A field guide to boring and unusual websites.
Notes on the internet's quiet, strange, single-purpose corners: the sites that do one odd thing, and the subjects behind them.
Latest writing
- 08 Sep 2026
CacheMonet: the website that pairs random GIFs into endless generative art
CacheMonet is a single web page that has quietly made art by itself since 2013, slamming two randomly chosen animated GIFs together over a looping soundtrack and swapping them for a fresh pair every few seconds.
- 07 Sep 2026
Every UUID: the website that lists all 5.3 undecillion UUIDs
Every UUID is a single web page that lets a visitor scroll and search all 5.3 undecillion version-4 UUIDs, each one computed on the fly in a fixed but random-looking order.
- 05 Sep 2026
Drawing Garden: the website where your mouse plants emoji
Drawing Garden turns simple mouse movements into a spreading garden of emoji plants and creatures, each one triggering a soft, consonant note.
- 02 Sep 2026
Patatap: the website that turns your keyboard into a tiny instrument
Patatap turns any keyboard into a small instrument, pairing 26 letters with 26 sounds and animations that fire together.
- 31 Aug 2026
WindowSwap: the website that lets you look out of a stranger's window for ten minutes
One button loads a real, ten-minute video shot from someone else's window, somewhere in the world.
- 30 Aug 2026
MapCrunch: the website that teleports you to a random corner of Google Street View
One button, one random panorama, the entire mapped world treated like a slot machine.
- 28 Aug 2026
Paper Toilet: the website where you unroll a toilet roll by scrolling
A single-serving net-art piece from 2006 that turns idle scrolling into an unspooling roll of paper.
- 18 Aug 2026
Xikipedia: the Website That Turns Wikipedia Into an Endless Scroll
A single-purpose site that reformats the encyclopedia into a bottomless feed of one random article after another.
- 17 Aug 2026
Knock Knock: the Website That Lets You Hear the Internet’s Background Noise
A site that turns the constant, automated probing of the open internet into something you can watch and hear.
- 16 Aug 2026
The Weather Channel Retro: a Website That Brings Back Local on the 8s
A single-page revival of the smooth-jazz, blocky-icon weather segments that once filled cable television.
- 15 Aug 2026
Firewood Splitting Simulator: the Website That Just Wants You to Split One More Log
A single-purpose web toy whose entire offering is the clean, repeatable satisfaction of splitting a log.
- 14 Aug 2026
Cursor Camp: the Website Where You Hang Out as a Tiny Arrow
A single-room website whose entire activity is watching other people’s cursors drift around next to yours.
- 13 Aug 2026
Did Tiger Woods Crash His Car Today: a Website With One Question and One Word
A single-purpose site that answers, in one enormous word, whether the golfer has had a car accident today.
- 13 Aug 2026
Downdetector's Downdetector: the Website That Watches the Watchman
A single-purpose site that exists only to tell you whether the internet’s favourite outage tracker is itself down.
- 08 Aug 2026
Koalas to the Max
Koalas to the Max asks a visitor to click a picture of a koala and keep clicking, forever, with nothing else to discover.
- 08 Aug 2026
Find the Invisible Cow
A browser game with a blank screen and a voice that yells louder the closer your cursor gets to a hidden cow.
- 08 Aug 2026
Cat Bounce
The 2012 website where you fling cats around the screen with simulated gravity, and it won a Webby for weirdness.
- 06 Aug 2026
Eel Slap
The one-joke website, running since 2011, where a flick of the mouse swings an eel.
- 06 Aug 2026
Pointer Pointer
Pointer Pointer
- 28 Jul 2026
50 Useless Websites to Visit When Bored (2026): The Ultimate Tested List
A hand-checked tour of fifty gloriously pointless websites, every link opened and confirmed working in July 2026.
- 27 Jul 2026
Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World Yet? A Website Has Been Checking Since 2008
A single-purpose website has tracked the fate of the planet since the Large Hadron Collider switched on, and its answer has not changed once.
The websites
Five small, self-contained things, each doing one useless job well. Roll the die on the hub, or start wherever you like.
The Bureau of Tiny Approvals
A 1978 desktop console that stamps, files, and shrugs at absurd little exemption requests.
thebureauoftinyapprovals.com
The Bureau of Very Slow News
Cosmic and geological events, reported live, none of which resolve within your lifetime.
bureauofveryslownews.com
Just Skedaddling
A single generative artwork that would very much prefer not to be disturbed.
justskedaddling.com
Sandpile
A pile of sand self-organizing into criticality. Reload and this pile is gone for good.
sandpile.art
Today's Rock
Every day the whole planet gets one procedurally generated rock. Gone at midnight UTC.
todaysrock.art