Useless Sites Archive

The Cave of Lascaux What is the Internet for, other than being able to have a virtual cave visit? No, really, it's a pretty cool cave.

Wikipedia: Lamest Edit Wars What are people willing to wage endless online encyclopedia wars over?

Living in Three Centuries: The Faces of Age If you're really lucky, someday you'll look like this.

What's My Blog Rated? Find Out Your Film Rating Get any website rated just like a movie? Close your eyes if it's rated R!

The Worst Jobs In Science 2007 Yes, but they have a crappy job... for SCIENCE!

Feed The Head I honestly have no idea why this exists.

Levers The massive power of computing so that you can... hang things up.

guimp pacman:: world's smallest pacman game Have you ever wanted to play a really tiny game?

The Medieval Bestiary People in the middle ages had some strange ideas about animals.

Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality Boy, it looked way better in the ad!

NYChildren There is a kid from every country in NYC.

Journey of Mankind Watch time vroom by as people spread across the planet.

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Kohler Class Five Sure, it's pretty much just an ad, but you get to flush inappropriate things down the toilet!

Weird Converter What is the height of a hockey puck in eyeballs?

Make your own 1952 Fraction-of-an-inch Adding Machine Yes, you too can add up crazy fraction combinations!

Fit Nation: The Obesity Fight A fat map. A map of fat.

10 Real-life Superheroes (masks, capes and all!) People who really go out there and fight crime!

Unusual Buildings Buildings that don't look like buildings.

Matt Hoyle's Encounters People who have seen strange things.

Maillardet's Automaton at the Franklin Institute Did you read The Invention of Hugo Cabret? Take a look at this guy.

Joint Astronomy Centre – Birthday Stars Find the star that sent its twinkle when you were born.

In Focus: How to use Furoshiki How to wrap a present in a piece of cloth: recycling!

15 Stretches A puppet shows you how to stretch.

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Howtoons Learning to make neat things from cartoons.

Tessa Farmer Sculptures of fairies. Tiny, evil fairies.

MapOfStrange Strange things found in Google Maps

Julia Kissina Meat hair. Yes, meat hair.

EatBetterAmerica.com Sure, a thinly disguised ad, but you get to throw food!

Pee&Poo Adorable little... excrements.

Find a Grave Massive database of the locations of the dead. Plus some famous people!

monoface Like Mr. Potato Head with real heads.

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Animals on the Underground Not rats, but elephants and more on the subway.

Roadside America The coolest stuff to see on a road trip.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The adventure game!

Prelinger Archives Download cool old instructional films!

Science Groove Math and Science Rock.

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SuperBad Most inexplicable site on the web.

Squirrel Fishing Yes, fishing for squirrels.

Tacky Postcard Archive See and send horrible postcards.

Goodies and Games Games from Archie McPhee’s

Dictionaraoke Karaoke plus talking dictionary equals Dictionaraoke.

Toy Lab Toy Gallery Kids put together toy parts, then give the creature a name and powers.

The Human Clock A different picture every minute.

Name Voyager Giant interactive chart of how popular names are over the past 100 years. Cooler than it sounds.

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Mr. Yuk The secret origins of Mr. Yuk. Plus, a Mr. Yuk song!

Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness The absolute strangest instructions you will ever see.

TouchGraph Google Browser See who links to whom (requires Java)

Transportation Futuristics The way people used to think the transportation of the future would be.

Atomic Brand Names Back before radiation was scary, it was used in many brand names.

The 47 Society The secrets of 47.

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The Word Spy The cutting edge of language.

The American Package Museum Historic grocery products, all next to a dime.

Historic Tale Construction Kit Make your own Bayeux tapestry comic strip.

Papercraft Really cool paper crafts, brought to you by a motorcycle company.

Kaiju Big Battel Wrestling plus big rubber monsters equal Kaiju!

Foreign Groceries Museum It’s easier that going to a foreign Safeway.

Shakespearian Insulter Get totally insulted, Shakespeare-style.

Space Art in Children’s Books 1950’s to 1970’s What people thought space would be like: space stations, moon colonies and more!

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Compendium of Lost Words A big list of words that will do you no good.

BevNet Reviews Reviews and ratings of soft drinks. LOTS of soft drinks.

Eigenradio What happens if you mathematically average lots of different music? You can drive your family crazy.

Speech Accent Archive The same paragraph read by people with different accents.

Peep Research Scientific research on the cutting edge... of Marshmallow Peeps.

I Used to Believe: The Childhood Beliefs Site Stuff people believed when they were little.

Today’s Front Pages Front pages from papers all over the world.

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Extreme Ironing The newest extreme sport/laundry chore.

Fatal Facts Accident Reports OSHA shows you what not to do.

BBC 7 BBC radio comedy and drama online.

Writing Under the Shell of an Egg Crazy science experiment/gag that can ruin a good egg.

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War of the Worlds The many skadillions of different covers that the book War of the Worlds has had.

Before Prohibition Many common products used to contain stuff that is now illegal. Just Say No!

The Soluble Song Some kittens are very happy that they are not soluble. They sing.

Fifty Years of Coca Cola Television Advertisements A collection of old Coke TV ads.

Social Hygiene Posters If you think your sex-ed class is hilarious now, take a look at these vintage posters...

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Urban Neighbors Animals in the wilds of New York City.

Live 365 More music than you can shake a stick at.

Orphanage of Cast-Off Mascots The ones that didn’t make it.

The Gallery of Regrettable Food The horrifying dishes of days gone by.

The Dorcus Collection The finest in extremely ugly menswear.

Unshelved A comic strip that takes place in a library—find out what we really do!

Freaky Franks Build your own hot dog with disgusting toppings

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