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Friday, December 28, 2007
Licit Ways To Entertain Yourself At Work 2007 Compendium
Since sexual harassment, smoking and web pornography are no longer an option, we recommend the following 200 links to kill some time at the office:
1.The World's Weirdest/Stupidest Conspiracy Theories -I’m telling you man, it was the driver the one who shot JFK.
2.Spiders On Drugs -A research experiment on arachnid behavior.
3.100 ways to say “I love you” -”Show your feelings with a collage of old medical illustrations” and other great ideas to convey the message.
4.Mundane Dreams -For instance, no one is chasing me.
5.Cat Tape Tricks -It’s not just the Japanese who are weird, it’s also their cats!
6.The Apple iRack -Launching Apple’s new cutting edge idea.
7.2007 Gallery: Images of the Year -A neolithic embrace, a look inside the egg and other breathtaking, mind-blowing images.
8.Really Bad Tattoos Really, really bad. Don’t let your teenagers fish this site for ideas.
9.Mr. Doob Flash Experiments The contemporary equivalent of 80’s “video art”? (Thanks to San for the link).
10.Planet Hiltron How celebrities would really look like without the aid of photoshop and/or plastic surgery (thanks to James for the link).
11.Me Caga SantaClós -For all the Scrooges out there (thanks to Jaime for the link).
12.The Riskometer - Putting your panic attacks into perspective.
13.My Star Wars Collection - You’re a grown man, so what’s with all the toys dude?
14.Lolcats can has science ...and radioactive chzburgrs.
15.Gym Membership - It’s not enough to pay, you know? You actually have to go everyday.
16.Faces in Places -Everyday things as seen by anthropocentric eyes.
“A Public Apology” By Steve Martin. “Several years ago, In California, I ate my first clam and said it tasted "like a gonad dipped in motor oil." I would like to apologize to Bob 'n' Betty's Clam Fiesta...”
17.Bike Messengers Are on Crack ...and probably dead by now.
18.Turning Homosexuality On and Off -If you are a fruit fly you should be concerned.
19.The sight of 72 virgins waiting for a suicide bomber -Osama’s heaven.
20.10 Most Bizarre Scientific Papers -“The Effect of Country Music on Suicide” and other selected pieces of research.
21.Ask A Ninja: Special Delivery 1 "What is Podcasting?" -If you’re older than 12 you probably need this tutorial (thanks to Ric for the link).
22.For the environment's sake, don't get divorced -We don’t care if you’re miserable, the Earth needs you.
23.The Truth About the Elves -The link between Santa and the Nazis.
24.The 50 Best Robots Ever -Although it didn’t make it to this list, my all-time favorite robot is “the Bush”.
25.Kinky Fruit & Vegetables -Barely licit.
26.Crazy Ladybugs -The sick cuteness of Japanese games.
27.My Business Card Is A Ball Of Putty - It won't slip nicely into your wallet, but brilliant design often requires a slight sacrifice in function.
28.Food Pairing -The scientific way to cook.
29.The Greatest Prank Call Ever -I’m hiring this guy to answer my phone.
30.Leave String Theory Alone -Just because it’s not testable doesn’t mean it’s wrong!
31.Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters -The key issues that will decide the election.
32.Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies -The answer, in short, because we’re dumb and irrational.
33.Modesty & Grooming Standards -Because when we are clean, well-groomed, and modestly dressed, we are inclined to feel more confident about ourselves.
34.25 World’s Weirdest Animals -What would be the Intelligent Design explanation for these creatures? That God was high, drunk, or had a tough deadline?
35.Planet Bob -A different look at the world's Bio-diversity problem.
36.Custom Creatures Taxidermy Art -Pickled pets, squirrel lamps and other very very sick art.
37.I Think We're Dead -The consequences of a brownie overdose.
38.Top 40 Demotivational Posters -Because you cannot afford to feel inspired and enthusiastic about life.
39.The Best Conspiracy Theories -I knew it, I knew it! Lizard-People are running the world!
40.New and Improved Stereotypes - They say that Islamic fundamentalists really can't believe it's not butter and that Germans can get pregnant from the sound of David Hasslehoff's voice.
41.A Compendium of 150 Monty Python Sketches to spam your whole weekend.
42.Dear Science: Faking it - How to tell if a woman is faking an orgasm, and so much more
43.Leaving Kansas and joining the human species.
44.Pocoyo, narrated by Stephen Fry. Viewer’s discretion adviced, some scenes contain images of extreme cuteness (thanks to San for the link).
45.Oobject The billboard charts for gadgets.
46.Have a Seat Kermit - Ah!, so there’s where they left Jim Henson’s missing hand.
47.A Percentage Problem. Any dimensionless proportionality can be expressed as a percentage.
48.Man 'marries' dog The "bride" wore an orange sari with a flower garland and was fed a bun to celebrate.
49.Make Your Own Bush Speech -The challenge is to make him say something intelligible.
50.Little Deviant - A Toyota advergame that makes you kill for a new car. Beautiful creative graphics but an unconvincing goal (the Scion is not precisely a Bentley).
51.Liquid Trust Spray -A hit product among political candidates.
52.You can get arrested for that? -Did you know that it’s illegal to peel an orange in a Los Angeles hotel room?
53.Can you see Jesus? -He is everywhere.
54.Flying Cat -That’s nothing, my aunt’s cat can do the same thing and she lives in a 52 story building.
55.Good Watertower Vs Evil Watertower -A public service announcement. You have been warned.
56.Dan Liebert’s Blog -Funny verbal cartoons and naive wisdom.
57.Need life insurance? -This Swedish firm has good plans and it doesn’t seem to have a clause excluding stupidity as a cause of death.
58.Haiku Error Messages -Translations from Microsoft slang to Japanese Haiku poetry.
59.Bushisms -The genius behind the stupidity.
60.Greensumption -Green-wash your dirty conscience.
61.Pavlov’s Dog -Amazing how easy a psychologist can be manipulated.
62.Recycled Spam -Even junk mail is now recyclable (thanks to San for the link).
63.Vodafone MayFly Advert -All the things you can do with a one-day life expectancy.
64.Launching Pig -Soviet top-secret ballistics experiments during the Cold War.
65.Chain reaction -A carefully orchestrated pyromaniacal sequence.
66.Windows Mix -The Microsoft version of Garage Band.
67.BuzzDash -“Could you amputate your own hand if your life depended on it?” and other illuminating internet polls.
68.What to Do With Hotel Soap -Besides collecting them for your guest bathroom.
69.Clever Drunk -The pas-de-buré, a standard alcohol test for drunk drivers in some U.S. states
70.The Twinkie Project -Resistivity, gravitational response, maximum density and other tests designed to determine the properties of the Twinkie.
71.Wacky Uses -If you’re out of hair gel don’t worry, you can use Jell-O. Discover hundreds of little-known uses for well-known products.
72.World’s Worst Construction Mistakes -Architects and engineers who learned their trade through correspondence courses.
73.Craigslist Meets WallStreet… Financial advise on trading positions an depreciating assets.
74.99 rooms Pointless yet pleasing clicking.
75.Useless Facts Did you know that most collect calls are made on father's day, or that Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing? This is a great way to fill all that free space in your brain’s RAM.
76.Help-desk Stories No wonder why tech support people hate their jobs.
77.The Museum Of Unworkable Devices A celebration of fascinating devices that don't work and a tribute to their creators who refused to let their thinking be intimidated by the laws of nature.
78.Perfectly Timed Photos Sneaky randomness waiting for a photo opportunity.
79.Dynamic Einstein Picture -Your chance to write something stupid and feel like a genius.
80.To the rescue... - A more ecologically friendly way to do what you’re probably doing right now.
81.Girlspeak To English Dictionary -Become fluent in the language of crappy relationships.
82.Chuck Norris - Feeling lucky? Try this Google search.
83.YMCA - Divine inspiration meets the Village People.
84.Thinkers Anonymous - The costs of having a terrible addiction.
85.AHHHHH! - Don’t touch the edges. It isn’t as easy as it looks.
86.25 Amazing Everyday Do-it-Yourself Inventions - Life’s most pressing problems solved by the power of human creativity.
87.Graffiti City - Samples of street “wisdom”.
88.Street Painting - Please, do not step on the angel.
89.Science Games - Not precisely World Of Warcraft but still pretty addictive (Thanks to San).
90.Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing - A Primer on Parent Cruelty
91.The Hitler Swing - He may be the worst mass murderer of all times but, oh boy, he sure knew how to move those hips!
92.Japanese Human Art - Ah!...so that’s how they create the special effects in movies like "The Matrix"?
93.Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide - Read carefully, your life may depend on it! I repeat, r e a d c a r e f u l l y.
94.The Letter of the Day - Miriam’s infinite wisdom.
95.Instructables - The world’s biggest show and tell site. Make anything from a green traffic lights trigger to a folding desk.
96.Encyclopedia Of Stupid - A directory that includes itself in its listings. I like their honesty.
97.Let Fame - Stephen Fry’s musings about fame in his “Blessays, blogs and blisquisitions”.
98.Games For The Brain - For those who have one.
99.Most Effective Commercial Ever. ...If applied a priori. If a posteriori, it’s useless, you’re already doomed.
100.They Didn’t Study A petit collection of the most creative-stupid answers in school tests.
101.If Escher were in grade school today...He will probably get a D minus.
102.Micro Maniac If you are one of those who wonder what will happen to your goldfish if you put it inside the microwave, you’ll perhaps like this site.
103.Political Science A quick lesson on political ideologies using cows and giraffes.
104.X-Ray Flashlight Installation A cool effect. Those who still wear superman pajamas will really enjoy this one (thanks to San for the link).
105.How to Write a Fuge. Sing along: “Oops-I-did it again, I-wrote-a-fuge, with- Britney Spears’ words” (thanks to James for the link)
106.Some ECards “It's been too long since we threw up on each other” and other nice thoughts you can send to your loved ones.
107.Rantasaurus Rex Your Daily Rant and Sarcasm Fix
108.The Funniest Moments in Sports The human body in some of its most comical instances (via Cracked.com)
109.The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks. It’s “funny” how “people” just don’t “know” where to put their “quotations”.
110.Mutating Pictures. Help evolve an image online and see the progress.
111.How to write a best selling fantasy novel. Start by making your main character a Loser (thanks to Angelica for the link).
112.The world according to Americans. The actual mental model inside the bonehead.
113.Bubble plastic madness. For those addicted to popping.
114.The Rejection Hotline. An easy way to get rid of unwanted suitors, express lack of interest in a non-confrontational manner or gracefully escape an uncomfortable situation.
115.Human Virus Scanner. Scan yourself for several potent memetic viruses.
116.Monoface. Make your own computer-supported collaborative face.
117.The end of the Internet I never thought it’ll come, but it’s here.
118.The 8 Strangest Communities on the Web From “Ice Chewers” to “Furrs Fur Christ”, these groups will really make you uncomfortable.
119.The 8 Most Needlessly Detailed Wikipedia Entries “If you could somehow harness just the brain power that's currently being spent on, say, memorizing fantasy football stats, you could probably cure cancer.”
120.How to discuss books that one hasn’t read. Is it possible to have a meaningful discussion about a book one hasn’t read, even with someone who hasn’t read it either?
121.Sex Calorie Calculator. Plan your workout and get rid of those unflattering love handles (by grabbing your partner’s).
122.Your weight and age on other planets. Cool! I’m just 20 years on Mars and weigh 45 pounds on Mercury.
123.Creative and Useful Inventions. I will definitely buy a stairs-cupboard.
124.Internet 96 Check out how primitive the web looked in 1996.
125.Guide to France A guide for the American traveler.
126.Battle at Kruger Amazing! Like watching Mexico beat Brazil in the World Cup Final.
127.The Philosophy of Kissing We know what a "platonic kiss" is, but what about an Aristotelian or a Hegelian kiss?
128.Bill Maher's New Rules: Article of Faith If you believe in Judgment Day I will seriously have to question your judgment.
129.Science Tattoos Evidence that scientists aren’t nerds. Here’s a sneak peak at what’s under their white coats.
130.CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years. The worst part is that there was probably some really, really important information in these documents.
131.Dialectizer Translate anything to Redneck and other popular dialects.
132.I Used To Believe A collection of nonsense that adults thought made sense when they were children. Some cute, some funny, some disturbing.
133.Shave Your Yeti Then dress him and watch him skate.
134.Dungeons And Dragons In 8 Bit An 8-bit reenactment of the famous game.
135.Randy Johnson Hits Bird I just have one question, does it count as “strike” or “ball”?
136.Are You Another Vietnam? Don’t laugh, you could be one...
137.Wet Cats For those who don’t like dirty cats.
138.Anymails Your e-mail seen as a microbe colony.
139.Spacesounds Check out what a Black Hole sounds like and listen the remnants of the Big Bang.
140.Fake moon landings revealed You’ll see some compelling evidence of the hoax.
141.Wilkinson Finally, men can take revenge and win back their wives.
142.Crazy Patents Inventions that will never make it to the shelves of your local store.
143.We Feel Fine For those with feelings, an exploratorium of human emotion.
144.Sarcasm for beginners Includes a step by step tutorial on how to be sarcastic.
145.Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity In words of four letters or less.
146.Flight 404 The beauty of Processing and of having a lot of free time.
147.Dispatches from the Couch: Stupidity Intolerance Disorder. Correspondent J. Bishop reports on the world as seen from the couch.
148.Osama’s Friendstr Page. Include him in your network. He enjoys reading, hanging out with his wives and creating terrorist plots to bring about the destruction of the non-Muslim world.
149.Tips On Getting More Efficency Out Of Women Employees For instance, did you know that a girl is more efficient if she can keep her hair tidied and apply fresh lipstick several times a day?
150.The Advertising Slogan Generator A tool for those with little creativity and an uncontrollable urge to advertise everything in their lives.
151.Coitus Interruptus From the 2007 Darwin Awards, comes this masterpiece of human stupidity.
152.Monty Python's Silly Walks Generator With this tool you’ll be able to control the speed and level of silliness of your own silly walks.
153.Top 20 Things You Wish You Could Say At Work An excellent piece of wishful thinking from the JardMail.
154.Dumb Laws From the Dumb Network here’s a collection of stupid regulations from all over the world.
155.Urban Legends Reference Pages. “A lottery winner is run over by a truck and killed hours after his win.” Fact or fiction? Find out...
156.Math Humor Some sick jokes from the twisted minds of mathematicians.
157.High-speed Video Clips For super slow motion action voyeurs.
158.Cow Abductions A collection of alien cow abduction evidence and documentation.
159.Pay to the order of Verizon Communications. The consequence of having a bad Costumer Service Department
160.Destroy the Web. Throw tomatoes at Amazon, make a demonstration at E-bay, or if you prefer, make God Almighty destroy ChiliConDarwin.
161.Successful Ex-Smuggler Looking for Job. References available from the U.S. District Attorney. Really.
162.Ragdoll. Barely legal form of entertainment. Almost didn’t make this section.
163.The Worst of the Web. Truly awful websites.
164.Build a Better Bush. Mine has a goatee and is always drunk.
165.The Most Beautiful Machine. Trunk, prosthesis, compressor and pneumatic cylinder.
166.Van Gogh’s Starry Night. A whopping 1.5 gigapixel image. Just zoom in until you realize its size.
167.Science Cartoon Plus. Some are even funny.
168.10 Most Amazing Illusions. More cases of perception vs.reality.
169.Samorost 2. The second part of a game we recommended here some while ago. In case you missed it, here’s Part 1.
170.Improbable Research The home for the IgNoble Awards and other unlikely research.
171.The Surrealist Compliment Generator Because you are truly a wristwatch in a world of lumps.
172.xkcd A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
173.Google Technology Have you ever wondered what’s the technology behind Google's great results?
174.HUHCorp Want to be part of the new Internet economy? Consider hiring these guys, they do stuff.
175.This Just In: “Web's Increasingly Worldly Flavor Threatens Americans' Worldview”.
176.My Cat Resume Why adopt a cat, when you can hire this guy.
177.Hair E-Card Express your love in an original way.
178.Why You Will Never Have a Girlfriend The Scientific Explanation.
179.Weird Science Facts Did you know that there are 3 golf balls sitting on the moon? (I’m not kidding.
180.Warning: Gravity is “Only a Theory” by Ellery Schempp
181.The TUL Graphological Initiative (Highly recommended)
182.The Outrage Generator (Identity politics made easy)
183.Airline Safety Procedures by Airtoons
184.Microsoft End User License Agreement (Be careful what you agree to)
185.Top 13 Worst Slogan Translations Ever from Moronland
186.First Atomic Clock Wristwatch (Finally here! you won’t be late anymore)
187.The Cadaver Calculator (Find out what your body is worth)
188.Check Your Love Life (Warning: The Swiss are weird!) Thanks to James
189.The God F.A.Q.
199.Bush and Blair
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