Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
Holocloth
Static — a static page about static
A page that does not change, cataloguing forty centuries of the word it shares a name with. Type into it and your own words render as a typeface made of live noise — and now that's every word on the page, not just the headline. Press the button and even the words hold still.
we were online
Seasons in Pentameter
This website displays the 72 pentads, each a five-day microseason in the Japanese calendar.
tree.fm – Tune Into Forests From Around The World 🌳🔈
People around the world recorded the sounds of their forests, so you can escape into nature, while in lockdown or unable to travel. Use this site to chill, meditate or do some digital shinrin-yoku.

Are.na Hypernormalisation
Pull images and text from are.na channels and combine them into a strangely familiar documentary critique of late capitalism. Good for full-screen ambient displays, or just staring into the void.

Cybernetics Image Library
A living visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field.


The Sites of The Useless Web
The current roster of useless websites on The Useless Web — with the story behind each one.
