Work is often best avoided. However, don’t be aimless while you are slacking. Check out these websites of excellence to discover ways to while away the time at work. Head phones are just a suggestion if you wish to keep your job.
Work is often best avoided. However, don’t be aimless while you are slacking. Check out these websites of excellence to discover ways to while away the time at work. Head phones are just a suggestion if you wish to keep your job!
Horse Quartet
A weird and wonderful, almost hypnotic take on the barbershop quartet. Four horses which can be activated individually or all together will deliver you a song that will either drive you wild with irritation or reduce you to tears of laughter. With these permutations and combinations, this site could have you hooked for hours of mindless but deeply satisfying entertainment. Pure lunacy designed to while away the time till you can leave the office and go home to watch it again.
Bubble Wrap Heaven
If you like clicking bubble wrap till there is no more to click, you will love this! Your PC screen can become a giant piece of warp and you can satisfyingly click all the bubbles till there are none left. Fear not though, you can create a new sheet by clicking on “Fresh sheet”. If you are feeling nervous, then there is a manic mode where the bubbles will pop simply by waving your mouse over them. Empty headed and aimless fun – we love it!
Teddy Bear Tower
Watch the teddies fall then watch them jump up again, and again and again. Once you have finished with the teddies you can click on the twirly hair and go to the next time consuming and wasting part of this site. Absolutely no constructive use of your time guaranteed on this wonderful website!
Converter
A guaranteed complete waste of your time in a mindless and enjoyable way, this site allows you to type in any measurement. Then, you will get the equivalent conversion for three real objects. Great to see what your height and weight convert to, if you are really looking to depress yourself before you go home.
Screaming Beans
Watch the tin of beans fill up and then click on it until it explodes. The beans don’t like it of course, and one little guy starts screaming and screaming until you have to put him out of his misery by clicking on him. Then another little bean discovers his mushy mate and starts screaming his little head off too. No problem, squish him too! Be careful, though, they get faster and faster!
Zombo
A very, very strange site but perfect if you are feeling dead after a day at work and want to surf the net with the smallest effort. You can stay on this site for hours and do absolutely nothing.
Soothing Origami
We all gave up on the idea of a paperless office years ago. There is always lots of it lying around, so what better way to while away the endless hours between lunch and home time than to try a little origami? This fabulous site will guide you, whether you are a novice or a burgeoning expert, in to the soothing world that is paper folding. Then, take your finished items home with you – so you can show the family what you did at work today!
Design a Flower
If origami isn’t your bag then hours can be spent creating your own flowers then seeing what they would look like when you “grow” a plant featuring them. You can even send them to your friends and colleagues as a measure of your productivity for the day. You will not notice the minutes, let alone the hours, zooming by with this site. A blooming marvelous time waster, if you forgive the pun.
Destroy the Internet
Type in the URL of a website, and then destroy the site with a variety of tools. You can choose from insects such as wasps or flies, to dinosaurs or chainsaws. You can even enlist the hand of God to help you out here. There are so many choices that it could take hours to look at all of them, and decide which websites to demolish. Childish and puerile, but immense fun, you get the hacker buzz but no one gets hurt!
The Idiot Test
This will take you a long time to complete for two reasons. Firstly, there are lots of “questions” to answer. Secondly, if you get something wrong you have to go all the way back to the beginning. If you have any sort of work-shy tenacity then you won’t be able to resist starting all over again.
It should almost be time for you to go home by now. Before you log out, always click “The End”.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:28 am
Don’t get much time to waste at work..but good idea when my wife isn’t home..
June 8th, 2008 at 5:45 am
Already spend a lot of time on the net but if ever I can’t find something to do RJ, I’ll be sure to check some of these out. One I have used in the past for some light entertainment is stickdeath.com. Not very PC but hey. Nice article by the way.
June 8th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Not my kind of thing, but I can see why so many people enjoy them. I’m sure this will do well.
June 8th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Mindless Fun, Have to click on it!
June 8th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Funny and utterly useless websites to waste some not-so valuable time. RJ Evans, you have written a fun piece of work here and it should reach the frontpage of Triond soon.
Congratulations, for all of your recent Triond success and wishing more in the future.
God Bless,
Nelson Doyle
June 8th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
you know if you right click and press forward on the idiot test you don’t have to go backwards
June 8th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Truly amazing ways to waste time. How many research hours went into this article, anyway?
June 8th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I have tried some of these and they will truely drive you crazy. Good to keep the kids busy.
June 9th, 2008 at 12:15 am
You forgot to add
http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com
June 9th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Lack of wikipedia makes this list an epic fail.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:01 am
What about that iSketch site? I’ve blown a like of time there…
Oh, heres another good site to kill time on and maybe even find some free games to play:
http://mmohub.org
June 9th, 2008 at 1:02 am
Gr8 more cool stuff for me to slack with..thanks
June 9th, 2008 at 1:25 am
You can always visit http://www.1cup1coffee.com . A game site with all the games looking like word documents in a Windows XP folder.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:26 am
cool great stuff^^
June 9th, 2008 at 3:03 am
Great article. Unfortunately I don’t work in an office as I would be using those sites for sure.
June 9th, 2008 at 6:16 am
Here’s another site to watch all the latest movies free at work
on your desktop
http://www.nosubscriptionrequired.net/
June 9th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Here is a really good site to waste time on at work. Buttonbeats.com There Is a Piano you can play with your keyboard! I waste so mutch time on this thing. Should have been on the list!
June 9th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Here’s another one for the pile:
http://www.generatorland.com
Lots of funny random generators you won’t find anywhere else!
June 9th, 2008 at 9:45 am
very nice & fantastic.
June 9th, 2008 at 11:12 am
I only get to use the computer when my kids are at school, but I would like to try that bubble popping thing. Hope I get my submission for today written – if not I can blame you!
June 9th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Okay, that’s it, I’m trying the bubble wrap site. These are great! Thanks for the tips AND the laugh!
June 10th, 2008 at 1:43 am
the horses are hilarious! they reduced me to tears
)
June 10th, 2008 at 7:01 am
Nice sites! How creative. Thanks.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Something that requires a bit more thought but is still a time sucker http://www.soapboxxer.com
June 10th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I will try those……….. if I could read what sites they are.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Hey dude! i checked out some of those sites! They are pretty entertaining, i like that destroy the internet one! Add me to you friends anyone! and look for my post, it has some other sites that waste a good amount of time and also are entertaining. Bye!
June 10th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Wasting time @ work & at home. Good publishing!
June 10th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Great ariticle!
June 11th, 2008 at 9:12 am
I love Zombo.com
June 11th, 2008 at 10:36 am
LOL…. you’ve done it again RJ… LOL
June 11th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
wow, there goes 1/2 hour.
http://www.sffix.com
June 11th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
yayyyy! finally a bubble wrap with out the wrap!
June 11th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
It was a lot of fun, but when it asks you to hit the rectangle, any of the red quadrilaterals currently on the page should be acceptable, as they are ALL rectangles. A square is a rectangle with four equal sides. That question needs a bit of work!
June 11th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
My apologies, I didn’t specify that my note was intended specifically for the “Idiot Test” website. I guess I just failed my own idiot test!
I enjoyed your list, by the way. Thank you!
June 12th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Has anybody else had trouble opening any of these pages? I had problems with Horse Quartet and Bubble Wrap. Gives me a blank page. Double clicking the status bar gives:
Line: 2
Char: 1
Error: Invalid Character
Code: 0
and
Line: 1
Char: 1
Error: Object Expected
Code: 0
I thought it might be something here at work, but another guy was able to open them on his laptop.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:13 am
I miss the bubble wrap. Pressing and popping the bubbles takes away the stress. What are we going to be in the future? Let me guess voice recognition commands? Little exercise physically, but a lot more vocally.
Anyway, this is good enough for me right now, thanks for sharing.
June 12th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
A great site is addictinggames.com If you can get away with it, there are thousands of games to entertain you all day
June 13th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
good stuff
i waste so much time on the internet already so most of theese i already know but some i dont so AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
June 13th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
the horse quartet… is really cool….
June 13th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
It was amazing. Next time I’ll try them. Thanks for sharing it to us.
June 14th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I love it. It’s a great work.
June 15th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
paheli.com is one of the best gaming site i ve ever come across. it not only helps to you to entertain but also to creat some friends over it..
June 15th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
I love the alliteration in the title, just thought I’d say so haha.
June 15th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
title is nice, text is nongrasping
June 15th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Whats the deal with zombo.com.
Is anythign supposed to happen on that site? How can anyone kill hours looking at that blank screen?
Ah wait a minute, I left it for a few mins and now it’s gone into a shopping site… WHAT?????
June 18th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
What’s the bubble wrap heaven website ?
June 18th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
dude i tried some of these. I like the horse quartet but i don’t like the idiot test. I keep failing lol
June 21st, 2008 at 8:21 pm
I really think that we all are guilty of wasting
time on the internet, but I love it, thanks for the new sites, now I can surf even more.
http://www.wesellhalifax.com
June 24th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Nice Article.
Look at my stuff my user is Sebastian Pillinger
June 27th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Good mix, fun.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Confused, put the sound on. Zombo.com was one of the first and still greatest uses of Flash way back in 2000 or so.
July 12th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Like most, I’ve seen some of these, others not. The ones I have seen were from pointlesssites.com
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:29 am
Great post, as soon as I can find time to waste I’m gonna give it a try
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Creative waste of time. Well presented – I like it
July 25th, 2008 at 8:54 am
on the idiot test, it was kinda mean when it said press the green button quick but DONT press the red button on the other times lol
July 25th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
wanna impress your male friends?
try http://www.misternicehands.com
July 25th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
oh, I forgot.. and click on either hand!!
July 27th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Great! I like the idiot test site.
August 4th, 2008 at 8:46 am
What is the address for all these sites?
I’d like to peep them.
August 4th, 2008 at 8:48 am
What is the address for all these sites?
I\’d like to peep them.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
AND if your admins at school or work block these or any other sites?
just use a free proxy such as:
http://www.reseachtoppicks.com
http://www.esmacorp.com
http://www.pimpmyproxy.info
http://www.proxy000.info
cheers
August 21st, 2008 at 11:10 am
Other suggestions:
http://www.freetv.tv
http://www.free-online-tv.tv
http://www.cable-tv-online.info
August 29th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Personally there’s no bigger time-waster than http://www.ifate.com
August 29th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
you forgot http://UPL8.tv
September 9th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
the scrolling of this page is about as irritating as hemorrhoids!
September 13th, 2008 at 12:13 am
You got me with the Zombo.com. Great links!