I’m surprised we don’t have a thread dedicated to those corners of the internet which are interesting, unusual, fun or fascinating, so I thought we ought to start one. Just somewhere we can share great online finds, weird stuff that pass the time, are a useful resource, or whatever other criteria.
Every now and then I find stuff that I just have to share and it might be fun to add them here and see what people think.
So I’ll start and let’s see if this withers on the vine. I have visited and tested all of these.
This site lists chairs used in Star Trek and works out what they are. Geekery at its finest:
Animal taxonomy game:
https://metazooa.com/game
This site switches between railway webcams in the US based on the train timetable so you don’t have to spend too long watching an empty track:
https://train.api.connelly.casa
NES simulator (with countless games). There’s also a SNES equivalent…
This guy runs a bunch of servers and this site lists in real time the username and password guesses of every hacking attempt. Not a site to spend hours on perhaps but an interesting insight:
https://brute.fail/
Hex based clock:
https://retr0.id/stuff/2038