Time-Wasting Web Sites — Fall 2007

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• The Periodic Table of the Internet.
     http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-06-23--periodic-table-of-the-internet.html

• A Muppet cake.
     http://www.flickr.com/photos/withoutform/sets/72157601654815836/detail/

• Skills every man should know.
     http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/upgrade/4223337.html?page=1

• The best commercials of the 1980s.
     http://www.giantmag.com/2006/12/tv/the-50-greatest-commercials-of-the-80s/

• Get your cereal fix.
     http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/examples/cereals/cereal-characters.html

• Flaming bag of poo.
     http://minibytes.mondominishows.com/poo/affiliates/play.asp?Affil=iwon&W

• Remember to feed your fish.
     http://www.microprizes.com/wingf.htm

• One great game site — really.
     http://www.kongregate.com/featured_games

• Make your own Magic Eye picture.
     http://www.flash-gear.com/stereo/

• Choose your candidate by their logos.
     http://logovoting.com/

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• You think you had a bad day.
     http://gorillamask.net/badday.shtml

• Lego Indiana Jones.
     http://www.truedimensions.com/timesage/rescue.htm

• Learn how to type, fool.
     http://poorhamster.ytmd.com/

• Make a site a icanhascheezburger site.
     http://lolinator.com/

• Fly a helicopter.
     http://www.hurtwood.demon.co.uk/Fun/copter.swf

• See anonymous edits to Wikipedia in real time. Click on “diff.” and lose faith in humanity.
     http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html

• Brady Bunch meets calendar.
     http://www.humancalendar.com

• Need a slogan? I’ve got your slogan right here.
     http://www.sloganizer.net/en/

• Tiny plaid ninjas.
     http://www.spinnerdisc.com/TPN.html

• Strange signs.
     http://eightsolid.com/24-very-strange-funny-signs/

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• I don’t know Japanese either. Just click around.
     http://www.nekogames.jp/

• Click on his behind — really.
     http://www.1-click.jp/

• Play Bloons Tower Defense 2.
     http://www.ninjakiwi.com/

• Made-up news.
     http://www.brokennewz.com/

• Funny health stuff, I think.
     http://www.healthbolt.net/

• Watch cheese age.
     http://www.cheddarvision.tv/

• You have to sign up, but you get music.
     http://soundpedia.com/

• Places to go on Google Earth.
     http://earth.google.com/intl/en/tour/thanks-win-updater.html

• Penny postcards from different states/commonwealthes.
     http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/special/ppcs/ppcs.html

• Cats saying dumb things.
     http://icanhascheezburger.com/

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• The news explained by Uncle Jay.
     http://www.unclejayexplains.com/

• See the icon? This is pretty much it.
     http://www.guimp.com/

• Consumers of the world unite!
     http://consumerist.com/consumer/confessions/

• “Pointless” quotation marks.
     http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/

• A collection of cool old pictures.
     http://www.old-picture.com/

• A strangely addicting game.
     http://www.k2xl.com/games/boomshine/

• “Chocolate Rain” sung by Chad Vader, night manager.
     http://youtube.com/watch?v=P6dUCOS1bM0

• This is not a waste of time — recalls.
     http://www.recalls.gov/

• The history of the Simpsons.
     http://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/09/the-birth-of-the-simpsons/

• Extreme hangman.
     http://www.armorgames.com/games/hangmanextreme.html

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• Feed the Head has been modified. Check it out.
     http://www.feedthehead.net/

• A damn interesting Web site.
     http://www.damninteresting.com/

• Chill.
     http://www.mezzowave.net/indexfl.htm

• Some interesting Web sites.
     http://www.militantplatypus.com/blog/

• Find some demographic information based on ZIP code.
     http://zipskinny.com/

• Current meta-list of what’s on the Web.
     http://www.jimmyr.com/

• Bacon!
     http://www.baconunwrapped.com/

• Cool old neon signs.
     http://www.roadsidepeek.com/

• Simulators of Disney attractions.
     http://sims.themagical.nl/

• It’s del.icio.us, baby.
     http://del.icio.us/

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• Japanese pop culture.
     http://www.dannychoo.com.nyud.net/

• Cool movie news.
     http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/

• Learn how to draw.
     http://www.drawingcoach.com/

• Yet another addicting game.
     http://www.shockwave.com/content/shuffle/sis/shuffle.swf

• Fun commercials about our city to the south — Louisville.
     http://www.sharelouisville.org/

• Learn how to do stuff from mad scientists.
     http://www.evilmadscientist.com/

• Find out the real name of just about any celebrity, including Natalie Portman.
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stage_names

• Cool stuff you may remember from your childhood.
     http://www.retrojunk.com/

• Try factory balls.
     http://home.scarlet.be/~bbonte/index_en.html

• Funny, non-mainstream comic.
     http://seemikedraw.wordpress.com/

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• Bite-sized humor.
     http://gigglesugar.com/

• Look what the cat dragged in.
     http://www.whatjeffkilled.com/index.html

• Old horror movie trailers.
     http://www.trailersfromhell.com/

• What have you done with your life?
     http://www.museumofconceptualart.com/accomplished/

• Completely pointless Web sites.
     http://www.pointlesssites.com/

• Nerdy stuff.
     http://nerdapproved.com/

• We’ve probably had this site before, but we like it — helmets.
     http://www.helmethut.com/

• A funny flash cartoon.
     http://www.grovanostra.com/

• Dude plays with electricity.
     http://www.drmegavolt.com/

• Comic book covers. Neat!
     http://www.coverbrowser.com/

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• The ultimate Star Wars Action Figures collection.
     http://www.joshuabudich.com/SWCollection/

• Really fancy toilets.
     http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/Toilets_from_Around_World_226_2007.php

• Time-wasting games. Duh.
     http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/

• Courses you wish your university offered.
     http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8466

• The perfect moment captured perfectly.
     http://www.top10kid.com/?p=27

• Time-wasting Web sites — what a novel idea.
     http://www.ejb.com/

• Awesome incorrect answers you wish you came up with.
     http://www.h2limousine.com/test-answers.php

• You’ve seen them before, but here they are again — bad album covers.
     http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/index.htm

• Stuff you just didn’t know.
     http://discovermagazine.com/columns/20-things-you-didnt-know

• A collection of some guy’s receipts.
     http://toddbarry.com/receipts.html

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• Good-looking women with jerks.
     http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/

• Which came first?
     http://chicken-egg.redirectme.net/index.php

• Singing national landmarks.
     http://www.parachutingtrees.co.uk/rushmore.htm

• Dirty ways to waste time. Probably NSFW.
     http://www.magamba.com/

• Movie mistakes, plain and simple.
     http://www.moviemistakes.com/

• Nerdy ways to waste time.
     http://www.danerd.com/

• People hurting themselves.
     http://www.break.com/

• Internet People? Internet People!
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pPCkhYMQgY

• Subscribe to this YouTube channel for creative cartoons.
     http://www.youtube.com/user/ChannelFrederator

• What we wish we would have learned in school.
     http://www.pandasmash.com/sub.php?page=shows&show_id=13

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• A classic — LEROY JENKINS!
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCNJRfSZBU

• Top 10 Sports Annoucer Bloopers. Another set of classics.
     http://www.uber.com/mypage/?entity_id=243641603&blog_id=1

• Can you have a classic in such a new medium? Yes.
     http://www.homestarrunner.com/

• Mentos and Diet Coke, classic.
     http://www.eepybird.com/

• If you seen these before, you are an Internet Person.
     http://www.allyourbasearebelongtous.com/

• Flush stuff.
     http://www.josplumbing.com/

• Foam costumes.
     http://www.marylen.com/pot3.htm

• Parental guidance suggested.
     http://www.itsherholes.com/

• Geographically see where photos on Flickr are coming from.
     http://flickrvision.com/

• Unique T-shirts — submit some of your own ideas.
     http://www.threadless.com/?streetteam=Kelly+Kay

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• Memorable Sesame Street moments.
     http://www.uber.com/sesame

• This guy creeps me out.
     http://mrpregnant.com/

• You should say no to crack.
     http://www.saynotocrack.com/

• Some sort of unique stuff.
     http://www.uniquedaily.com/

• PSA: See where the candidates stand on many issues.
     http://www.2decide.com/table.htm

• Tetris, with states. Not for the geographically challanged.
     http://www.mapmsg.com/games/statetris/usa/

• Apparently, unicorns were mentioned in the King James Version of the Bible.
     http://www.unicornmuseum.org/

• The world will go on without us.
     http://www.worldwithoutus.com/did_you_know.html

• I don’t understand this game at all.
     http://jayisgames.com/archives/2007/08/gimme_friction_baby.php

• Homemade Star Wars movies.
     http://www.atomfilms.com/2007/starwars/challenge/index.jsp

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• Mostly painful videos.
     http://pandachute.com/

• Ah, heck, more of the same.
     http://www.frikid.com/index.php

• Because everyone deserves love.
     http://www.iclicku.com/

• Kind of a Japanese YouTube.
     http://www.japanprobe.com/

• Screamin’ beans.
     http://www.simonpanrucker.com/beans.html

• Everything Harry Potter.
     http://www.hp-lexicon.org/index-2.html

• PSA: When you need to talk to a human.
     http://www.dialahuman.com/

• Daily video fun.
     http://www.ezprezzo.com/

• I’m not sure I get it either.
     http://www.fromkeetra.com/

• Stick people Web comic.
     http://xkcd.org/

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• Mess with your eyes.
     http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html

• Some great, funny videos.
     http://www.funnyordie.com/

• Makes me want to sing about a white rabbit.
     http://www.feedthehead.net/

• Yeah, toast!
     http://theimaginaryworld.com/page3.html

• The picture always looks better.
     http://www.thewvsr.com/adsvsreality.htm

• Penguins rock — hard!
     http://www.brajeshwar.com/documents/penguin/

• Outrageous T-shirts.
     http://www.truffleshuffle.co.uk/store/index.php

• Harry Potter’s future.
     http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=23234

• I can relate to this.
     http://www.beingfive.blogspot.com/

• Hand-picked videos.
     http://www.brohans.com/


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