My new tab page on Chrome tries to make me think before jumping into the fun, distracting, confusing web.
It looks like this (with Droid Sans installed):
The page, which you should save on your machine, is just a single image, a tiny CSS file, and an HTML file. It's somewhat responsive. It could probably look nicer.
Hey, wait a minute, you say. Chrome won't let me set a different file or URL as my "New Tab Page"!
But Chrome does let extensions set a specific New Tab Page. I use New Tab Redirect; there are others with more or fewer features. Head into the Options of such an extension (usually loaded after first installing), then set your New Tab Page to the wayhtd.html file inside the \wayhtd directory.
Thanks to @cburyta for help with the CSS trickery.