The Internet Is Beautiful

Solo project I've been building this month, wanted to share here. The rules:

You get $10,000 and two secret years of real S&P 500 history, drawn from 1928 to 2019 (daily data, dividends included; your cash earns T-bill rates while you hide). One button: BUY or SELL. Your opponent is a couch. It buys at the start and never moves.

Every finished game is audited by 1,000 monkeys. It's a permutation test 1,000 replays with your same time in the market and same number of trades, on random days. Beat 90% of the monkeys and your win is stamped TIMED THE MARKET. Anything less is stamped LUCKY, in red ink, on your settlement document.

About 84,000 games have been played so far. The couch has won 63% of them. Roughly 1 game in 9 ends in a win that survives the monkey audit.

There's also a daily hand, same secret window for everyone, streaks, and a public ledger of humanity vs the couch.

If you have time, I'd love feedback, and I will answer any methodology questions, thanks!

Invidious link: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=vo5glK9czIE

draw.io is an interactive flow chart webpage so simple even someone stupid can use it

YouTube videos mixed with regional music curated to feel like you travel in cities around the world

I have spent much of the last two years updating my website to include artwork and scans from the original magazine/newspaper/anthology the stories were originally published in. I am still working on making reading on the website the most enjoyable experience it can be.

As always, any suggestions for authors and stories, as well as features for the website are appreciated.

Hope you can enjoy the stories as much as I do, Evan.

It's a long dead project, but still a beautiful site

Who would have thought that an eerie and creepy 3D chatroom game from the 90s, Worlds Chat, would still be somewhat active? We are so lucky that we can find out more about all of its internet mysteries from the past! Thus, let's explore it, and see if we can unearth anything about its famous urban legends!

From Tom Scott's newsletter. The associated blog post: https://kendraalbert.com/2025/07/21/lawyer-letters-without-lawyers.html

Its r/place but with text.

drawducks.com you can go there and draw a little duck and then let it waddle around in a global pool full of other users ducks. Oh and you can click the duck and make it go Quack!

Also, very important, if you click a duck to make it go Quack, surrounding ducks will quack back, and I just think that's neat.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/30377150

Not a rant. Not nostalgia. Just a quiet piece that made me feel something. It doesn’t try to fix anything, it just notices what’s missing. This article made the silence feel honest.

"The Landsat series of satellites has been observing Earth for over 50 years, collecting breathtaking imagery and invaluable data used to study our planet’s changing surface.

With a new online interactive, users can type in their name, then view and export the graphic of that name spelled out in Earth features found in Landsat images."

Find new ways to tease yourr friends

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2691534

Somebody built a chatGPT powerded calculator as a joke

https://github.com/Calvin-LL/CalcGPT.io

TODO: Add blockchain into this somehow to make it more stupid.

free bionic reading script (english, requires tampermonkey, as other plugins need manual enabling)

I wanted to create something to scroll through on the train that was a bit more wholesome than social media, so I created an online library with all of the classic short stories for quick reading. Hoping other people find it useful too.