wikipedia

Tell it how long your commute is and it builds a Wikipedia rabbit hole sized to fit. One continuous scroll instead of twenty tabs you’ll abandon at your stop. There’s a “Surprise Me” mode and fifteen languages, and it cites its CC BY-SA source like a good citizen. Whether the chain actually reads as one story or just vaguely adjacent topics is the part I haven’t tested, but time-boxing the spiral instead of fighting it is a neat inversion.

Reid Lewis has built a 3D city out of the 100,000 most-viewed Wikipedia articles from the past year: every building an article, every floor a pageview count. It’s inspired by Samuel Rizzo’s GitCity, which does the same trick for repositories. You can click buildings to open the article, or—naturally—fly around in a little plane and blow them up.