Internet Time Wasters

[Kevy Baby]

I thought there was a thread for this, but UTL.

Post your favorite internet time wasters (besides LoT). A friend pointed me to WolframAlpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com/), which is a "Computational Knowledge Engine." There are a lot of things to keep you amused, including looking up when your own name was most popular (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Kevin&t=ff3tb01) (I am at the peak of the bell curve) or facts about comparing two stocks (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Microsoft+Apple) (I was rather intrigued comparing the financial information of Apple vs. Microsoft).

What cool sites do you have?

[Ghoulish Delight]

http://www.boingboing.net

http://mag.ma

http://www.addictinggames.com

http://www.nikoli.com/en/

http://www.conceptispuzzles.com

http://www.zombo.com

[mousepod]

http://sporcle.com

[Not Afraid]

I can barely keep up with the 2 boards I read plus facebook. If I need to waste time, I catch up on my crafty blogs.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

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[JWBear]

I though the entire internet is one big time waster. I must be doing it wrong.

[keith - SuPeR K!]

http://www.zombo.com

Oh zombo com, let me count the hours you have amuseth me!

THIS IS ZOMBO COM!!!

[Capt Jack]

sproinggggggggggg (http://garyc.me/bring/)

[Kevy Baby]

Hell, you get points just for remembering this thread!

[Kevy Baby]

sproinggggggggggg (http://garyc.me/bring/)No worky on iPad :(

[Betty]

Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/)

[Capt Jack]

No worky on iPad :(

aww. thats a shame. its a pity cats cant play with it. I think the count would go up dramatically

[Ghoulish Delight]

Staggering Beauty (http://www.staggeringbeauty.com/)

"Those at risk of epileptic seizures
should choose a different website."

[Capt Jack]

didnt work on IE for me, but did on Firefox.

like many things, you have to flog it pretty hard to get the desired reaction. ;) (they werent however, kidding about that seizure thing)

[Freaky Tiki]

http://tvtropes.org

[CoasterMatt]

Thankfully, I'm not photosensitive.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Thankfully, I'm not photosensitive.
Why, has someone been criticizing your vacation snaps?


*badumbum*

[CoasterMatt]

:D

[Capt Jack]

The Hall of Douchebags (http://www.rockandrollconfidential.com/hall/hall_detail.php?dd_keyid=429)

[Moonliner]

Oh ohh. This could be trouble....

Atari ports classic games to HTML5. (http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/30/atari-ports-classic-games-to-html5-for-web-and-windows-8-users/)

Play them here. (http://atari.com/arcade#!#!/arcade/atari-promo)

[SzczerbiakManiac]

My youth! :)

[Capt Jack]

crap. you just HAD to post that...didntya?

(;))

[Kevy Baby]

My virginity!

[Alex]

No Spider Fighter, no interest.

[Moonliner]

Holy carp!

There is a live webcam (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream) on the International Space Station. How did I not know that?

It's even more fun if you can see exactly where it is. (http://iss.astroviewer.net/)


In fact look: It's you! (For those of you who live in the greater LA area anyways)
http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv243/stevesphotobook/you.png

[Moonliner]

Cool and just a bit creepy. Always a good combination.

320 Gigapixel photo of London. (http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Spent about 20 minutes trying to cross reference with Google Maps satellite view to figure out what the cool looking glass building here (http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=81.2507&view.vlookat=10.0610&view.fov=12.0438&imarkerath=81.2507&imarkeratv=10.0610) is, only to finally realize that it's a dirt lot still on Google Maps.

[Moonliner]

Spent about 20 minutes trying to cross reference with Google Maps satellite view to figure out what the cool looking glass building here (http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=81.2507&view.vlookat=10.0610&view.fov=12.0438&imarkerath=81.2507&imarkeratv=10.0610) is, only to finally realize that it's a dirt lot still on Google Maps.

It's a new multi-use building called the "Park House (http://www.buildington.co.uk/new_developments/london_w1/453-497_oxford_street/park_house/id/474)"

I looked it up in google earth, as you say it's a dirt lot but street view had images of it including one that showed a sign with the name of the construction company "Mace". From there a little Google-Foo lead to the building.

Yeah, this thread is living up to it's name today.

[Ghoulish Delight]

It's a new multi-use building called the "Park House (http://www.buildington.co.uk/new_developments/london_w1/453-497_oxford_street/park_house/id/474)"

I looked it up in google earth, as you say it's a dirt lot but street view had images of it including one that showed a sign with the name of the construction company "Mace". From there a little Google-Foo lead to the building.

Yeah, this thread is living up to it's name today.Yeah, I did eventually get there. Actually, google satellite view, at one of the zoom levels, did have the dirt lot labeled as "Park House".

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Virtual Spirograph (http://nathanfriend.io/inspirograph/)

[Snowflake]

Virtual Spirograph (http://nathanfriend.io/inspirograph/)

Okay, that was fun!