Sometimes you want to take a break and read some fun stuff.

There used to be a lot more easily found sites and blogs that were just people being goofy or sharing information.

Want a pictoral deep dive of the incredibly stressful high stakes experience of surgically seperating conjoined peeps, down to tiny surgical hair nets for the peeps? Yeah.

Want someone who empties toothpaste tubes to see how many feet of toothpaste is in each tube? Sure.

Want a "scientific study" where a guy infects himself with athlete's foot? Once upon a time I would have been able to serve that up.

There's still fun stuff out there but it can be harder to find, especially as it's often fleetingly hosted on social media like Bluesky and Tumblr.

• Vintage Unscripted is a blog by several vintage dealers about vintage collectables, history, recipes, and general stuff they think is cool.
• Stumbling On, inspired by Stumble Upon. Displays random, hopefully fun or interesting, websites.
• Floor796, a sprawling piece of art capturing life on one floor of a space station. Scroll around and look for easter eggs.
• Inspirobot, an "AI" that generates motivational/inspirational text and images. (it is not actually ai)
• Bored Button, random collections of interactive websites.
• 17776 Football a far-future exploration of life and sports.
• The Useless Web, some websites that don't have any actual use other than odd entertainment.
• Cloud Hiker randomly serves up interesting, esoteric websites.
• Archive of Our Own, or AO3, is the largest fanfiction archive. Fan funded and fan run.
• Mental Floss, an old-time infotainment timewaster of a site, is still going strong.
• Atlas Obscura is a love letter to weird places (and food), an encouragement to get out and explore.
• The Art of Jacob Rozalski is great and you've probably seen it - the little girl pointing out the cowering soldier as the monster looms? That's him.
• Pixel Dolls, a shrine to pixel dolls with some games/makers and some ready-made dolls.
• Laughing Squid is "a daily dose of unique and curious things," an old-school site serving up fun and interesting stories you might not stumble across on your own.
• Sticky Notes, a short-and-sweet message board with a sticky note bulletin board theme.
• Lileks.com has been going strong for about thirty years now, has collections of images and information about matchbooks, engravings on money/stocks, interior decor of the 1960s and 1970s, and more "cultural detritus."
• The Stinky Meat Project was a guy who tossed a bunch of meat into his neighbor's yard and documented it as it decomposed. Twice.
• The Fat Project was an experiment where two people were challenged to gain 30 pounds in 30 days. Spoiler: they almost did, and they lost it immediately.
• Build your own Chicago with papercraft! Many are free and the paid ones aren't that expensive.
• The Straight Dope doesn't seem to be updating any more but there's still an archive of great questions and humorous answers.
• Erowid is one of the oldest (THE oldest?) websites about psychoactive substances and humans.
• Stereogum, "the world's best music blog," was founded in 2002 and is independently owned and operated.
• America's Finest News Source, the Onion, is available online (and in print via delivery) for all your satire needs. Tim Onion, the new owner, is doing a pretty good job.
• Ars Technica has news, reviews, and analysis of technology. They're another long-running site.