Normally, I might scorn home pages that are
nothing but links. After all, a page should have more content on it
than just links to other people's content. But what page would be
complete without ideas for wasting enormous amount of time? So I
quickly threw together a collection of web sites that I've discovered can
keep you busy for hours.
...a
Cheap Version of Caitlin Land
Aside from the irritating background music, this site is
very cool. Coolness clearly runs in the family,
because Caitlin is my little sister (who is almost 13). It
has "Thought of the Day" (which is not actually
updated daily), a journal in which she rants, pictures of her
gorgeous self, and other random selections.
Homestar
Runner!
Eskel and Sibert say this site is the funniest one of
the...something! Seriously, folks... I laughed, I cried. Full of
interaction and cartoons saying funny things. Highly
recommended.
Paradigm
Pride
This is a shameless plug for my debate club's web
site. I lie. Not every site on this list of cool
sites is going be a fun waste of time... 'cause this one is just
beautiful (guess who designed it? ;) and it's about and for my
debate club. But it's mine and I wanted to upload it so there.
Go check it out just to humor me.
The
Mini-Mizer
Picture yourself in plastic. This site is just freaky
cool. You get to use lots of different styles and
looks and make Lego people. Check out this picture of Lego
Spiderman holding an apple jelly sandwich in a
cloister. Tell me that's not mad cool! It's way fun,
way entertaining, way a waste of time!
The
Brunching Shuttlecocks | The Ratings
Go read this man. He writes some of the most humorous literature
I have ever read in my entire life. I was hysterical
last night reading his bit on things
in a dollar store. HYSTERICAL. And today, when I
shared this link with Katie,
she said she choked laughing over his bit on Sundae
toppings. Go read it! (Warning: It really is not entirely
family friendly.)
Insaniquarium
In this game, you
must feed the little fishies so that they'll get bigger and will
poop out money. You collect the money, buy more supplies,
and collect even more money! Sounds fun? I know. It
really doesn't. But if you start playing it, you won't be
able to stop. It's quite a lovely way to waste time.
I
Am The Ruler Of The Free World
My dear friend, Katie,
has a lovely web site that she is maintaining while living in
Germany. She's as interesting and intelligent as I
am. It used to have a lot of things on it, but then the
Internet ate it. I can't get rid of the link though, because I
admire this girl too much. Makai
Media Spear Toss.
Thanks
be to Jared Light for this new, innovative way to waste my
time. This game is so easy and elementary that one cannot
help but throw that spear again and again in vain attempts to
surpass their high score (mine is 533.678).
3D
Pong
LiquidMedia
presents - Pong in 3D. Clever! And quite
addictive. Somehow, after every game, you are left
convinced that you can do better next time... all this to say,
I've wasted countless hours playing this game and you can too!
Animal-In-You
Personality Test
Every animal species use a unique blend of aggression, passivity, speed, agility, intelligence stealth, and skittishness to help it survive in a competitive word. Through a process known as
parallel evolution, nature ensures that we humans also exhibit a set of various characteristics that corresponds to a particular animal species. So what animal are you? Short survey, fun
results.
The
Duct Tape Guys
There's nothing you can't do with duct tape. Disagree? Try to
stump the Duct Tape Guys. Or just look at amazing duct tape
fashions.
Duct
Tape Fashion
A fellow duct taper, Keith Drone, specializes in duct tape apparel.
From wallets to visors to guitar straps...with enough support, he'll have
a full department store full of duct tape fashions.
Rinkworks
Bored? This web site can occupy you for hours. They've got a
nice selection of rants, jokes, and best of all, games that are perfect
for wasting time.
LemonadeGame.com
Setup an online lemonade stand and see how much lemonade you can sell. Based on the weather
forecast for each day, you decide how much to charge per cup and how much inventory to buy...I
killed nearly half an hour playing this game. :)
Death Clock
The Internet's friendly reminded that life is slipping away... second by
second. Plug in some of your data and watch your time slip by.
Strangely addicting.
Phone Spell
Haven't you just always wondered what your phone numbered spelled out?
While it's certainly more time consuming to figure it out the
old-fashioned way, this is fun too.
Darwin Awards
True stories about stupid things people did that got themselves killed.
Forward Garden
An archive of 103,448 forwards that you can read and, by doing so, waste an
enormous amount of time. Somehow, it is more appealing to read email
forwards when they are not forwarded to you. Weird. Also, when I
first added this site to my web page, it had only 3,886 forwards.
My, how expansive it has been.
News of the Weird
Proof that true stories are stranger than made-up ones. News of the
Weird is the longest-running, most widely-read bizarre-but-all-true news
feature in the United States.
20 Questions
Play 20 Questions with the computer. Pick an object, and watch the
A.I. try to guess. I played for at least an hour.
The Straight Dope
Find out true answers to many of life's most interesting questions.
Cecil Adams (the writer of the columns) answers these questions for a
living, so you know he does an A+ job of getting the fact straight.
The Sanity Test
Complete a semi-lengthy questionnaire and find out your level of insanity. (Now
back for the whole world to see!) (...I think it had always "been
back" but I just had missed the memo about the changing web host. Oh
well.) ...and I'm now noticing it's different and not at all as cool as it
once was. Again: Oh well. |