Web Wanderings #21
Rediscover the joy of online exploration! Web Wandering shares a hand-picked selection of the most awesome websites you won't find anywhere else.
The spring is in full charge, summer is coming! Brace yourselves! Prepare your short trousers, the climate control or ventilation. Prepare to stroll through the internet in your cold home, with an ice cold beer, or margarita, or lemon ice tea. Explore the cool sides of the net while the others are fighting for the best place on the beach, have to soak their bodies in protective sunscreen, and sweat like hell.
Funny, I always remember that gamer saying: summer? great time to play in my sweat shorts. 😁
Anyway, here’s another reason to stay inside for a while (or.. yeah… scroll through on your phone while in the park): Web Wanderings Edition #21!
I had a lot of fun writing this episode, hope you like it too.
This edition is also available on Cloudhiker as a Collection so you can find, like and collect the sites of this Edition: Web Wanderings #21
Poop Fiction
Haha, he said poop! 💩
Take your phone, tabled or whatever, your whole PC, to the bathroom the next time Obama should enter the White House. Forget Insta and Tik Tok.
This is just for you, in time of need. For when the brown submarine takes another dive, when the porcelain office is accepting walk-ins, when the sausage wizard is casting a spell.
These are stories for your ceramic throne.
You Say Potato – I Say Fuck you
https://yousaypotatoisayfuckyou.com
Hehe, I wonder what’s going on in your mind right now after reading that headline. Could be anything. And you really don’t know what’s waiting behind that link, don’t you?
Just out of pure joy, you don’t get a screenshot this time. 🤓
Kult CDs
I have a CD collection in the basement. A collection of Computer Bild Spiele CDs, which is a gaming magazine here in Germany, maybe the most popular ones. Their CDs, and later DVDs, were packed with random small games, mostly shit but funny, and from time to time a mainstream game like Tomb Raider, Oddworld or Need for Speed.
I dive deeeeep into nostalgia when opening this website, which collects hundreds, if not thousands, of those CD covers. Love it!
Ether Sent
https://ethersent.neocities.org
Welcome to the weird side of the internet. (By the way, the internet is not dead, like many proclaim in the wake of AI.)
This website has a landing page with a warning. For the better. Enter if you like the art of that landing page. If not, enter anyway. Nothing beats curiosity. 💀
Nuclear Reactor Simulator
https://dalton-nrs.manchester.ac.uk
This is a weird topic switch, but I loved playing the STALKER video game when I was younger. It’s set in the restricted zone of Chernobyl, that Chernobyl where a nuclear reactor exploded and contaminated half of Europe. Since then, I have a curious interest in how those reactors work. And this very website lets you play with one.
Go on. I know you want to make it pop!
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Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise
https://pudding.cool/2026/05/similes
Another really great project by Pudding. Some of you might remember when the Pudding was first featured on Web Wanderings. I could fill entire editions with their cool stuff. Yet I want to share their recent project about literature: They analyzed popular fiction for comparisons (as __ as __) and looked on the data they found. I’m sure you will be surprised by these results and if you write more often you will find great inspiration here.
Chocolate Alchemy
For those lost souls searching for a new hobby, after their racing bike got stolen, all the plants died, and your knees are laughing when they hear marathon: how about making chocolate?! 🍫
My uncle used to make chocolate and sold it. I DARE you to try such a chocolate at least once. It’s far from that shit you buy at Wallmart. Chocolate that basically only consists of pure cacao and a bit of coconut sugar.
And it’s not even that hard to make it on your own, at home. At least easier than making candles. Have you ever entered a home after the owner made candles? Word of advice: don’t.
One Square Minesweeper
https://onesquareminesweeper.com
Sorry. I know this is so stupidly useless, it’s almost not funny anymore. Yet this is what I love about the internet. Nowhere else you can find such random, weird stuff.
Condiment Packet Archive
https://www.condimentpacket.com
The Condiment Packet Archive is a meticulously curated repository devoted to the study, preservation, and quiet glorification of single-serving culinary adjuncts: those small, sealed vessels of ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, hot sauce, and other flavor-bearing substances that accompany meals, modify taste, and prove that even the humblest disposable packet can aspire to archival significance.
Workspaces
Let’s end this episode with some inspirational, some design ideas for your desk, your workplace. I always love to see how others prepare, arrange and organize their places of creativity and thought. Maybe you too will find some small thing that immediately pops with you, that you like so much that you buy it right for your space.
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