Bored? Unspeakably, interminably, mind-blowingly bored at work? Then why not put on those headphones and be productive with your time instead. Ten great ideas can be found within – ten websites with which to waste way too much time at work.
Colors in Motion
Color is hugely important, and at work it is even more so as this is spend most of your day: whether you are asleep or awake is somewhat relevant but whether you snooze in a somnambulistic manner or become rigid with boredom, there must be a way out. Thinking about what you would do with the office décor given the time, energy, inclination or court order will give you plenty of distraction from that stuff which pays the bills and feeds your children. This site allows you to discover the importance of color. And it is really, really important. Honest.
The Sun in Motion
This website is a little cerebral, so if you do not know what that means, skip it and go on to the next one! However, you may be a sun worshipper and if so, why not spend some time getting to know all about the big shiny thing that orbits our little blue planet. Or is that the other way around? Whatever, you can learn all sorts of stuff here that will impress your workmates. Plus it is available in full screen and Imax version so you can really get to grips with the science in a big way. This will keep you busy for a long, long time!
Elevator Moods
Do you have an elevator at work? Ever done anything in it? That’s a shame. Why not give yourself a few ideas by looking in to what other people do when they are in the elevator. There are fourteen floors to explore (no number thirteen?) and each experience will enable you to learn just that little bit more about your fellow man, while the clock ticks inexorably towards home time. Waste not, want a lot.
Flower Garden
If you are interested in nature but all the science of the sun in motion makes your head hurt, then you can create your own flower garden instead. Simply click on the screen and a flower will appear. Click again and another. You can even keep your finger down on the mouse button and wave it about (like you’re dealing with some really heaving accounts in Excel) and you can get a whole garden immediately. Once your screen is full, refresh it and start again. And again. Ad infinitum. Brainless but compulsive, you will go home knowing that the day at work was good.
Office Party Invitation
If you want to knock up a quick but effective logo for that rather drunken congregation of colleagues you are planning, then this site is the perfect one. You can choose from a variety of famous brands, pop in your own words and hey presto, an image you can then paste on to that invite to give it a professional look. This may not be classy, but it will get the message across that your party is going to me much more trailer than condo. There are lots of other brilliant ideas at this website – so this will definitely kill some time – and make you hugely popular at the same time. Ahem.
Make your own Peace Crane
Work can be tiresome. Interminably. The good thing about offices though is that there is always heaps and heaps of paper around. Paperless offices were a good idea, but what a flash in the digital pan they proved to be! Talking of flash, this animated website may be just enough for you to fend of those ‘boredom bends’ at work. So enough griping from me, go put some of that paper to good use and make yourself an origami peace crane (only one of a number you can choose from here). As well as doing something useful at work (for once?) you will discover an inner peace you thought impossible in the workplace. Plus the animation is step by step and you can pause it so your clumsy fingers can catch up! You can even go on to make a zillion of them and surprise everyone the next day by displaying your handiwork throughout the workplace. You will be adored! Especially by the boss. Beware though – promotion and defenestration are words that managers sometimes confuse with each other.
The Weather
The weather! You need to know if you are going to need to carry that umbrella all the way back home and lose it – again. Well, not that you would lose the same one again, of course, you would lose another umbrella because the other one is lost. Already. Never mind. You type in your location and you will be told the likelihood of rain in your area. That won’t waste much time I hear you sneer with a harrumph. Well, you have friends in other places, don’t you? All over the world I expect. Go ahead. You know you want to!
Forget the Rain, Nuke Your Town
If your idea of rain is rather more apocalyptic than a little aqueous precipitation, why not let the fallout fall instead? With a little help from Google Maps and a teensy weensy bit of JavaScript you can see what the effects of a nuclear bomb would be in your neighborhood – or anywhere else for that matter. Plus, you get to choose the bomb too! Here, I chose ‘Fat Man’ to destroy Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Not because I have anything against the cit, you understand; just, no-one would notice it was gone. On this site, you can choose a variety of bombs, up to one hundred and forty kilotons. If that isn’t enough you can also see what a meteor would do with your place of choice. Bliss for those of you who think Jericho should never have been cancelled..
Unnecessary Knowledge
You may love trivia and if so you need to acquire it in the laziest way possible. All this site requires you to do is to press the refresh button and you have some wonderful wisdom to impart to your colleagues on your coffee break (you know, the time between nine and five). The knowledge is, as it says on the label, completely unnecessary, which of course makes it all the more desirable.
Last but Not Least… Zombo
If all of the above involve using way too much energy then simply c lick on the link above to take you to a place on the net where you have to do nothing. Welcome to Zombocom! Sit back, listen and watch that clock! It will soon be time to go home and log in and, well, you know the rest!
A final note to those readers who did not find every site mentioned in this article ‘wondrous’. Many tastes must be catered for at every banquet! Plus, did you see that alliteration in the title? Did you see it? Hey, hey! Click the ‘liked it’ button! Darn it, they’ve gone…
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:00 am
Wow, I’m the first to comment… at last!… What a wonderful waste of time, indeed! My favorite is the New Triond Logo.
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:46 am
Great article.
December 2nd, 2008 at 5:34 am
These look great. I’ll try to have a look at some.
Christine
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:19 am
very entertaining article.
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:36 am
The triond one looks good, but I’m not internet savvy.
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:36 am
I love the flowers. So easy and satisfyingly hypnotic
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
love the nuke one, cheers.
December 2nd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
I don’t usually waste my time, but I’ll see one of them.
December 2nd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Great Collection of sites.
December 2nd, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Entertainings links.
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Ok, Zombo com was so stupid it was hilarious. After he said the same thing over ten times in ten diff. ways I couldn’t stop laughing. Love it RJ!
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:32 pm
sounds good but I don’t have time to play when I am at work. Good luck to all of you who do. I’m kidding, take care, Ruby
December 3rd, 2008 at 4:48 am
great tips, i will try this in my office, lol.
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:12 am
Nice work RJ!
I was compiling something similar to publish at the same time, lol.
December 3rd, 2008 at 10:40 pm
More to waste time at work? At this rate I won’t have a job soon! haha
December 4th, 2008 at 2:28 am
If RJ’s 10 aren’t enough… here is another five that I highly recommend!
http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Five-Best-Internet-Sites-to-Pass-the-Time.377761
ahhh, the internet.
December 4th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
http://www.nosubscriptionrequired.net/ offers the largest list of free movies on the net
December 5th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Thanks for the invit to the Triond booze-up RJ! Where and when?
December 6th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
All I can say is Wow!!! I’m certainly impressed. I loved it!
December 6th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I like it!
December 6th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Thanks for letting me know. I would never have guessed there were places like these on the web.
December 7th, 2008 at 3:55 am
Great finds. Thanks for sharing!
December 7th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
If I was allowed to explore these at work, I would never get anything done!!! But at home….well, you may have just lost me a few days!!
December 8th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
LOL…this list is funny. I love it!
December 16th, 2008 at 8:38 am
the elevator is gonna keep me busy for a while. i’m gonna have to come look at this again. also gonna put this one in my blog.
February 11th, 2009 at 2:32 am
elevator!!!
Tried it just then!
April 14th, 2009 at 11:56 am
we-ul…me(aka jenjen) and kozmokitty we have to say that we deff. disagree with everything i just didnt read..see thats why we disagree…cuz we dont want to agree with someone on something that we dont even know what they are talking about…
ELEVATORS SUCK!!!! ESCALATORS ARE FREAKIN’ KILLER!!!
but anywho…everyone is prolly getting mad b/c were writing so much so we will go now..love you guys!!!
April 14th, 2009 at 11:58 am
oopsy we spelled kozmokitty wrong….sorry guys this is how u really spell it!!!
KOZMOKITTY
April 14th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
why does everyone have pictures and we dont by our names!!!!
all ur names are dumb anyways!!! we hate you!!!
thanks guys love you!!!
April 14th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
well i finally skimmed throu and seen this is how to waste time at work…really me and kozmokitty here are actually at school!!!
p.s. dont hate us please!!!!! this is the last one i promise!!! love you lots and lots!!!
April 14th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
You’re sweet. Now go to bed.
May 27th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
You can also add http://www.playnesflashgames.com to your list. I use it at work to play Nintendo video games!
August 7th, 2009 at 5:26 am
ahah the nuke one is um kind of disturbing…but awesome!!
im addicted to this site called I HAD A WIN where people post stories of how awesome their life is (www.ihadawin.com)
oh and virtual stapler (www.virtualstapler.com)