A directory of distractions.

THE INTERNET STILL HAS SOME WEIRD LEFT.

Good websites.
No good reason.

Fun, weird and wonderfully pointless websites, collected by someone with far too many bookmarks.

Distract me

Take a chance on another corner of the internet.

Choose a kind of random →

Follow your curiosity.

61 sites · hand-picked

Strange, bizarre and worth clicking.

Hold your cursor still and somebody, somewhere, points directly at it.

Color falls forever while a low drone turns the page into furniture.

Find an invisible cow by following increasingly urgent audio clues.

A cat GIF and a song, paired with no obvious concern for your schedule.

A microphone-reactive screen full of objects that bounce with the room.

A million pixels sold one small block at a time.

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No reason. Just because.

One button that sends you somewhere wonderfully unnecessary.

Keep scrolling. Doge keeps getting longer.

The page is red. Or blue. Refreshing is the entire dramatic arc.

Move the cursor and slap a man in the face with an eel.

Cats fall from the sky. Grab them. Throw them. Make it rain.

Mash keys and instantly look much more technically dangerous than you are.

A website with one seasonal question and almost always the same answer.

A deeper archive of strange single-purpose sites from across the web.

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Games

15 sites

Small games. One more go.

Tilt the sea with your mouse and try to keep a tiny boat out of trouble.

Draw a line and let a tiny sledder discover the consequences.

Try to satisfy a password form that keeps inventing new rules.

Draw badly while a neural network tries to understand what you meant.

Combine simple elements and keep discovering what they can become.

Combine concepts and keep discovering increasingly unlikely results.

Answer questions while a cartoon genie tries to identify who you are thinking of.

Draw the hero and watch your sketch become part of the adventure.

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Play, create and experiment.

Draw glowing symmetrical art with a few movements of the mouse.

Drop sand, water, fire and plants into a tiny cellular world and see what happens.

Create and share your own Sandspiel elements, then see how they behave together.

Pour colored digital sand into surprisingly beautiful layered pictures.

Simple browser experiments for playing with sound and music.

Make four blobs sing together with almost no musical ability required.

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Windows into different worlds.

Look out of somebody else's window somewhere else in the world.

Spin the globe and tune into live radio. UK listeners are limited to UK stations.

Drop into a random Street View and see where you landed.

Explore an animated globe of wind, weather and ocean data.

Explore animated weather layers across the planet.

Explore the physical cables quietly carrying the internet between continents.

Watch aircraft moving around the world in near real time.

Search historical maps and see familiar places before they became familiar.

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Small pleasures. Hard to stop.

Split circles into smaller circles until a hidden picture emerges.

Deeply adjustable soundscapes for focus, calm or just changing the room.

Mix rain, waves, thunder and other ambient sounds into your own background.

A long-running page that does one thing: make it sound like rain.

A tiny always-on ambient radio without a recommendation engine.

A deliberately slow 90-second break from everything else on the screen.

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Open one tab. Lose an evening.

A map and archive of strange, overlooked and wonderful places.

An aggressively cross-linked encyclopedia of storytelling patterns.

Long-form stories about historical details you probably never encountered elsewhere.

Visual essays where interaction does part of the explaining.

Travel backwards through saved versions of the web.

Explore a sprawling map of music genres, preserved from Spotify data in 2023.

A collection of polished interactive experiments built around one strong idea at a time.

A search engine that prefers smaller, older and hand-made corners of the web.

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