notes on strange creatures found between tabs
A field guide to the habits, habitats and questionable survival strategies of the things we meet every day on the internet.
Construction marks remain visible by design. After the final line dries, the specimen begins tracking the observer.
The modern browser is a surprisingly rich ecosystem. Most organisms are harmless. Several are annoying. A few have learned to optimize for your attention.
These plates are alive. Each specimen has a different reflex; move across the illustration rather than just reading around it.
Volutus infinitum
Feeds indefinitely. Sleeps never.
Field observation: the tail is always one post farther away than expected.
— observer 01Badgia compulsiva
Feeds on unread badges.
Do not make eye contact with the red circle. It interprets attention as food.
— observer 01Machina obscura
Nobody has seen the whole creature.
Specimens disagree on its actual shape. Each observer appears to receive a different animal.
— observer 01Enter the blind and stop disturbing the habitat.
The journal stays on this device. No account, no cloud sync, no zoological mailing list.