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"Useless but addictive sites"

1. 1.
   Neal.fun (The Gold Standard)
2. 2.
   Pointer Pointer
3. 3.
   The Useless Web
4. 4.
   Hacker Typer
5. 5.
   The Bored Button
6. 6.
   Spend Bill Gates' Money
7. 7.
   Cat Bounce
8. 8.
   Long Doge Challenge
9. 9.
   Corgi Orgy
10. 10.
    Paper Toilet
11. 11.
    Zombo.com
12. 12.
    Endless Horse

"Trivia and weird knowledge"

1. 1.
   Wait But Why
2. 2.
   Atlas Obscura
3. 3.
   Snopes
4. 4.
   Guinness World Records
5. 5.
   Worldometer
6. 6.
   The Marginalian (BrainPickings)
7. 7.
   Wired
8. 8.
   The Verge
9. 9.
   Ars Technica
10. 10.
    TED Talks
11. 11.
    Big Think
12. 12.
    Aeon Essays
13. 13.
    Nautilus
14. 14.
    Quanta Magazine
15. 15.
    Engadget

"Browser-based instruments"

1. 1.
   Chrome Music Lab
2. 2.
   Patatap
3. 3.
   Incredibox
4. 4.
   Gnoosic
5. 5.
   Every Noise at Once

"Font games and design tools"

1. 1.
   Type Scale

"Stunning data visualizations"

1. 1.
   The Pudding (Visual Essays)
2. 2.
   Information is Beautiful
3. 3.
   FlowingData
4. 4.
   Statista
5. 5.
   Tableau Gallery
6. 6.
   Visual Capitalist
7. 7.
   Kantar
8. 8.
   Pew Research Center
9. 9.
   Gallup
10. 10.
    YouGov
11. 11.
    Ipsos
12. 12.
    Nielsen

"Legendary internet comics"

1. 1.
   XKCD
2. 2.
   The Oatmeal
3. 3.
   Cyanide & Happiness
4. 4.
   SMBC Comics
5. 5.
   Perry Bible Fellowship
6. 6.
   Questionable Content

"Soundboards and noise"

1. 1.
   myNoise
2. 2.
   Tabletop Audio

"Mixers and copy-paste tools"

1. 1.
   Emoji Kitchen
2. 2.
   Get Emoji

"Policy and geopolitical analysis"

1. 1.
   Brookings Institution
2. 2.
   Chatham House
3. 3.
   Council on Foreign Rel
4. 4.
   CSIS
5. 5.
   Carnegie Endowment
6. 6.
   RAND Corporation
7. 7.
   Atlantic Council
8. 8.
   RUSI (Defense)
9. 9.
   SIPRI (Arms Control)
10. 10.
    International Crisis
11. 11.
    War on the Rocks
12. 12.
    Lawfare

"Specialty coffee culture"

1. 1.
   Sprudge
2. 2.
   Home-Barista
3. 3.
   James Hoffmann (YouTube)
4. 4.
   CoffeeGeek
5. 5.
   Perfect Daily Grind

"Everyday Carry gear"

1. 1.
   Carryology
2. 2.
   EDC Forums
3. 3.
   Everyday Carry
4. 4.
   Pack Hacker

"Fountain pens and stationery"

1. 1.
   The Pen Addict
2. 2.
   Goulet Pens
3. 3.
   JetPens
4. 4.
   Fountain Pen Network
5. 5.
   The Well-Appointed Desk

"Open source alternatives"

1. 1.
   AlternativeTo
2. 2.
   Ninite
3. 3.
   Product Hunt
4. 4.
   DistroWatch
5. 5.
   WineHQ

"Scripts and box office data"

1. 1.
   Box Office Mojo
2. 2.
   Script Slug
3. 3.
   MovieChat (IMDb Archive)
4. 4.
   FILMGRAB

"Independent game databases"

1. 1.
   Itch.io (Indie Games)
2. 2.
   Noclip (Game Maps)
3. 3.
   MyAbandonware
4. 4.
   Cool Math Games
5. 5.
   Kongregate
6. 6.
   Armor Games
7. 7.
   Newgrounds
8. 8.
   HowLongToBeat
9. 9.
   IGDB
10. 10.
    MobyGames
11. 11.
    Speedrun.com
12. 12.
    SteamDB
13. 13.
    Nexus Mods
14. 14.
    ModDB
15. 15.
    GameFAQs

"Typography resources"

1. 1.
   Fontjoy (Pairing)
2. 2.
   WhatFontIs
3. 3.
   Fontfabric

"Architecture news and DBs"

1. 1.
   ArchDaily
2. 2.
   Dezeen
3. 3.
   Design Milk
4. 4.
   Wallpaper*
5. 5.
   Architizer
6. 6.
   Dwell

"Contribute to real science"

1. 1.
   Zooniverse
2. 2.
   Foldit (Protein Game)
3. 3.
   SETI@home

"Satellite and launch data"

1. 1.
   Spaceflight Now
2. 2.
   RocketLaunch.live
3. 3.
   NASA Image Library
4. 4.
   HubbleSite
5. 5.
   ESA (Euro Space)
6. 6.
   Blue Origin

"Primary source documents"

1. 1.
   HathiTrust
2. 2.
   Perseus Digital Library
3. 3.
   Hanover Historical Texts
4. 4.
   Internet History Sourcebooks
5. 5.
   Wilson Center Archive
6. 6.
   Marxists Internet Archive

"Deep knowledge quizzes"

1. 1.
   Sporcle
2. 2.
   JetPunk
3. 3.
   KnowledgeNuts

"Meditation and focus tools"

1. 1.
   Calm
2. 2.
   Headspace
3. 3.
   Insight Timer
4. 4.
   Focusmate
5. 5.
   Pomofocus

"Curated long-form reads"

1. 1.
   Urban Dictionary
2. 2.
   Kottke.org
3. 3.
   Boing Boing
4. 4.
   Longform
5. 5.
   Arts & Letters Daily
6. 6.
   Aeon
7. 7.
   Nautilus
8. 8.
   Metacritic
9. 9.
   Cool Material
10. 10.
    Uncrate
11. 11.
    Gear Patrol

"Ancient internet archives"

1. 1.
   UbuWeb (Avant-Garde)
2. 2.
   Geocities Archive
3. 3.
   Wiby (Classic Web Search)
4. 4.
   Library of Congress
5. 5.
   Europeana
6. 6.
   Digital Public Library US
7. 7.
   World Digital Library

"Number theory databases"

1. 1.
   OEIS (Integer Sequences)
2. 2.
   Wolfram MathWorld
3. 3.
   Numberphile

"Historical map collections"

1. 1.
   Old Maps Online
2. 2.
   David Rumsey Collection
3. 3.
   Library of Congress Maps
4. 4.
   OpenStreetMap

"MUDs and interactive fiction"

1. 1.
   The MUD Connector
2. 2.
   IFDB (Interactive Fic)
3. 3.
   Infocom Gallery
4. 4.
   AI Dungeon
5. 5.
   Play Zork Online

"Cyberpunk hardware builds"

1. 1.
   Cyberdeck Cafe
2. 2.
   r/cyberDeck
3. 3.
   Hackaday Cyberdecks
4. 4.
   Fission (Decentralized)
5. 5.
   Hundred Rabbits

"Interactive digital art"

1. 1.
   The Zoom Quilt
2. 2.
   Weave Silk
3. 3.
   Koalas to the Max
4. 4.
   Staggering Beauty (Warning)
5. 5.
   Pixlr E
6. 6.
   Photopea
7. 7.
   Remove.bg

"Generative AI tools and toys"

1. 1.
   Quick Draw!
2. 2.
   This Person Does Not Exist
3. 3.
   InspiroBot
4. 4.
   Craiyon (DALL-E Mini)
5. 5.
   AutoDraw

"Physics and fluid sims"

1. 1.
   Sandspiel
2. 2.
   WebGL Fluid Simulation

"Riddles and ARG-style sites"

1. 1.
   SCP Foundation
2. 2.
   Creepypasta
3. 3.
   Library of Babel

"Palette generators and games"

1. 1.
   Coolors
2. 2.
   Color Hunt

"Aesthetics typing games"

1. 1.
   Monkeytype
2. 2.
   Typeracer
3. 3.
   Keybr

"Brain-breaking images"

1. 1.
   Michael Bach Illusions

"Statistical map visualizations"

1. 1.
   Ancient Earth Globe
2. 2.
   GeaCron (History Map)
3. 3.
   MapChart
4. 4.
   Windy.com
5. 5.
   Lightning Maps

"Interactive geometry/math"

1. 1.
   Desmos Graphing
2. 2.
   Wolfram Alpha
3. 3.
   GeoGebra
4. 4.
   Math Is Fun

"Global financial data & trends"

1. 1.
   The World Bank
2. 2.
   IMF
3. 3.
   OECD Data
4. 4.
   World Economic Forum
5. 5.
   Bloomberg Economics
6. 6.
   Financial Times Econ
7. 7.
   Big Mac Index

"NGO reports and watchdogs"

1. 1.
   Amnesty International
2. 2.
   Human Rights Watch
3. 3.
   Freedom House
4. 4.
   Transparency Int.
5. 5.
   Reporters w/o Borders
6. 6.
   ACLU
7. 7.
   SPLC

"National space program sites"

1. 1.
   JAXA (Japan Space)
2. 2.
   CNSA (China Space)
3. 3.
   ISRO (India Space)
4. 4.
   CSA (Canada Space)
5. 5.
   DLR (German Space)
6. 6.
   CNES (French Space)

"City design and transit data"

1. 1.
   Bloomberg CityLab
2. 2.
   Planetizen
3. 3.
   Strong Towns
4. 4.
   New Urbanism
5. 5.
   SkyscraperCity
6. 6.
   Urban Land Magazine
7. 7.
   Next City

"Open source OS news"

1. 1.
   Phoronix
2. 2.
   OMG! Ubuntu!
3. 3.
   ArchWiki
4. 4.
   nixCraft
5. 5.
   Linux Journal

"Programmer blogs & forums"

1. 1.
   DEV Community
2. 2.
   Hashnode
3. 3.
   daily.dev
4. 4.
   Indie Hackers
5. 5.
   Lobsters
6. 6.
   DZone
7. 7.
   InfoQ

"Map-based challenges"

1. 1.
   City Guesser
2. 2.
   Geotastic
3. 3.
   Seterra Geography

"Camera gear deep dives"

1. 1.
   DPReview
2. 2.
   PetaPixel
3. 3.
   Fstoppers
4. 4.
   Imaging Resource
5. 5.
   Camera Labs
6. 6.
   Lensrentals Blog
7. 7.
   Exif Data Viewer

"Discographies and discovery"

1. 1.
   Discogs
2. 2.
   Rate Your Music
3. 3.
   Last.fm
4. 4.
   Bandcamp

"Hobbyist keyboard data"

1. 1.
   Deskthority
2. 2.
   Geekhack
3. 3.
   Drop (Keyboards)
4. 4.
   KBDfans
5. 5.
   NovelKeys
6. 6.
   CannonKeys
7. 7.
   Omnitype
8. 8.
   Keychron
9. 9.
   ZSA (Moonlander)
10. 10.
    QMK Firmware
11. 11.
    VIA Configurator
12. 12.
    Switch and Click

"High-res art collections"

1. 1.
   Rijksstudio
2. 2.
   The Met Collection
3. 3.
   MoMA Collection
4. 4.
   Tate Art
5. 5.
   Getty Search Gateway
6. 6.
   Art Institute Chicago

"Historical archives/maps"

1. 1.
   History.com
2. 2.
   Smithsonian Mag
3. 3.
   Etymonline

"Sci-fi concepts and news"

1. 1.
   Futurism
2. 2.
   Phys.org
3. 3.
   ScienceDaily

"Academic cinema analysis"

1. 1.
   The Criterion Collection
2. 2.
   Senses of Cinema
3. 3.
   Sight and Sound
4. 4.
   Film Comment
5. 5.
   RogerEbert.com
6. 6.
   MUBI Notebook
7. 7.
   Reverse Shot
8. 8.
   Bright Lights Film Journal
9. 9.
   Cineaste
10. 10.
    CinemaBlend
11. 11.
    Screen Rant
12. 12.
    Collider
13. 13.
    IndieWire
14. 14.
    Variety
15. 15.
    Hollywood Reporter

"Open courseware & skills"

1. 1.
   Open Culture
2. 2.
   Coursera
3. 3.
   Khan Academy
4. 4.
   MIT OpenCourseWare
5. 5.
   Wolfram MathWorld
6. 6.
   TED-Ed
7. 7.
   Codecademy
8. 8.
   freeCodeCamp
9. 9.
   Duolingo
10. 10.
    Memrise
11. 11.
    Forvo (Pronunciation)
12. 12.
    DOAJ (Open Journals)
13. 13.
    JSTOR Open Content
14. 14.
    Google Scholar
15. 15.
    ResearchGate

"Competitive programming sites"

1. 1.
   LeetCode
2. 2.
   HackerRank
3. 3.
   Codeforces
4. 4.
   Exercism
5. 5.
   Project Euler
6. 6.
   Topcoder
7. 7.
   CyberChef

"Niche internet radio stations"

1. 1.
   SomaFM
2. 2.
   NTS Radio
3. 3.
   Boiler Room
4. 4.
   KEXP

"90s/00s web aesthetic & art"

1. 1.
   Poolsuite (Retro FM)
2. 2.
   Cameron's World
3. 3.
   GifCities (GeoCities Search)
4. 4.
   Hypnospace Outlaw (IRL)
5. 5.
   Neocities Browse
6. 6.
   Museum of ZZT
7. 7.
   Winamp Skin Museum
8. 8.
   Nightwave Plaza
9. 9.
   Hampster Dance History
10. 10.
    Space Jam 1996
11. 11.
    Dole/Kemp '96
12. 12.
    Heaven's Gate (Cult Site)

"VHS rips and lost media"

1. 1.
   The Lost Media Wiki
2. 2.
   Museum Endangered Sounds
3. 3.
   UbuWeb Film
4. 4.
   Night Flight Plus
5. 5.
   Prelinger Archives

"Databending and visual noise"

1. 1.
   r/glitch_art
2. 2.
   Databending Lab
3. 3.
   This Art Does Not Exist
4. 4.
   AI Weirdness
5. 5.
   PhotoMosh
6. 6.
   Glitch Lab
7. 7.
   Corrupt a File

"Nostalgia and internet history"

1. 1.
   The Wayback Machine
2. 2.
   Windows 93
3. 3.
   JS Paint

"Background noise generators"

1. 1.
   Rainy Mood
2. 2.
   A Soft Murmur

"Personality and logic quizzes"

1. 1.
   16 Personalities
2. 2.
   Human Benchmark

"Bizarre product galleries"

1. 1.
   CamelCamelCamel (Price Hist)
2. 2.
   ShutUpAndTakeMyMoney
3. 3.
   The Something Store
4. 4.
   Archie McPhee
5. 5.
   United Nuclear

""What to watch" engines"

1. 1.
   TasteDive
2. 2.
   JustWatch (Streaming Guide)
3. 3.
   Letterboxd
4. 4.
   Rotten Tomatoes
5. 5.
   IMDB Top 250

"Cognitive exercise games"

1. 1.
   Lumosity
2. 2.
   Brilliant
3. 3.
   Sudoku.com
4. 4.
   Chess.com
5. 5.
   Lichess

"DIY and solution databases"

1. 1.
   Instructables
2. 2.
   WikiHow Randomizer
3. 3.
   Lifehacker
4. 4.
   Make: Magazine

"Obscure video aggregators"

1. 1.
   Vimeo Staff Picks

"Major research institutions"

1. 1.
   CERN
2. 2.
   Max Planck Society
3. 3.
   CNRS (France)
4. 4.
   NIH (USA)

"Hi-Fi and headphone reviews"

1. 1.
   Head-Fi
2. 2.
   Stereophile
3. 3.
   Audio Science Review
4. 4.
   What Hi-Fi?
5. 5.
   RTINGS.com

"Horology and watch news"

1. 1.
   Hodinkee
2. 2.
   Worn & Wound
3. 3.
   aBlogtoWatch
4. 4.
   Fratello Watches
5. 5.
   Chrono24

"Data protection utilities"

1. 1.
   Terms of Service; Didn't Read
2. 2.
   PrivacyTools.io
3. 3.
   Have I Been Pwned?
4. 4.
   10 Minute Mail
5. 5.
   Proton Mail
6. 6.
   DuckDuckGo
7. 7.
   Tor Project

"Samples and music data"

1. 1.
   WhoSampled
2. 2.
   Setlist.fm
3. 3.
   SongBPM
4. 4.
   AllMusic
5. 5.
   Genius
6. 6.
   AZLyrics
7. 7.
   Encyclopaedia Metallum

"Cooking theory and recipes"

1. 1.
   Serious Eats
2. 2.
   Bon Appétit
3. 3.
   Allrecipes

"Production news and VSTs"

1. 1.
   KVR Audio
2. 2.
   Gearspace (Gearslutz)
3. 3.
   Sound On Sound
4. 4.
   MusicRadar
5. 5.
   CDM (Create Digital Music)
6. 6.
   Bedroom Producers Blog

"High-end visual inspiration"

1. 1.
   Behance
2. 2.
   Dribbble
3. 3.
   ArtStation
4. 4.
   Colossal
5. 5.
   Creative Bloq
6. 6.
   Abduzeedo
7. 7.
   Designboom

"Emulation and history"

1. 1.
   Emuparadise (Info Only)
2. 2.
   RetroArch
3. 3.
   OldVersion.com
4. 4.
   Romhacking.net
5. 5.
   Zophar's Domain
6. 6.
   Vimm's Lair

"Scores and recordings"

1. 1.
   IMSLP (Sheet Music)
2. 2.
   Bach Cantatas Website
3. 3.
   Musopen
4. 4.
   Operabase
5. 5.
   Gramophone

"References for builders"

1. 1.
   Stack Overflow
2. 2.
   MDN Web Docs
3. 3.
   GitHub Explore
4. 4.
   CSS-Tricks
5. 5.
   Processing
6. 6.
   Glitch
7. 7.
   Replit
8. 8.
   StackBlitz
9. 9.
   JSFiddle
10. 10.
    CodeSandbox
11. 11.
    Smashing Magazine
12. 12.
    A List Apart

"Vocabulary and immersion"

1. 1.
   Babbel Magazine
2. 2.
   italki
3. 3.
   AnkiWeb

"Jazz history and discog"

1. 1.
   Jazz Discography Project
2. 2.
   All About Jazz
3. 3.
   Blue Note Records
4. 4.
   DownBeat

"3D print and electronics"

1. 1.
   Thingiverse
2. 2.
   Printables
3. 3.
   Adafruit Learning
4. 4.
   Blender
5. 5.
   Unity
6. 6.
   Unreal Engine
7. 7.
   Godot Engine
8. 8.
   Hackaday.io (Projects)
9. 9.
   Tindie
10. 10.
    SparkFun
11. 11.
    Pololu Robotics
12. 12.
    Seeed Studio
13. 13.
    DFRobot
14. 14.
    Electromaker
15. 15.
    Circuit Digest

"Niche search engines"

1. 1.
   Wiby (Surprise Search)
2. 2.
   Million Short
3. 3.
   McBroken (Ice Cream Map)
4. 4.
   Hacker News

"Media manipulation tools"

1. 1.
   CloudConvert
2. 2.
   TinyJPG
3. 3.
   Squoosh (Google)
4. 4.
   Vector Magic
5. 5.
   PDF2Go
6. 6.
   Smallpdf
7. 7.
   Zamzar

"Open source intelligence (OSINT)"

1. 1.
   Bellingcat
2. 2.
   ProPublica
3. 3.
   FactCheck.org
4. 4.
   OpenSecrets
5. 5.
   The Intercept
6. 6.
   CIA World Factbook
7. 7.
   Bellingcat Russia
8. 8.
   OCCRP (Corruption)
9. 9.
   ICIJ (Panama Papers)
10. 10.
    Public Integrity
11. 11.
    Reveal (CIR)
12. 12.
    Marshall Project