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Procrastination Station

A carefully curated collection of completely pointless stuff. Zero productivity guaranteed.

Start wasting time ↓ Back to work
productivity.exe
has been terminated.Good choice.

Psst: press all three.

Games

Daily puzzles that are the same for everyone, plus a few arcade games for when you should really be working.

RewindDaily · timeline · Five nerdy moments. Put them in order. Logic LabDaily · logic · Flip the switches, light the right bulbs. DefragDaily · organise · Tidy the scattered files on a 90s hard disk. PhosphorDaily · colour · Mix red, green and blue light to match the colour. TerraformArcade · territory · Fence off a planet, one line at a time. Carrier WaveArcade · scroller · Ride the signal through the static. Nerd WordDaily · words · Guess the day’s nerdy five-letter word. Load BalancerArcade · sysadmin · Route the web traffic before a server melts. OverloadArcade · sysadmin · Watch the CPU. Kill the runaway processes. Atomic LizardArcade · monster movie · Stomp a cardboard city in glorious black and white. Bounce PainterArcade · bat and ball · Bounce the ball to paint a mystery picture. Sheep JumpArcade · jumper · Bounce a sheep up to the stars. CaterpillarArcade · garden · Munch leaves, grow up, become a butterfly.

Desk Pals

Tiny pixel friends with big opinions. They walk along the page, hop between things, say funny things about what they find, and you can pick them up.

Schrödinger, a pixel-art Desk Pal
Schrödinger
Zen Master Flash, a pixel-art Desk Pal
Zen Master Flash
Professor Footnote, a pixel-art Desk Pal
Professor Footnote
Cher Ware, a pixel-art Desk Pal
Cher Ware
Lambda, a pixel-art Desk Pal
Lambda
Agatha Crispie, a pixel-art Desk Pal
Agatha Crispie
Kale-El, a pixel-art Desk Pal
Kale-El

Meet the Desk Pals →

Screensavers

Retro screensavers that run right in your browser. Click one to start it; press Esc or click to stop.

StarfieldFly through a 3D field of stars, right in your browser. Digital RainFalling green code on a CRT-style screen, straight out of 1999. Paddle BallThe 1972 arcade classic plays itself. Or grab a paddle: W/S and P/L. SynthwaveA neon 80s sunset over a rolling grid, ready for your big screen. MystifyBouncing lines trailing colourful echoes, the classic desktop screensaver. Nixie ClockGlowing orange nixie tubes tell the time, with a slot-machine spin every minute. Let There Be LightMaxwell's equations written in chalk, and then there was light. Make it start by itself Open any screensaver and tick Start after 5 idle minutes. It comes on when you step away, and it's off unless you turn it on.