How To Waste Time on the Internet

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?