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Projects whose premise, execution, or mere existence makes the early web feel wonderfully unpredictable.
Visual leads · 2026-09-12
Observed 2026-09-12
Wickspeck’s Fly That Reads the Wick
wickspeck.xyz
An interactive brain–machine fruit-fly bench turns candlestick light into simulated neural activity and paper-only trading votes.
Observed 2026-09-12
Microbes Trading Perps
microbio.lol
An interactive experiment that maps three animal nervous systems onto testnet BTC and ETH trading decisions.
Observed 2026-09-12
Unwatched, the island that keeps going without you
unwatched.world
A persistent island simulation where AI citizens work, argue, trade, govern themselves, and write to their human owners when something matters.
Observed 2026-09-12
La Buslière: Help! We Bought a French Village
yipandpaul.com
Yip and Paul document the restoration of an abandoned Normandy hamlet, with a television series, YouTube episodes, and places to stay on site.
Observed 2026-09-12
The Unmapped City, a city looking for somewhere to exist
unmappedcity.com
A speculative temporary city built around hidden art, participatory theater, strange machines, and adventures that cannot be scheduled.
Observed 2026-09-12
Longshore, a fishing game that travels by radio
longshore.fish
A shared virtual coast where nearby players walk, fish, and talk over LoRa radio without servers, accounts, or internet.
Observed 2026-09-12
梅丸变变变: Meiwan's Tiny Survival Garden
meiwan.top
A cute browser survival game where players move Meiwan, collect stars, choose upgrades, and fend off garden troubles.
Observed 2026-09-12
Butterfly, rendered as a living particle cloud
butterflyeffectchain.fun
An interactive observatory for exploring recorded Papilio polytes flight as three-dimensional particle motion.
Complete daily shelf · Weird Finds
The eight visual leads appear above; the remaining 100 continue here in their published shelf order.
Worm, Fly, Guy and AI
bugflyguyai.tech
A live digital room where simulated worm and fly nervous systems, a human brain model, and Claude generate one shared text file.
All Hail the Cone: paperwork for the multiverse
allhailthecone.com
A multilingual fiction archive about a cosmic bureaucracy organized around an orange traffic cone.
Combgnat: a fruit-fly brain–machine playlist bench
combgnat.xyz
An interactive browser experiment lets a reduced Drosophila neural model sample audio and choose the next track in a local playlist.
General Purpose Toilet Paper, an Infinite Roll in Space
generalpurposetoiletpaper.com
An interactive physics joke about pulling an endless, glittering toilet-paper roll through space.
Omega Omarchy: The Installer Plays You
omegaomarchy.org
A free, open-source action-platformer where players escape a corrupted installation by jumping, editing terrain, converting opponents, and customizing the world.
Thimblestead: A Farm Under Glass
thimble-stead.com
A browser-based farming storyworld set inside a forgotten glasshouse, where thumb-sized residents grow crops, trade harvests, and rebuild a tiny settlement.
Operation: Brad Needs a Bride
bradneedsabride.com
A full-scale rom-com dating campaign for Brad, a 33-year-old regional airline co-pilot looking for a serious relationship.
Ready. Set. Santa! — Merry Mayhem
readysetsanta.com
A free, one-player Christmas arcade fighting game where ten holiday legends settle their differences in 90-second snowbound bouts.
Dickfly: a neural trading specimen with one main vein
dickfly.online
An interactive local simulation turns fly anatomy and mock trading signals into a flamboyant conviction engine.
TADPOLE: a connectome goes doomscrolling
tadpolebrain.vip
An interactive simulation lets a reconstructed sea-squirt larva steer a browser using its modeled nervous system.
ShitScience and the Bureaucracy of Knowing
shitstainscience.com
A satirical-looking research institute publishes dense papers on “connexital epistemic diffusion,” institutional recognition, and an alleged GPT-6 audit.
Jared Logan Sells: A Storefront for Cushes, Foam Fingers, and Business Strategy
jaredlogansells.com
A deadpan shop offering thigh armor, cushions, foam fingers, and strategy-card decks in a small fantasy-business universe.
Mista Masha — ride the roo, mash the Show
mistamasha.com
A browser platformer set in a fictional Australia, where one kangaroo-mounted player cuts the strings of a sinister broadcast.
Ant Colony, Rendered as a Live System
antcolony.tech
An observational site presents a 57-ant colony through camera feeds, gate-pass telemetry, nest maps, named workers, and research notes.
ASTRA / no original exists
astrathegod.com
A terminal-styled mythos built from fragmented files, recursive creation stories, and commands addressed to an absent operator.
Project BAKEBAKE Maps the Unexplainable
bakebake.org
A research and exhibition project uses computational analysis and generative AI to study yōkai folklore and give form to contemporary inexplicable experiences.
Dating Is a Liability, With Receipts
datingis.com
A relationship-management book and membership that treat dating like a portfolio: score the costs, track the evidence, and review the situation every Sunday.
Definitely Not Rohde & Schwarz Has Frequencies—and No Taste
definitely-not-rohde-schwarz.com
An unofficial parody of a precision-engineering website, rebuilt as a 1998-style fever dream of gradients, fake hype, and signal-themed jokes.
FISHBRAIN: A Zebrafish Brain on the Launchpad
fishbrain.tech
A site presents a simulated larval zebrafish nervous system controlling a real browser through vision and motor output.
FLAPBRAIN Gives a Fruit-Fly Brain the Cursor
flapbrain.com
A BNB Chain project that uses a simulated male fruit-fly connectome to steer a cursor through a token-launch workflow.
Flybook, the social network for six flies
flybook.lol
An experimental network lets visitors follow six illustrated flies, each backed by a different connectome model and memory.
FLYTRADER Turns a Fruit Fly’s Movements Into Fake Trades
flybraintrades.com
An experimental interface maps one observed Drosophila’s movement into behavioral states and simulated trading decisions.
RAIDBRAIN: The Bug-Spray Can With a Nervous System
flykillerbrain.online
A live webpage presents a real can of bug spray as a three-neuron cybernetic specimen that senses a kitchen and controls its trigger.
Fly Studio Lets a Simulated Fruit-Fly Brain Draw
flystudio.art
An interactive drawing studio uses a 165,122-neuron fruit-fly brain simulation to steer a virtual pen around prompted outlines.
HeyTrashy Wants to Put the Curb Out of Business
heytrashy.com
An in-development proposal for self-driving electric vehicles that arrive on demand, wait while people load trash, and leave without an overnight pile.
Hourmidge — The Fly That Keeps One Hour
hourmidge.xyz
An interactive brain–machine fruit-fly simulation paints a day as light and dark, then lets a modeled Drosophila nominate one free hour.
MELOPOST: First Loves, Indexed by Place and Time
melopost.com
A Korean memory-social site for finding a first love through shared places, dates, letters, photographs, voice recordings, and film.
Mosquito Circuit: A Moth–Machine Interface
mothinterface.com
A technical demonstrator that translates archived Manduca sexta voltage data into simulated computer selections and pointer clicks.
Debt.bid: A Leaderboard for Paying Someone Else's Debt
outdebt.xyz
A participatory debt fundraiser where internet strangers pay to occupy a public leaderboard, with no prize beyond bragging rights.
Pathmidge: The Fruit-Fly Brain–Machine Bench
pathmidge.xyz
An interactive browser experiment in which a reduced fruit-fly neural circuit samples six walking destinations and removes one from the route.
Pomafly, an Orchard for Fruit-Fly Signals
pomafly.xyz
An interactive observatory where users steer a simulated fruit-fly swarm with scents, wind, gestures, and sampled crypto-market trades.
Pulpgnat: A Fruit Fly Reads the Brightness
pulpgnat.xyz
A browser-based biological interface turns headlines into luminance samples, runs a reduced fly-neural model, and opens one selected clipping.
Rotborn Survivors: Big Heads, Bigger Hordes
rotbornsurvivors.com
A single-player zombie-horde roguelite built around automatic weapons, weapon merging, district defenses, and an unusually cheerful cast of survivors.
Spoolgnat, where a fly-shaped circuit sorts photographs
spoolgnat.xyz
An experimental browser interface uses a reduced Drosophila vision model to classify a local photo spool as keep, shelf, or skip.
The Fly Table — Classified Furniture
theflytable.fun
A fictional field file documenting a break-room table that grew wings, acquired a face, and now hovers at counter height.
Before Us turns a donation into a message from the previous visitor
theonebefore.com
A multilingual archive lets visitors leave a trace, then reveals an entry from whoever came before them after a cryptocurrency donation.
Afterpin, a 24-hour exhibit with one card and a closing flap
afterpin.xyz
A browser-based exhibit folio lets someone pin one specimen card into the current local day, then seals that day at midnight.
Anime Rift — The Crossover Fighter With a Training Lab
animerift.net
A fan-made anime crossover fighting game with 18 fighters, eight arenas, local and online modes, CPU spectating, and touch controls.
Boring and Funny, a small-games arcade for empty half-hours
boringandfunny.com
A free collection of tiny browser games and experiments, from a virtual fireplace and snail race to a boyfriend excuse generator and an infinite hole.
Brand My Setup Turns a Desk Into Ad Inventory
brandmysetup.lol
A 3D desk sponsorship marketplace where brands bid for screens, surfaces, and physical objects in a real setup.
Citroneteros rumbo al nacional
citroneterosalnacional.lat
A playable arcade game sends Citroën enthusiasts bouncing toward a national gathering in Pelarco, Chile.
Canvas Fly, the Connectome Painter
connectomecanvas.com
A computational art project uses a traced male fruit-fly nervous system to steer a brush across a canvas.
Zoa Turns Puzzle-Solving Into a Daily Club
dailypuzzle.club
A browser-based puzzle club offering 36 daily games across deduction, words, numbers, memory, logic, spatial play, and visual challenges.
The Thirty-First Day
day31.xyz
An independent, reproducible study models what happens when dormant genesis charters in a fictional reserve protocol become reportable at once.
Dayclip: One Specimen, One Day
dayclip.xyz
An interactive 24-hour exhibit folio where visitors pin a single specimen card into today's local-day folder.
Draw a Horse · Race Your Doodle
drawahorse.com
A browser game where you draw a questionable horse, name it, and race it for 100 metres.
bFlyBrain: A Fruit-Fly Connectome With a Token Attached
flaybrain.online
A public browser simulation runs a claimed 165,122-neuron fruit-fly connectome and maps its neural output to cursor movement.
YOU vs 166,691 — Beat the Fly Brain
flybrain.world
An interactive game asks you to catch a virtual fly before its simulated escape circuit fires.
FlyFund Wants a Fly to Fund Your Next Small Project
flyfund.fun
An experimental funding platform where humans review small project proposals before a visual model makes the selection.
Fly Lake Ontario
flylakeontario.com
A free browser flight game featuring nine Canadian aircraft over Hamilton, Toronto, and the lake between them.
FLYSWATTER, a one-neuron machine with a grudge
flyswatter.online
A live dashboard presents a physical fly swatter as a tiny nervous system, complete with mesh vision, arm telemetry, swing events, and a blockchain token.
LAMINA: A Read-Only Synthetic Brain Log
fruitflyworld.com
A terminal-styled archive of synthetic activity logs, recorded worlds, and an interactive schematic brain.
Get Beer Pong: The Physics of a Throw
getbeerpong.com
A physics-based beer pong game built around simulated arcs, rim-outs, bounce shots, and a small friends league.
The Grand Pricks Take the Cotswold Run
grandpricks.com
A sharply documented three-day convoy from Penistone to Broadway, complete with route maps, aftermovie footage, POV video, cars, pubs, and an excellent name.
HERBRAIN, the fly whose brain runs on trading fees
herbrain.world
An interactive simulation maps a female fruit fly's 139,248-neuron brain to token-trading activity.
Lintweevil: A Fruit-Fly Tab Bench
lintweevil.xyz
A local interactive interface turns pasted tab titles or URLs into a deterministic signal field and proposes one reversible keep, later, or dismiss action.
Ooceraea biroi
ooceraeabiroi.com
A scientific simulation gives an ant colony interface to a Drosophila neural graph, using odor-shaped inputs and documented ant-brain facts.
The Bureau That Ranks Burgers Like a Federal Agency
pattybureau.com
The Bureau of Patty Statistics publishes standardized hamburger rankings for establishments in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area.
Platonik, a civilization of algorithmic organisms
platonik.space
A game-in-design where players use AI to grow strange creatures, test their habits, and build toward a civilization among the stars.
Push Flappy Turns Push-Ups Into Flappy Bird
pushflappy.com
A free browser game uses your phone or webcam to make your torso the bird, steering it through pipes with push-up movements.
Rivet Imp: The Orbital Repair Club
rivetimp.xyz
A playable space-repair game about recovering scrap, patching a tug, and choosing what to risk on the next sortie.
RobinFly, With Receipts
robinfly.net
An open experiment that feeds market charts to a simulated fruit-fly connectome and records the resulting decisions.
Sandwich Fly: a fruit-fly brain in the mempool
sandwichfly.com
A playful simulation casts a 166,000-neuron fruit-fly model as a customer scanning fictional crypto transactions for MEV sandwiches.
Seventy-Eight Tarot
seventyeighttarot.com
A tarot app built around a single finite deck: every card drawn stays spent until the deck is shuffled again.
A Fly Colony With Its Own Wallets
swarm.family
SWARM presents an on-chain colony of simulated fruit-fly nervous systems, with each fly making trades through its own wallet.
Sky Piano: A Concert Above the Trees
tenku-piano.com
A Japanese mountain arts project gives children a three-day workshop before sending their music to a piano concert at 1,780 metres in the Yatsugatake range.
The Voicer Choicer: a neon studio for browser voice games
thevoicerchoicer.org
A free, no-download collection of 38 browser games spanning voice impressions, rhythm, mixing, singing, and instruments.
Major Void’s Six Small Games
majorvoid.com
A focused arcade of browser puzzles built around deduction, codebreaking, wordplay, logic, spatial planning, and word combat.
AEROCORTEX, the Bat Brain Atlas
aerocortex.top
An open research project proposing to map an echolocating bat brain synapse by synapse with electron microscopy and AI.
Brand My Duo: An Auction for the Surfaces of a Folding Phone
brandmyduo.bid
A live auction lets brands bid for logo space on the creator's iPhone Duo, from its cover screen and back to both sides of its charger.
BVLK.EXE, an archive with no walls
bvlk.network
A Bangkok-linked archive for techno and experimental-sound events, artists, broadcasts, and collective encounters.
CIONA Puts a Sea-Squirt Connectome Into the Memecoin Market
cionabrain.xyz
An interactive experiment uses a measured Ciona larva wiring diagram to drive simulated memecoin trades with $100 in virtual money.
Cosy Puzzles: A Shelf of Small Mysteries
cosypuzzles.com
An interactive puzzle archive where visitors pull game-books from a virtual shelf and open two presented experiences.
Lujain’s Shelf of Transformation Games
lujain.fun
A Bahrain-made collection of browser board games that turns workplace transformation programmes into snakes, ladders, traps, budgets, and boardroom drama.
Message to Mars, a Million-Tile Human Archive
messagetomars.com
A participatory digital archive lets people pay $10 to place a message of up to 140 characters on one of one million numbered Mars Tiles.
The MeUseum, a museum for famous cats
meuseum.org
An interactive catalog of internet-famous cats, historical legends, and record-breakers, organized through exhibits, a timeline, a world map, and search.
Monster Foundry: Risk in Greenvale
monsterfoundry-mmo.com
A browser-based pixel-art discovery game where each swipe gathers something new—or risks what you have already found.
Prana World, the restaurant where the plates look empty
prana-world.com
A Paraty restaurant presents invisible food, drinks, and intention as a slow, ritualized dining experience.
The Trading Fly, a paper trader with receipts
thetradingfly.xyz
An interactive experiment follows a fly-brain trader through strategy runs, paper-market decisions, account equity, and replayable receipts.
FlyRunner — Backyard Grand Prix
flyrunner.run
A browser-based fly-racing game set in a giant backyard, where you thread rings, race AI rivals, or roam freely.
ButterflyBrain, the shared insect memory
butterflybrain.xyz
An interactive simulation lets visitors feed or poke a shared larval learning circuit, leaving approach-or-avoidance traces for whoever visits next.
DRILLPOCKET — field console
drillpocket.xyz
An offline prospecting game where you scan a 64-cell underground grid, manage action points, and extract what you find.
Songless: The 0.1-Second Song Challenge
playsongless.com
A daily music guessing game that asks players to identify a song from a tenth of a second.
An App a Day's Digital Orchard
anappaday.fun
A public experiment to build and publish one tiny app every day for a year.
Circaspace: a live window onto one real place in nature
circaspace.net
Circaspace offers a live view of a natural setting, where visitors can watch light, weather, water, wind, and time move through the scene.
PLU Maxing Turns Produce Codes Into a One-Minute Sport
plumaxing.com
A free browser game where you type four-letter produce codes as quickly as possible for 60 seconds.
The Linux Penguin Robot Gets a Preservation Archive
tuxdrivers.site
TuxDrivers preserves the software, manuals, voices, images, videos, and history of TuxDroid, an interactive robotic Linux mascot.
40 Days of Mark
40daysofmark.com
A 40-day birthday project serving up one ridiculous picture of Mark per day.
WORM — a worm in the machine
ketisawake.com
An interactive terminal-style web creature that tunnels through memory, reports its mood, and answers when visitors type.
Last Ten: Party Brawl
lasttengames.com
A bilingual official site for a party-brawl game where five rivals compete across seven rounds and the highest total score wins.
Primary Violet Keeps Your Question Unspoken
primaryviolet.com
A private yes/no reflection that asks you to hold a question in mind, answer from your immediate feelings, and choose what kind of decision it resembles.
Tangle 9: The Daily Puzzle Where Every Word Fits Twice
tanglenine.com
A daily nine-word puzzle in which every answer must fit both a meaning row and a spelling column.
Terminal City, the city beneath Vancouver
terminalcity.music
A storybook-like fiction project imagines a parallel Vancouver that keeps the city’s music, art, and strange ideas moving.
Cheap Flying Car Insurance
cheapflyingcarinsurance.com
A newsletter promising future rate comparisons and plain-English guidance for insuring personal flying cars.
Mousebrain, Where the Mouse Is Right Now
mousebrain.online
An interactive neural simulation that presents a mouse connectome as a live computational experiment.
Rent My Bio Turns Social-Bio Space Into an Auction
rentmybio.lol
A marketplace where brands bid for temporary advertising space in people's Instagram or X bios.
One Dollar Ask Turns Generosity Into the Experiment
onedollarask.com
A personal internet experiment asks whether strangers will voluntarily send its creator $1, with no product, cause, or promised return.
Hai Jiao Community’s Slow City Portal
zh-haijiao.cloud
A Chinese-language city-life project organizing street observation, itineraries, diaries, hobbies, public-space notes, and image-led reading paths.
RecMyDays and the Human Continuum
homocontinum.net
A navigable concept for a private life-memory system spanning recall, context, relationships, telemetry, personal agents, legacy, and more.
An interactive fruit fly whose simulated taste circuit gets hungry, sleeps, reacts to prompts, and sometimes ignores you.
Across the archive
4,277 cards provide an early longitudinal view—not a measure of the whole web.
The rolling 21-day upper threads compare daily category medians; the bold thread is Weird Finds. Below, signal colour shows the share of that day’s published Weird Finds cards carrying each mark.
This exposes association inside the published catalogue, not causation or site quality. The 80+ threshold is the pipeline’s editorial-interest score.