The following web sites provide hour after hour of mindless
and amusing surfing. Warning: Stay
away from these sites if you have something important that
needs to be done.
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Armadillo Run lets you apply rules of physics to a fairly simple problem: move an armadillo to a specific location using the fewest materials possible. |
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Art
Pad is a drawing and painting tool. Lots of
fun. Can't really do much with it though. Tons
of fun for the kids. |
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Badger
Badger. An oldie but a goodie. |
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Boing
Boing is a popular web site for those interested
in popular culture and the latest technology trends. |
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Copter.
Navigate your helicopter through a maze. |
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Despair
owns the trademark to the frowny emoticon. The
also sell an entire line of demotivational products. |
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Ding
Fries Are Done. Not everyone gets to be a rocket
scientist. |
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Dots.
An easy and addictive game. |
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FlyteComm. Track the status of any flight real time. |
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Want a gangsta name? Check out the Gangsta Name Generator. |
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This is certainly one of the strangest
time wasting web sites out there! Use you mouse
to let George
Bush tumble through this ball-filled universe. |
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Along with YouTube (below), Google
Video is probably one of the most addictive
time wasting web sites on the Internet. |
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No collection of mindless web sites
would be complete without the epic and legendary
Hamster
Dance! |
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Have you ever watched a movie or
TV show and thought t yourself, where have I seen
that guy before? The Internet
Movie Database is a gold mine of entertainment
trivia. |
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Jib
Jab. The source for all of those great animated
political cartoons. |
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Make Your Own McDonald's Sign.
Create a McDonald's sign with your own text. Here's our design. |
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MiniMizer.
Create your own toy figure. |
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Moof.
It's a Mac thing. You wouldn't understand. |
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Hungry for Pi? Check out this web
site. It will give you pi to one million
decimal places. Brought to you by the
good folk at 3.1415926535897...com |
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What does your telephone number spell? PhoneSpell will tell you. |
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Have you ever been in a situation
where you needed a decent excuse to bail out?
Popularity
Dialer lets you schedule an "interrupting"
telephone call. |
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South
Park Character Creator. Yes, you can create
pictures of people in the style of South Park. |
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Subserviant
Chicken. Burger King created with web site
as part of its chicken sandwich ad campaign. On
this site, you get to tell the guy in the chicken
suit to do whatever you want. |
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ThinkGeek
is one of our favorite places to buy geeky toys.
They have everything from red staplers to cool
cube toys. |
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Unusual Google
Interfaces:
Elmer
Fudd | Hacker
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Pig
Latin | Swedish
Chef (from the Muppets) |
Would you like to see Google
with a slightly different appearance? Check out
these strange alternatives. |
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Unusual Language Translation
Services:
Klingon
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Sure, there are many web sites providing
translation services for French, Spanish, German
and even Chinese. These two translation services
provide less popular language support. |
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Do you find the copyright law too
confusing? This
web page condenses the entire law into rhyming
verses. Really! |
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Wastepaper
Basketball. Toss wadded paper balls into the
wastepaper basket. It is tougher than it sounds. |
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Whack
the Penguin. Simple premise: Bigfoot uses a
bat to send a penguin flying across the snow. |
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Winners.
AKA the singing-running kitty. |
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What do you do if you're a Photoshop artist with too much time on your hand? You create interesting doctored photos. Worth1000 is a fascinating collection of very clever doctored photos. |
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YouTube
lets you spend countless hours watching videos
of homemade music videos, science experiments gone
wrong and people doing some amazingly stupid things. Now part of the Google Empire. |
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Otterbein College
does not in any way endorse these companies, products
or services. These listings are provided as a resource
only.
If you would like to suggest a cool time-wasting web site for this page, contact the
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Web Sites
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