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Every week I, SlackerDan, will bring you ten websites to waste your time at work. Who needs productivity, anyways? It is my fervent wish that you waste as much company time as possible clicking through these links at your place of work. So without further ado, here we go in the first ever issue of “Websites to Waste Your Week”:

1. Electric Oyster

   
   Here’s a great one to start off these week’s list. Want to fly over an arctic landscape while grooving to trippy music? Who doesn’t? Well, now we can with Electric Oyster. The sense of flying is very real, and the music is very funky as well. An excellent way to relax in your cubicle at work for three or four hours.

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   AmazingSuperPowers

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   Webcomic time! Finding a great webcomic and reading it from start to finish is a great way to get to 5:00 pm at your job without doing a lick of work. AmazingSuperPowers is a hilarious webcomic, often very surreal but always funny. There’s a big archive to explore as well.

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   Spacializer

   
   Want to make weird sounds from your computer so everyone in the workplace look around confusedly for the strange noise? The Spacializer will help you with that. Crank up your speakers and play with the amorphous blobs, yes! Each color has a tone, which is played when the cursor is placed over that color in the aforementioned blobs. Hypnotic and really calming, man.

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   Chuck Norris Facts

   
   Here’s a fun website about the man everyone fears, Chuck Norris. Did you know Chuck Norris doesn’t wear a watch, he decides what time it is? Incredible. This website is chock full of Chuck Norris facts, hence the url’s name. The place to go to learn more about Chuck Norris. Sir.

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   Video – “People Are Strange” (Remi Gaillard)

   
   Celebrated French prankster (well, celebrated in France, anyways) Remi Gaillard made a video to The Door’s tune, “People are Strange” and the results are hilarious. I won’t spoil it for you, but just imagine being a car driver stopped at an intersection in this video…

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   What is Your Internet Culture IQ?

   
   Think you know everything there is to know about the Internet? Well, test your skills on this website. Know where the phrase, “all your base are belong to us” comes from? How about the necessary ingredient to add to cola to make it explode? Good luck with this test!

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   Hidden Google Secrets

   
   Over at Chomp Chomp is an interesting article about some of the hidden features of the popular search engine Google. Did you know there’s a simple flight simulator in Google Earth? There’s some very interesting tips for you to discover and hopefully use at work while not working.

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   All Supernatural

   
   Feel like getting a little creeped out to make the 9-5 more full of adrenalin? Check out All Supernatural, the site with stories from contributors about their brush with UFO’s, ghosts, and/or strange creatures. This site also has a great heartbeat sound effect, maybe if you turn your computer speakers loud enough you can make your entire office go “THUMPA-THUMPA-THUMPA”.

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   Squares 2

   
   Here’s a great webgame guaranteed to assist you waste time at work. Squares 2 is a challenging Flash game where you have to hit black boxes with your black box while avoiding the red squares. There’s power-ups and point deduction shapes too, so keep your eyes and reflexes sharp. Great game, overall.

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    Crazy Rabbit

    
    And finally to wrap up this first web issue of “Websites to Waste Your Week”, here’s a pointless yet fun game-thing: Crazy Rabbit. Be careful, that crazy rabbit thinks your mouse cursor is a carrot, and if it gets too close to him he grabs onto it! You can shake him off, though, mercifully.

I hope you enjoyed these ten links and this article. I plan to publish a list of incredibly wasteful yet interesting and downright fun links every week, just for the sole purpose of making you waste time at work. If you do, leave a comment below, and tell me what links you enjoyed most or suggestions for upcoming “Websites to Waste Your Week” articles. Thanks!