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Ok, to start off im just going to say that I procrastinate. Alot. Honestly, instead of writing this I should be writing a poetry analysis, or studying for my finals, both of which I have to do by tomorrow. This brings us to the topic at hand: my favorite ways to put off doing work just a little bit longer. I have put countless hours into each of these sites, and i can personally guarantee that they will help you put off that annoying work by an hour or two.

So, without further ado, my top four time wasters:

Stumble upon is a small toolbar which you can install into your browser. You sign up on the website for an account, select you interests out of diverse topics such as sports, technology, and music, and then hit the magical button installed on your browser. This will bring up a page which other stumblers have submitted and voted on, and that aligns with your interests. If you like the page, click the I Like it! Button and send more traffic its way, or if its not interesting enough, just click on the button again and off you go. I have spent countless hours stumbling through random sites, and even aside from all of the entertainment, I have even found several very useful sites. Install it now.

There have always been ways to watch television online (most of dubious legality), but Hulu brings you a lot of your favorite shows with minimal hassle, and its even completely legal. Offering many popular shows, such as The Office, Family Guy, and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, all you have to put up with during the shows is several advertisements, most of which last between 10 – 20 seconds. It is quite a bit less then you would be forced to watch on television, and its available at any time. Hulu even offers many feature length movies, and there is almost always something worth watching being added. Catch up on your favorite shows or discover new ones.

Everyone likes proving that they know a lot about something, and Sporcle offers a lot of quizzes that test your knowledge of everything from presidents of the US to naming the Brady Bunch. You hit the start button, and then in a time limit you must type in all of the answers that you know or can figure out. It can get quite hectic, as you are wracking your brain for that last James Bond movie, and there is a feeling of accomplishment when you remember it with 10 seconds left on the clock. Best of all there are detailed statistics of how many questions people got right, and even what percentage of people got each answer, so you can consider yourself among an elite 1.5% of quiz takers when you remember that Beau Weaver voiced Superman in his cartoon series. Its just the right amount of competitive fun, and a way to test a lot of knowledge that some people may consider “useless” .

I have always been an avid reader, and though my actual time available for physical books has dropped off over the years, I have been reeled in by e-books. The Free Information Society provide pdfs of all kinds of random guides, how tos, and random interesting topics. It even has down loadable mp3s of historical speeches, and schematics of many random electrical parts. I don’t really need to know how to create a 13.8V DC Power supply, but its comforting to know that the information is there. Aside from that, instead of writing about how poetic devices are used in The Road Less Travelled, I’ve learned how to pick locks, or how to get revenge on someone who really deserves it. There is even a lot of technical information on plenty of different subjects if your interested, and its worth a look.