Websurfing
An agglomeration of interesting, or at least to me, links and things to explore online that aren't just mind-numbing slop that's shovelled down your gullet by "the algorithm".
Last Updated: 23/12/25
Count: 32
Games
- [A game with clues like crosswords, without the grid]
- A game designed to be played upon your father's death by you and whatever cabal of fruits, junkies, and sluts you call your friends in order you earn your inheritence.
- A -dle-type game that has all the fun of looking at abhorrent stadium food without any of the misery of being the person who has to eat it!
- "Why don't you visit more often?" -grandma
- Aptly named web-browser golfing!
Articles
- The Boys Are Back In Town.
- In September of 2023 the greatest scientific discovery, threatening to completely overturn the foundations of evolutionary biology and the known geological history of Earth, was made but mysteriously no one is talking about it.
Blogs & Comics
- The world's only open-access beer-reviewed scientific journal.
- A blog born to answer one question about an obscure 1980's adventure gamebook which has since expanded to posts about Robot Wars toys, "Garfield's Favourite Game", 130 dates with David Mitchell and weird things bought from charity shops.
- Daily updates during the week from a Robyn Anderson, who's been fostering over 500 cats since 2005! The scientists are saying that's a lot of cats.
- [citation needed]
- A collaborative hard science-fiction based Wikipedia from 10,000 years in the future.
Webmastery
- You have, almost certainly, by now noticed the cat running around the site, which comes from this script, or more specifically this fork that allows you to pet the cat by clicking it.
- Many NeoCities users would consider themselves fans of the "old web", trying to emulate the heyday of 90's-00's personal sites thanks to hosting services like GeoCities. But if you want to make a 90's inspired site, it's a good idea to check out the authentic things.
Tools
- Social media video downloader that works, it just works it, simply just works. It's incredible honestly.
- It's really easy to mod your 3DS.
Videos
Wikipedia
- Egg balancing is not only possible during equinoxes, Nuclear Gandhi never actually existed, sleeping in a closed room with a fan will not kill you, the Minute Waltz takes two minutes to play and many other things you might have gotten wrong.
- How to earn a cheque for one hexadecimal dollar that you probably won't cash in.
Audio
- A site of music that makes you wonder what the distinction is between "welsh hip-hop" and "guatemalan pop", or what "neo honky tonk" even is.
Geological
- Take a virtual field trip to the Grand Canyon, or Mars or maybe just a really old lake.
- Lord and saviour of all who have ever taken a module involving geological thin sections.
- Everyone's deepest desire is an interactive geologic map of the entire globe where they can go and find their house and see what it's built on. If it isn't, then go and look anyway.
- Have you ever wanted to learn about the greatest class of arthropods to ever exist in Earth's history? Now you can!
Other
- Welcome to the fast-paced high-intensity world of fly genetics.
- "House, we need to analyse the medical accuracy of every episode of the show." "Did you try the website drug?"
- You might assume the word "Wiki", referring to a user-editable site of some kind, originated with Wikipedia, when the real first Wiki was named after a Hawaiian shuttle bus
- Have your perspective of the world challenged and changed by experiencing what you'd see if you were inside a bag of cornflakes
- Daily astronomical images from NASA accompanied by an astronomer's explanation of the phenomena you are currently admiring.
- Digitised excerpts from the Aerofilms collection, specifically archiving aerial photographs of the UK from 1919 up to 1953.
- A website initially focusing on dissecting the tropes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". It has since evolved into an all-encompassing dictionary of every possible tool, character, device or gimmick needed to make a story or to abstract your favourite media down to its core components.
- My Year 6 teacher showed us this site about the scale of objects throughout the universe and 11 year old me thought it was the coolest thing ever just because it had the size of a Minecraft world in it.