer that operates on phonemes, not spelling
- Personal Sites A portal indexing thousands of homespun personal websites
- Trambient Manchester's tram network sonified — 1.7 million possible versions per journey
- The Apocalypse Early Warning System Tracks private jets to estimate catastrophic-event likelihood
- Audio Spaces A collaborative global map of location-tagged sound recordings
- Flipbook Type a query, get a machine-generated illustrated encyclopedia entry
- Play Your Tubes Right London Underground journey-time speed challenge
- Single Ride Travel the longest possible route on a single NYC subway swipe
- Takeaway Reduce an 8-letter word to 3 letters, one letter at a time
- Wax Letter Send a real physical letter with a custom wax seal
- Blind Data Statistical analysis of 877 Guardian Blind Date columns
- Land Lines Draw a line; Google Maps finds the matching ridge, river, or coastline
- Eurovision Through the Decades How Eurovision lyrics evolved over 60 years of contests, scrolly-told
- Last Night's Sunset Browser renders yesterday's actual sunset where you stood, as a gradient
- NTK — Need To Know Archive Complete 1997-2007 archive of the British weekly tech-and-snark links newsletter
- RedditTok (reddvu) Any subreddit as a vertical-scroll TikTok feed
- The Sample Text Project AI-generated random word + image combos, printed on actual merch
- Vaskange Zoom-deeper-forever exploration through hand-illustrated nested worlds
- Damnlines Live webcams of the queues outside viral New York food spots
- Penumbra Magic Postcards Paper postcards that play a video when you scan the QR
- Roll: Disposable Camera Camera app that hides your photos for three days to a year