How To Waste Time on the Internet

>> 22 November 2008

The internet is FILLED with How-To's and most of them have this thing in common: you'll read the article and then never do the thing it purportedly taught you how to do!  In recent days I have read articles on wikihow about subjects as diverse as, how to make flan, how to make a coin appear to go through your head and out your mouth, and how to ride a unicycle.  But what will I do with this new-found knowledge?  Nothing.


And that's the problem with most how-to articles.  Which is why I have come up with one that is guaranteed to work!  HOW TO WASTE TIME ON THE INTERNET!  The following websites will make you waste your life away.
  • http://news.google.com/  This news aggrigator is constanly updated with things that you don't really need to know.
  • http://achewood.com/  This website, along with webcomics in general can guarantee that you laugh your way out of a hard day's work
  • http://www.hulu.com/  Watch TV for free!  TV on the internet = DOUBLE TROUBLE!
  • Landgrab.net  This is basically Risk for free online.  Play against strangers or invite your friends to slack off with you!
  • http://www.flashphysicsgames.com/  These games about rolling balls and swinging pendulums are embarassingly addictive.
  • Hattrick.org  In this free online game, you manage a soccer team in a league where you compete with other human-controlled teams.  You don't actually play - you just oversee the training, tactics, signings, etc. (warning: high soccer nerd factor)
  • http://www.powerchallenge.com/  Free online soccer where, unlike hattrick (see above), you actually play against other people.
  • http://www.wikipedia.org/  This place is a blackhole...budget at least one hour for each visit because you will click on and read the linked articles.
  • Google Reader  Subscribe to e-blogs of interest and read them all in one place as soon as they're updated!
  • Facebook  Face it (pun!), the novelty has worn off a little, but I still waste plenty of time when I start looking at someone's new photo-album before I realize that it has 150 pictures!
  • This e-blog WHOA!  SELF-REFERENTIAL META-BLOGGING.  THIS IS GETTING DEEP!
So there you have it: a bunch of new ways to waste time on the internet and a how-to guide that you might actually use!

I know I must have missed a lot of internet black-holes.  What are you favorite time wasters?

2 comments:

Tim November 24, 2008 at 4:55 PM  

LandGrab!

Also, I like reading the political category on CougarBoard.com (a sports board, in theory, but so much more than just sports). As one of the biggest Mormon social communities on the web, CougarBoard has a unique way of bringing all the loony uber-right-wing extremists into one central web site. Reading their posts can be EXTREMELY entertaining!

Tim

miriam November 24, 2008 at 9:44 PM  

pandora radio, msn-especially the message boards, Friends blogs such as this hilarious one

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