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All The Fake Websites From Doctor Who Make Me Wish They Were Real

TV show websites are notoriously bad and comically unreal yet I can’t help but be charmed by their hilarious simplicity (and god awful horribleness). Can you imagine if there were giant flashing RED ALERT messages popping up at you? Or if hacking was as simple as just slapping the keys on the keyboard a few times? I want to exist in this world of fake websites.


Put The History Of Time In Context With A Click Of Your Mouse

There’s nothing to spice up your Monday like getting a feel for how insignificant of a speck you are in the grand scheme of the universe. Here Is Today does just that, but in such a pretty, minimalist way that you won’t even mind.


The Massive Digital Library Of The Future Just Opened Its ‘Doors’

After two and a half years of development, the Digital Public Library of America finally flipped the switch on and opened its website. Collecting items from institutions cross the country, there already more than two million items in its searchable database. And that’s just the beginning.


Why This Simple Government Website Was Named Best Design Of The Year

When was the last time you tried to find a government form on the internet? The labyrinth of independent sites you have to visit before finding what you’re looking for is amazing. Bringing the web presence of an entire government under one roof is a Sisyphean task, and the UK has done it with with Gov.uk, a one-stop web shop that launched earlier this year.


The Fake Websites Of Law & Order Are So Stupid I Wish They Were Real

Law & Order has never been a paragon of TV realism — just take a look at the websites it makes up as plot devices. Poor Ice-T has to browse a web that’s nothing but rape sites and murder porn.


A Children’s Treasury Of Reaction GIFs

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. By those calculations, an animated GIF must instead be worth hundreds of thousands.


All The Best Fake Websites TV Shows Have Dreamed Up

The internet is great and all, but the fake internet on TV is even better. This mashup from Slacktory takes you on a whirlwind tour of all the best (read: worst) sites that (probably) don’t and shouldn’t exist.


This Fantastic Website Shows How Far Mars Really Is From Earth

This ingenious website made by David Paliwoda shows how far Mars is from Earth in a metric all us internet lovers understand: pixels. If Earth was a 100 pixels wide, how far would Mars be? To start off, the moon would be 3000 pixels away (and 27 pixels wide). Mars?


Little Outliner: The Cleanest, Simplest Outliner Web App Around

Little Outliner is a new editor from Dave Winer that automatically saves text locally. The HTML5 web app is a simple, straightforward way to create outlines.


Rethinking Instagram (On The Web)

Surely, by now, we’ve all seen the latest addition to Instagram, the long-awaited website. What did you think of the turnout? Was it what you expected? To be perfectly honest, I had no idea what to expect. My hope was that they would create some sort of a nice grid layout. To my surprise, they did not. As a long-time interface designer, I wanted to test my skills and design the Instagram I wanted for myself.