[NSFW] Check out this awesome collection of summer photos as seen by 23 different photographers. Careful, it is a little bit naughty. You have been warned. Don’t come running back here and tell me how you got fired.
Rewatch the Apollo 17 moon landing in real time. The site includes videos, images and a full transcript and special moments of the entire event. It is incredible to watch. Actually, it is inspiring.
Did you know that you would need 695 3.5 inch floppies to save 1GB worth of files? If you need to know how many floppies you need to save anything, How Many Floppies? has you covered.
This Weekends Mildly Interesting Movie Recommendation
The Man Who Fell to Earth - David Bowie stars as an alien stranded on Earth, navigating human absurdities with a mix of elegance, melancholy, and otherworldly weirdness.
Dive into VTV, a curated monument to bad taste and obscure 80s synth tracks about hamsters.
If you’ve ever wanted a Spotify Discover Weekly called "Actively trying to hurt me", VTV is your new best friend. This site pulls the absolute dregs of YouTube novelty music (think obscure 80s synth tracks about hamsters and bad songs about junk food) and forces you to watch them on a loop. It is a mesmerizing monument to bad taste. It is useless. It is perfect.
Doc and Marty return in Landon’s wild animated tribute to Back to the Future. A chaotic, time-bending demolition derby through nostalgia.
Landon’s Animation Wheelhouse is back at it, turning pop culture into pure chaos. This time, Doc and Marty tear through time in a DeLorean that’s seen better timelines. It’s Back to the Future meets demolition derby, and it’s completely unhinged in the best way.
Habbo Hotel, the pixel-perfect mix of chaos, comfort, and early-internet weirdness. A virtual sofa economy, pool closures, and duck hats.
There was a time on the internet when comfort didn’t come in soft gradients or algorithmically-curated calm. It came in isometric furniture. It came in bright yellow speech bubbles. It came in a hotel lobby full of strangers wearing duck hats and arguing about who stole whose virtual rug.
Habbo Hotel was a place where nothing made sense, and yet everything did.
You’d log in after school, stepping into a pixel world that buzzed with the kind of warm chaos only early online spaces had. Rooms were always a little too full, a little too loud, and somehow exactly what you needed. The whole place felt like a sleepover you weren’t sure you were invited to but somehow ended up hosting.
There were the scammers. The “send me your rare sofa and I’ll clone it” prophets of disappointment. The traders who ran their tiny economy with the seriousness of Wall Street analysts, except their portfolios were made of neon lamps and ice cream machines. There were the raids, those delirious events where 100 avatars swarmed a room in perfectly pointless formation, chanting nonsense, moving as one ridiculous organism.
And then there was The Pool. The Pool, eternally “closed” by mods for reasons no one understood but everyone respected. A myth. A warning. A meme before memes were a thing.
But for all the pixel-madness, Habbo was strangely gentle. It was a place where you found people who stayed up late with you, sitting on virtual beanbags talking about nothing. A place where you built a tiny room that felt like yours; four walls, a cheap rug, maybe a poster; and suddenly the internet felt less like an abyss and more like a clubhouse.
The game was chaotic, silly, unmoderated in all the classic early-web ways. But it had heart. It had warmth. It had that good old-fashioned “we’re all here and no one knows what they’re doing, but wow, isn’t it something?” energy the internet rarely has anymore.
Habbo Hotel wasn’t perfect. But it was welcoming. It was weird. And in its pixelated glow, many of us found our first glimpse of what online community could feel like: messy, hilarious, human.
Oh, Habbo Hotel is still open and playable, but is it?
This week’s mildly interesting distractions: albums in your inbox, too many Wordles, stickers, hobbies, and a cowboy vs. alien movie.
Every weekend, a bunch of links. You could click them, or not. Doesn’t really matter. I already wasted my time putting this together, so the least you could do is scroll through and pretend to care.
1001 Albums Before You Die - It’s an email list that sends you albums every day. Because nothing says “fun” like an inbox full of homework.
Wordle Alternatives - At the time someone counted, there were 292 of these. Now? Probably more. Or less. Whatever.
Sticker Life - A site with thousands of stickers. For scrolling when you don’t feel like doing literally anything else.
Canon Camera Simulator - Pretend you’re a photographer without leaving your chair. It’s like a video game, but for adjusting shutter speed.
Pie Chart Maker - It makes pie charts. That’s it. They look fine. Moving on.
Rick Astley Remix - Yes, you can now legally mess with “Never Gonna Give You Up.” It’s exactly as pointless as it sounds, but in a good way.
Instagreen - Want to look eco-friendly without doing anything eco-friendly? Congrats, the internet has your back.
Hobby Generator - Staring at walls isn’t cutting it? Let a website tell you to start knitting or something.
Type Drums - Bang out some beats by typing. It’s not productive, but neither is most of your internet time.
This Weekends Somewhat Entertaining Movie Recommendation
Cowboys and Aliens (2011): Guns, horses, lasers. Somehow it all fits… sort of.
There are a lot of websites out there on the internet. Many of them are very well known, such as Google, Facebook, and YouTube. But there are also many websites that you may not be familiar with that can be very useful. Here are 23 very useful websites that you may not know about. These websites can be helpful in a variety of ways, such as helping you learn more about a topic, stay organized, avoid SPAM, edit images or simply to help you remain focused when working.
10 Minute Mail: Make a temporary, throwaway email address for when you have to enter your email address to a site but don't want to be bothered with future spam.
Open Peeps: Hand drawn illustration library of people. Design your own or use an illustration that has already been created. You can then use your design across multiple platforms.
Learn Anything: A search engine that will help you start to learn something new.
12 Foot Ladder: Remove annoying paywalls from most sites on the internet.
Dictation.io: In Google Chrome, use speech recognition to write emails and documents. In real time, Dictation accurately transcribes your speech to text. Using voice instructions, you may insert paragraphs, punctuation marks, and even smileys. Recognises most languages too!
Noisli: Many people find it difficult to concentrate when there is no background noise, especially in busy offices and public places. Research has proven that intermittent speech is bad for productivity. However, research has also been shown that any sort of white noise can aid and enhance your output. Noisli allows you to combine random noises and sounds to create your own environment.
TinyWow: Upload your file and you can make just about any change to it that you desire. All for free.
Snapdrop: Similar to Airdrop, instead you can distribute pics, videos, links, and files across all devices connected to the same network.
GetHuman: Few things are more aggravating than phoning customer service and trying to speak with a real, live person. Get Human will instruct you on which buttons to press and phrases to say in order to speak with an actual agent as soon as possible.
Gnoosic: Gnod is a self-adapting system that learns about its surroundings by asking its visitors what they like and dislike. In this version of Gnod, everything revolves on music. Gnod functions as a search engine for obscure music. It will ask you what music you like and then consider what else you might enjoy.
CleanPNG: This website offers high-quality PNG images with no backgrounds for free. Millions of PNGs are available for use in brochures, banners, websites, and other applications. The service offers unlimited free downloads with no registration or other requirements.
Pixlr
Pixlr: A simple utility that does not require installation. You can edit images and create graphics for free in your browser, on your phone, or on your PC.
SuperCook: Supercook searches the most popular culinary, cooking and recipe websites for recipes that use things you already have in your firdge and pantry.
This to That: Choose the correct glue when you need to stick this to that. For example, you should use silicone when sticking glass to leather.
Eat This Much: Eat This Much makes customized meal plans based on your food preferences, budget, and time constraints. With their calorie calculator, weekly meal planning, grocery lists, and other tools, you can achieve your diet and nutritional goals quickly and easily. Create your food plan in seconds.
AlternativeTo: A fantastic website for finding alternatives to pricey or unavailable apps on your platform.
Just Watch: Not sure which streaming service your favorite movie or TV show is on? Just Watch has you covered.
Print Friendly: Turn any website print friendly and a pdf.
Ninite
Ninite: When setting up a new Windows PC, Ninite is a must-visit site. There are many of the most popular apps on its webpage. Check the boxes next to the ones you wish to install and click the download button at the bottom; Ninite will then download a file that will install them all for you. You don't have to go through a slew of installation boxes or worry about toolbars or other nonsense—Ninite handles it all. Got a new Mac? Try macapps.link for a Mac equivalent.
Skiplagged: If you plan on traveling in the near future, you should look into Skiplagged. This website takes advantage of loopholes to bring you bargains that aren't generally available on standard websites.
Down for Everyone or Just Me: When you have difficulty accessing a website, it could be due to a problem on your end or a problem with the website itself. This website makes it simple to find out. Simply enter a website URL to see if this tool has problems accessing it. If it happens, you'll know the problem isn't limited to you.
Unsplash: Free and unlimited images to use anywhere.
Manuals Library: Over 6.5 million manuals for more than 4.7 million products. And, it is continually growing.😳
Fast.com: Powered by Netflix's global server, Fast will tell you how quick your internet connection is. Not stupid ads, just a quick and great tool.
There you have it. The Internet is full of rad websites that can be super useful. If you know of a really useful website, leave a comment below to share with the rest of us.
