Miscellaneous

A topic-centric index of high-quality open datasets across science, government, finance, healthcare and social data.

Check any email or password against every major known data breach in seconds.

A minimalist, collaborative virtual whiteboard tool with a hand-drawn aesthetic, ideal for sketching diagrams, wireframes, and quick notes.

Rigorously sourced charts and explainers on how the world is actually changing, with all data downloadable.

Translation that reads like a person wrote it, noticeably better than the alternatives on European languages.

A real-time weather forecasting platform featuring interactive animated maps for wind patterns, waves, rain, temperature, and atmospheric pressure worldwide.

A live satellite and weather map providing near-real-time satellite imagery, tropical storm tracking, temperature forecasts, and wildfire hotspots.

An independent, non-profit resource offering privacy-focused software recommendations, security guides, and data protection best practices.

Grades the terms of service of major sites and flags the specific clauses that should worry you.

Directory of direct account deletion links, rated by how obstructive each company is.

Definitive reference for time zones, daylight saving, sunrise, eclipses, holidays and date calculations.

Side-by-side time zone comparison that makes scheduling across countries painless.

A comprehensive directory cataloging thousands of free online courses that offer verified certificates and badges upon completion.

Traces where English words actually came from, with sources and dates rather than folk myths.

Reverse dictionary and thesaurus that finds the word when you can only describe the concept.

Native speakers pronouncing words and place names in hundreds of languages.

Plain-language health and medication reference from the US National Library of Medicine, free of SEO junk.

Open database of food products with ingredients, additives and nutrition, searchable by barcode.

Laboratory-grade product testing with published methodology, the community's default before buying a TV, monitor or headphones.

David McCandless's visual essays, still the best argument for what good data design can do.

Over 30,000 archive sound effects from the BBC, free to browse and use under their licence.

Mesmerising animated globe of live wind, ocean currents, temperature and particulate data.

Shows sun position, shadow direction and golden hour for any spot and date, invaluable for photographers and planners.

Drag countries across the world map to see how badly Mercator has been lying to you.

Catalogue of the world's strange, overlooked and wonderful places, organised by where you are going.

Official plain-language guide to EU consumer, travel, work and residence rights, genuinely useful when a company stonewalls you.

A privacy application that allows users to bulk search, wipe, and delete their post history, comments, and messages across more than 30 social media platforms.

An AI-powered task management tool designed to break down overwhelming goals into manageable, step-by-step checklists tailored for neurodivergent individuals.

An interactive 3D map tool that simulates real-time solar shadows across any landscape, city, or mountain range based on topographical data and sun position.

An ultra-high-resolution 3D gigapixel scan of Johannes Vermeer’s famous painting, allowing users to zoom in to microscopic details, paint cracks, and surface topography.

A specific deep-zoom link pointing to Rembrandt’s masterpiece, The Night Watch (De Nachtwacht, 1642, inventory code SK-C-5), hosted on the Rijksmuseum's hyper-resolution scientific viewer.

A real-time global map displaying live lightning strikes and thunder sound waves based on data collected from a community network of detector stations.

A search engine that aggregates product, book, and software recommendations directly from real user discussions on Reddit.

An enormous weekly dump of links from the internet's weirder corners, curated with genuine affection.

A speedrunning game where you race to link from one Wikipedia article to another using only blue links.

The idle game that defined an entire genre and will consume your week if you let it.

Quick tests of reaction time, memory and typing speed, with percentile rankings against millions of others.

A minimalist, endlessly customizable typing test that people genuinely use daily.

Google's doodle-guessing game, with the entire dataset of millions of drawings released publicly.

An interactive map of every undersea cable carrying the internet between continents.

Zoom smoothly from quantum foam to the observable universe in a single continuous slider.

A scale model of the solar system you have to scroll through, which takes a genuinely uncomfortable amount of scrolling.

Thousands of screenshots documenting how websites actually looked from 1991 onward.

Thousands of DOS games, arcade machines and vintage applications playable instantly in the browser.

Calibrated background soundscapes with individual frequency sliders, built by an audio engineer and free to use.