Earth.nullschool.net, created by Cameron Beccario, is a beautiful and everchanging visualization of global weather conditions, ocean surface current estimates, ocean waves and surface temperatures, and aurora, forecast by NOAA supercomputers and updated regularly.
An open source "independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of." Who knows what you'll find?
A directory of 2000+ regularly updated blogs on a wide variety of subjects to amuse and entertain. Browse by topic or take a chance with the random blogs button!
Fall down the rabbit hole of this symbols encyclopedia and find "everything about symbols, signs, flags and glyphs arranged by categories such as culture, country, religion, and more."
"This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago."
A rich thesaurus that "lets you find any kind of word for any kind of writing." As with a traditional thesaurus, you can find synonyms and antonyms but are also able to search by description of the kind of word you need.
A fun history of food through time, from water and ice through Kool-Aid pickles.
Originally created and edited by Lynne Olver, now housed at Virginia Tech University Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.