sunshine6 Posted January 19, 2009 Posted January 19, 2009 To stop my eternal addiction to this board, I offer some websites I frequent to kill time. What are yours? (in other words, give me some suggestions, I'm bored with mine) cute overload- http://www.cuteoverload.com/ post secret: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ random gaming site: http://www.escapegames24.com/ Serious Eats food blog: http://www.seriouseats.com/ Gossipy news, and other Gawker affiliates: http://jezebel.com/
ec86 Posted January 19, 2009 Posted January 19, 2009 http://utopia.swirve.com/index.php I played this game in high school and then again for a summer after graduating undergrad. haha, good times, I ruled my kingdom like a true tyrant.
purplepepper Posted January 19, 2009 Posted January 19, 2009 im a bit embarrassed to say, but i like wasting time playing neopets www.neopets.com
ridgey Posted January 19, 2009 Posted January 19, 2009 These are probably kids games, but I love them, especially the first. From a website that tries to educate people abour social justice, etc. Keep a Haitian family alive http://www.tigweb.org/tiged/projects/ayiti/game.html Organise successful elections in the Ukraine http://www.tigweb.org/games/orange/
Tritonetelephone Posted January 19, 2009 Posted January 19, 2009 And old favorite of mine: live webcams at the National Zoo... http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/WebCams/
anythingtwice Posted January 19, 2009 Posted January 19, 2009 I read a ton of blogs and comics, so here are some of my favourites: More cute baby animals! http://www.zooborns.com Like Ellen's Bad Paid-For Photos. Bahaha. http://www.sexypeople-blog.com/ And in that same vein... http://www.laserportraits.net/ Bad paid-for cakes: http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com Dinosaur Comics! - http://www.qwantz.com/ The only fashion blog I read: http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com Index card charts about life: http://indexed.blogspot.com/ A variety of neat stuff - http://www.neatorama.com Anyone with roommates can relate - http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com FOOD! http://tastespotting.com FAIL! http://failblog.wordpress.com MATH! http://xkcd.com
jesso21 Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 Like anythingtwice, I love webcomics and blogs so I second the Dino Comics, Go Fug Yourself, and xkcd. I also read-- Webcomics--Natalie Dee/Toothpaste for Dinner/Married to the Sea/Superpoop (links to the other ones at top of the page): http://www.nataliedee.com/ LOLcats-- I can has cheezburger: http://icanhascheezburger.com/ Shakespeare timewaster--Hamlet - Text Adventure: http://versificator.co.uk/hamlet/
frankdux Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 the best online game ever http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bells.htm my high score: 3,072,580 a good runner up: http://www.addictinggames.com/bloxors.html i've finished this twice. great game.
Tritonetelephone Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bells.htm http://www.addictinggames.com/bloxors.html Those were fun! Here's some more of my old favorites... Ball Droppings! Worth the small download. " Balls fall from the top of the screen and bounce off the lines you are drawing with the mouse. The balls make a percussive and melodic sound, whose pitch depends on how fast the ball is moving when it hits the line." You can get some really interesting rhythms going... http://www.balldroppings.com/ Weird Japanese flash game, Nanaca Crash: http://nanaca.narr.as/ The Ambition series (negotiation flash games by a psych student): http://zapdramatic.com/dramas.htm
Astaroth Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 I LOVE Nanaca Crash! Such a bizarre game. I kind of hit a wall with it though so I stopped playing. Here's my high score:
waisee Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 Happy inauguration day everyone! Something for the occasion: http://www.killerspoons.com/spoon144.html Something close to everyone's hearts: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=967 Some dark humor: http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF129-Colonel_Sweeto.jpg And something for the classics: http://xkcd.com/162/
ohheygradschool Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 I have no idea why, but www.ytmnd.com cracks me up, even if the links aren't all that funny. I can spend hours on there. http://merryfelonies.ytmnd.com/
convex Posted January 28, 2009 Posted January 28, 2009 I waste all my time here: http://www.regator.com/
Tonights Posted January 28, 2009 Posted January 28, 2009 http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pandemic-2.html Pandemic II, the game of creating your own disease and wiping out mankind. It's awesome.
ec86 Posted January 28, 2009 Posted January 28, 2009 I hate Pandemic 2... someone sneezes in Brazil and Madagascar shuts down its ports IMMEDIATELY.
Tonights Posted January 28, 2009 Posted January 28, 2009 I KNOW! Madagascar is totally the Holy Grail of Pandemic 2. I like to keep my disease free of actual symptoms until I have some good coverage going on.
deianira Posted January 30, 2009 Posted January 30, 2009 Funny and apropos for future grad students: http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~abitebou/PRES ... EDBT02.pdf
misterpat Posted January 30, 2009 Posted January 30, 2009 Weird Japanese flash game, Nanaca Crash: http://nanaca.narr.as/ This game is so weird. I cannot figure it out. But I am filled with an inexplicable desire to become good at it. I think it may be the music.
zhukora Posted January 30, 2009 Posted January 30, 2009 My personal favorite: http://www.coffeebreakarcade.com An EPIC compendium of just about every mindless online game ever (with obvious exceptions like those privately produced and copyrighted, like everything at http://www.orisinal.com).
Tritonetelephone Posted January 31, 2009 Posted January 31, 2009 This game is so weird. I cannot figure it out. But I am filled with an inexplicable desire to become good at it. I think it may be the music. The trick is to start out at a small (20-degrees or so) angle and be ready to click for combos!
indy4ever Posted January 31, 2009 Posted January 31, 2009 I was going to post the amazing failblog but that's already gone up, so I will put up a few links, probably you know some. All my university friends appreciate read these: http://www.metafilter.com --> the best site on the web, IMHO, which compiles the best of the web. Look at their AskMe site as well. In fact, you might want to search the questions and answers about doing PhDs, there are a few professors who are members of this community and they have a lot of interesting stuff to say. http://www.xkcd.com --> one of the best cartoonists around. Although he can draw, he usually doesn't bother with anything more technical than a stickman. http://www.phdcomics.com --> grad student life. http://wondermark.com/312/ ---> Wondermark - strange Victorian comics. A little bit hit and miss, but makes me crack up. I've linked to my favourite one. http://www.lackadaisycats.com/archive.php ---> A Prohibition era speakeasy. Run by cats. No, it isn't another LolCatz, it is a superb comic (It has amazing artwork, story and dialogue, it's just a part time pet project by a great artist.)
holomorph Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 This thread is great! Among other sites listed here, FailBlog was new to me, and proved addictive... Arts & Letters Daily, http://www.aldaily.com, is definitely my favorite time-waster.
ohheygradschool Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 Of course, the unofficial chat has become a huge time waster for me...
storiaitaliana Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 Not time-wasting, but while you are doing nothing you might as well learn a new language: http://www.livemocha.com
kbupz Posted February 4, 2009 Posted February 4, 2009 http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2009/01/grow_tower.html You try to build a tower based on different pieces by figuring out how they interact with each other. It's more interesting than I made it sound.
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