(mostly) Useful Websites

An Archive Of The World's Best Websites: The Useful, The Interesting, The Absolutely Redundant. (Seriously, WHY are some of these real?)

[kate-jam-and-diamonds]

by Patrick Demarchelier for Marie Claire June 1995

[80sloove]

Biff’s 1985

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game - 30th Anniversary Edition

An almost impossible RPG of the book/radio series, that’s just as addictive but a lot harder to finish. The game was first made in the 1984, when the series became popular, and it actually surprises me that anyone’s completed it in the 30 years or so it’s been around for. 

You take the role of Arthur Dent as you try to stay alive (insucccessfully in my case) throughout the story.

A word of warning

The game will kill you frequently. It's a bit mean like that.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-game-30th-anniversary-edition

[amroyounes]

[this-fagon]

Just save this for later~

[thatdamnokie]

knowledge is power.

[vwalker]

Reminding myself to check out a bunch of these.

[leightaylorwrites]

I just tweeted it and I figure I should also post it here. 

This website literally GRADES YOUR ESSAYS. You can choose your grade level, if you’re using American or British english, what type of paper it is (essay, short story, biography…), and it even checks for plagiarism. THEN once it’s grading your essay, it shows you grammatical errors, suggestions for better sentence structure, and a lot of other things. Reblog to save a life. 

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Sorry I've been AWOL recently! I don't even have an excuse (or any motivation apparently)

[lapt0pp]

make gifs !!!!

earn $100 of rewards from taking some quizzes

random useless website

find recipes from ingredients you have

play with refrigerator magnets online

every audio post you’ve ever reblogged

Shakespeare insult generator

your dashboard in 2011

what happens on the internet in one second?

name combiner

draw a stickman

guess where you are in the world

make spiderweb drawings

creepy wikipedia articles

the weather

find the #1 song played on the day you were born

learn what it’s like to live on minimum wage

who would win a fight between ____ & ____

do stuff with online friends

the bored button

make your own music

just open this and don’t move your cursor (FLASHING LIGHTS TW)

see what your favorite sites looked like years ago

personal letters written by famous people

this is why i’m broke

okay this puts things in perspective and is really rad

icon maker

create an animal

bitch-slap someone with an eel

talk to a robot

watch traffic

delete yourself from certain sites

build a social network

a dog’s social media website

turn your handwriting into a font

explore the universe

throwback playlist

[samurots-deactivated20160616]

i just found this website that can randomly generate a continent for you!! this is great for fantasy writers

plus, you can look at it in 3d!

theres a lot of viewing options and other things! theres an option on-site to take a screenshot, so you don’t have to have a program for that!

you can view it here!

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Dog Lost

A website to help you locate your lost dog, or reunite a dog that you’ve found with their owner. 

It’s a really great idea and, looking at the dogs that have been reunited, it seems as if it really works. 

http://www.doglost.co.uk/

I am not sure whether or not it works outside the UK (sorry), and I also can’t remember how I found this website, tried searching tumblr in case it was from on here, but I found nothing, so if anyone can link me to any post about it, I’d be grateful.

Also on the admin-y side of things, sorry that I haven’t updated in like 2 weeks+, I’m lazy. Sorry.

[chaoticallyprecise]

IF YOU EVER NEED SOMETHING TO READ READ THIS

OK ARE YOU EVER IN NEED OF BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS BUT DON’T KNOW WHAT TO READ NEXT?

I present to you, straight from the internet, whichbook:

Here’s how it works: You click the link, and choose four categories and the extent to which these categories matter:

Then click “go” and it’ll come up with a number of books you might like.

DON’T LIKE THE CATEGORIES? NO PROBLEM - see this little thing:

THIS LITTLE THING WILL TAKE YOU TO THIS SLIGHTLY LARGER THING WHERE YOU CAN CHOOSE A BOOK BASED ON THE FOLLOWING:

YOU NOW HAVE NO EXCUSE TO NOT BE READING SOMETHING BECAUSE WHATEVER YOU WANT THIS SITE WILL COME UP WITH IT.

… Apart from bisexual retired alien dudes. No books on that. Yet.

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Free touch typing lessons on the internet to improve your touch typing skills. You’ll be able to type a lot faster than me for sure. *Concentrates hard, tapping on key at a time*. Have fun!

You do need to make an account :( , but it’s free so that’s a bonus.

http://www.typing.com/tutor/

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Do I Have a Dead Pixel?

This website is an easy lest to see if you have a dead pixel. There’s really not much to say about it except that I've discovered I have a really dirty computer screen, which I hadn't noticed before. :/

http://www.doihaveadeadpixel.com/

[sixpenceee]

This website allows you to “play” with an interactive, realistic looking spider 

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Bicycles per Year

How many bicycles are produced per year?

How much money was spent on public healthcare today?

With data updated every second,this website has some of the most accurate numbers on the internet. See how many people have died and been born today or how much rainforest is lost.

Try it!

http://www.worldometers.info/

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Is Your Computer on?

Are you having trouble telling whether your computer is on? This website will tell you. You’ll never be confused again.

Don’t worry guys, my computer is on!

http://computerpowertest.com/

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Now I Know

Receive a daily fact via email! (Rest assured, it’s easy to unsubscribe and the facts are good.)

An example:

Now I Know – Telling Thyme

For the fatigued among us, there are few greater simple pleasures in life than waking up momentarily in the middle of the night, looking at a clock, and realizing that you have a few hours left before you have to wake up. Being able to return to sleep is a luxury few of us are willing to give up.

But what if you couldn’t see your clock?

This not-so-hypothetical was the norm a few centuries ago, before the invention of safe light sources allowed people to see their surroundings at night. While mechanical clocks were common by the 15th or 16th century, illuminated clock faces or numerals post date the invention of the light bulb. In the 17th century, if one woke before daybreak, determining what time it was required a lot more than simply rolling over and peeking at your alarm clock or cell phone. In most cases, our late-hour waker would have to get out of bed, find moonlight or a candle (and a fire source), and effectively, start their day — just to learn that he or she could have slept another few hours.

Frenchman M. de Villayer would not settle for this.

Villayer developed a special clock to allow him to quickly determine the time at night without fully coming to his senses. Or, rather, by only relying on his senses of touch and smell. As recounted in the books “Clocks and Culture” by Carlo M. Cipolla (per the New York Times, here) and “The Discoverers” by Daniel J. Boorstin, Villayer built a “spice clock” of sorts. At night, he could feel around in the dark for the clock’s hour hand. Each nighttime hour had a different, easily distinguishable spice near where the arrow hand would point. Villayer would simply dip his finger into the spice, taste it, and know with certainty what the approximate hour was. As Boorstin notes, “[e]ven when [Villayer] could not see the clock, he could always taste the time.”

http://nowiknow.com/

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The Scale of the Universe

From the very big to the very small, this site lets you see it all. (That rhymed! Yippee!) It’s a little bit of perspective when you consider how small a human is. overall very fun to use with a very smooth siding motion, lots of interesting facts and serene background music. (Which is very important in a website, obviously)

For example, a planck is very small:

But the universe is much bigger:

But you probably already knew that. I am so unhelpful; I swear, I do try.

Here it is:

http://htwins.net/scale2/

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Big-Ass Message

Send someone a massive message that they cannot ignore! Type your text in, save, and copy the url - it’ll link to the message. Here’s one I made earlier: *Flourishes*

http://bigassmessage.com/a8325

Be warned: The “magic” option flashes really fast! 

http://bigassmessage.com/