Happy Thursday! 

Is it just me or are you also exhausted this week? The news is bad, the vibes are low, and everything feels like a bit too much.

Today, I offer you respite from the horrors of your algorithms. I’ve rounded up a few websites that you can visit just for fun. Sometimes it’s nice to return to the bygone days of web surfing where you’d happen upon a silly site and get sucked into it for a few hours. 

If you’re really itching to learn new things that make you want to destroy your electronics and go off-grid, fear not. There’s a few links in Yap Sesh that will make you think, “Oh no.” (There are a few links that will also make you go, “Oh yes!”)

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Radio Garden allows you to drop into live radio stations around the world. This is a really fun way to discover new music. They have a cool “Balloon Ride” feature that will drop you in a random location and you can guess where you are based on what’s playing on the radio. It’s a bit like Geoguessr, except there’s no gameplay.

The site also has curated playlists of radio stations that play eclectic, interesting, or underdiscovered genres. There’s one called Rare Tongues, which shares stations that broadcast in lesser-known and endangered languages. Another is called Fringe City, focused on stations that spin experimental tunes.

I’d like to think this is a good kind of voyeurism. Is it voyeurism if you’re looking out of someone’s window and not inside it?

In any case, Window Swap simply lets you see different window views from around the world. It reminds me of an era of the internet where people were so fascinated and connected by the idea that we could learn about different parts of the world simply by finding the global community online. Now, we are perhaps too connected to everyone and everything, but quiet corners like this are a delightful way to get a taste of different locales. 

Listen, sometimes you have to go back to the classics. I love reading the missed connections tab on Craigslist. There are some freaks on there for sure, but you gotta love the real yearners that send Hail Marys into the universe. You never know if you’ll end up like Colman Domingo and his husband! There are a surprising amount of posts coming from around my neighborhood, so I also view it as a peek into the desires of those around me.

If you ever miss the feeling of channel surfing, My Retro TVs can recreate that experience for you. Compiling TV clips from the 1950s to the 2000s, the website has a section for whatever retro decade you prefer. You can use the remote to flip through channels, which include old news, musical performances, cartoons, commercials, and more. 

Every so often, I like to take a look through Itch.io to hunt for some fun, cozy browser games. They have games to download too, but I don’t have the storage for it. Plus, playing in-browser takes me back to the flash game websites I used to visit when I was a kid in the 2000s. I recommend Six Cats Under, in which you play a recently deceased elderly cat woman that has to use her ghostly powers to free her kitties from her home.

If you really want to get old school, let’s take it back to The Wiki Game. If you’re the type of person to fall down a Wikipedia rabbit hole, I’m sure you’re already familiar with this game. In case you haven’t heard of it, the objective is to get from one random Wikipedia page to another in as few clicks as possible. Just a fun way to challenge your brain and make connections between things that you wouldn’t expect. 

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