Work is quite often best avoided. However, don’t be too aimless while you are slacking. Check out these websites of excellence to discover ways to while away the time at work. Head phones should be worn if you wish to keep your job!
Newgrounds
This site is awesome for wasting time! If you want flash movies they have them here in there hundreds. If it’s games that you want, you will get such a bewildering choice of flash driven fun here that you will be unsure where to start! This site is a treasure trove for the sometime slacker. You will want to bookmark this site and return to it again and again. Just don’t tell the boss!
The FWA
The FWA (Favorite Websites Awards) was established in 2000 and since then it has provided sustenance for those people hungry for flash-driven websites. It has a site of the day feature and also a site of the month. With over twenty categories to choose from you can narrow your search for the best flash websites in the world of web 2. This is most certainly one of those sites that you will find difficult to leave!
Electric Oyster
This is a Flash based Electric 3D engine and you really have to see it in action! It is a scrolling barren snow scape landscape and you can journey over it either by simply watching it or you can control the direction with your mouse. Add on a Jean-Michel-Jarre soundtrack and you have a slice of heaven at work! It is a very simple idea but one which will eat in to those minutes (and possibly hours) till five o’clock comes!
Face in a Hole
The name of this website says it all really! All you need is a picture of your face and you can slip it in to a huge choice of photos. If you have ever wanted to see how you would look with that perfect body or making a political speech to the masses, then this site is for you. The possibilities are (almost) endless. Of course you could place the faces of friends (or enemies) in to the hole and see how they look too! An amazing time waster for those without the will to work!
Superbad
This site will have you wondering why oh why oh why, but is almost compulsive. You clock on the links and a bewildering array of shapes and images appear – which you can click. So you do. It goes on and on – oh, and on. You may find it a little strange (just a little!) but you will look up at that clock and several hours will have passed. Don’t say you weren’t warned!
Tarot reading
If you like to idle away a little time in the pursuit of what may happen to you in the future then you could try a tarot reading. This site, unlike many others, offers them free. You choose a spread and then ask your question (this is an option – you can leave it unspoken to add that extra frisson!). The cards will then tell you your reading. Whether or not you “believe” in the tarot cards, this is nevertheless presents some pretty awesome idling opportunities which you can even spread by sharing your readings with your colleagues. Pretty soon the whole office will be doing nothing!
East Meets West
Choose your star sign and then this site will tell you all about yourself! IT is basically a combination of western and eastern astrology which come together to give you amusing personality profiles. What you already don’t know about yourself you can “discover” here. Plus, there are eleven other signs for you to peruse before you go back to finishing that report!
Amanita
This is a strange trip to an alien planet. Use your mouse to play this interactive game. The time will fly as you try to figure out – unsuccessfully – what it is all about! If you are easily bored then this site is for you but you may get a little frustrated when you have to try and get yourself out of one situation and in to another!
Hoogerbrugge
Beautiful and strange, this website will allow you to waste lots of time doing absolutely nothing productive at all. However, you will be doing nothing while playing around with one of the more sophisticated and esoteric interfaces on the net. To many this will be the ultimate time waster! Go visit!
Exactitudes
This Dutch website goes out of its way to show you that people are people all over the world. Not only that they consciously or otherwise pigeon hole themselves in to certain ‘types’. Here you can discover what these types look like – from a distance in groups or individually. A combination of great photography and no apparent raison d’être this site will keep you happily people watching for ages!
October 5th, 2008 at 4:59 am
I am going to busy!!! Thanks for the distraction RJ!
October 5th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Nice article. Because I needed to spend more time on websites…
October 5th, 2008 at 10:59 am
He he, I with Bozni here. Like I don’t spend enough time on the internet. Cool piece RJ
October 5th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
It’s sad that I knew a couple of these sites..lol. God help me I’m an addict! But I do love Face in the Hole.. It’s how I get my kicks and giggles sometimes..lol.
October 5th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
i’m in the office right now, but i will check on this sites… lol
October 6th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Looks like I’ll be checking out some of these sites. Great article. Thanks.
October 6th, 2008 at 6:00 am
Very interesting sites. I’ll be looking into these sites.
October 6th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Glad to say I’ve never come across any of this stuff before.;-)
October 6th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
I love kongregate.com for all of my gaming needs, they have things from ton’s of websites.
October 6th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Ill go check them out, sounds like a lot of fun!
October 6th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
God Idea to kill the time
October 7th, 2008 at 1:41 am
i can think of nothing better than avoiding work sometimes!
October 7th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Good list. I didn’t know any of these.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Oh no – not more excuses to avoid work! LOL!
October 8th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Wasting time at work right now. Lucky its actually my holidays. Haha
October 10th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
gustavo gomes
October 10th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Now you’ve done it!
I said that I’d not seen any of these before (because of time) and now I’ve just spent the last hour+ looking at them, tut, tut, RJ.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
This is way over done. Please come up with something more interesting.
October 28th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
I tried at the first website, is it a video site?
November 1st, 2008 at 1:22 am
Add to faves for sure…J
September 9th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Well, this one is cool. Had used a bit of my time to browse through the sites. Thanks for posting your information here.