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In my downtime I sometimes like to kill a half hour or so checking out some websites that are regularly updated with short, easily digestible things. These may be news articles, lists of interesting stuff, you know the like.

Listverse is good. Gizmodo isn't exactly high on the "quality" list but updates often and usually has at least a couple interesting pictures/gifs. This forum, naturally. Snopes is excellent.

 

Anyone know any others worthy of note? Any diamonds in the rough?

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If you are after not just killing time but absolutely massacre it, I will suggest notpron, an old online riddle game of pretty monumental magnitude and difficulty but one that will see you learn a whole lot you might not know beforehand.

 

Disclaimer: It's been years since I played it but I do believe it is still online.

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Http://Windows93.net

 

press f11 and enjoy

 

warning it has one or two nsfw things hidden around but are rather hard to find.

Http://blankmediagames.com 

 

a mafia game set in salem the main down side to this place is that people are idiots and you can not use facial clues to figure out who is lying 

needs adobe flash to run

 

http://arcadeprehacks.com 

this place is were you can play hacked flash and unity web games rather fun.

 

Http://godieinahole.com 

just a rather smart person who codes java without pants.

 

http://piskel.com 

make pixel gif art fun and easy 

 

Irc.esper.net channel #kspofficial

not a website but waste your time here on the chatriomby ssking geniuses questions about anything at all

Https://wolframalpha.com 

okay you might not find this fun but i love asking random equations to it and seeing the output.

Http://cleverbot.com 

talk to an ai that was amazing and is niw ruined from people using improper english to it.

 

https://wikipedia.org 

Don't tell me you have never found yourself on wikipedia looking at some random page suge as how maser were invented before laser.

 

Http://torproject.org 

explore the deep web WARNING I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU SEARCH AND WHAT YOU FIND

 

http://mrdoob.com 

fun little things to play with

 

http://xkcd.com 

did i do this already? If not funny comics from an ex nasa scientist

 

Http://hacker-typer.com

want to type code? Use this website to protend that you can USE UBLOCK 

 

http://thisiswhyiambroke.com 

 

stupid things you can not afford

 

http://reddit.com

lose your life find your subreddit become a redditor today

 

http://4chan.org 

 

WARNING I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT BOARD YOU GO POTENTIALLY VERY NSFW

 

http://imgur.com 

reddits image hosting site with some of it's own content (reposts)

 

http://9gag.com 

for if you are twelve

 

is this enough? I can tell some more if you want

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I love to spend time reading - and turning blue from lack of oxygen because I'm laughing so hard - the Gallery of Regrettable Food. James Lileks is a chef, and has the odd hobby of collecting old cooking periodicals. He has a large list of bad cookbooks from the '40's though the '70's and writes hysterically funny write-ups on the offered recipes. I particularly like the 'Knudsen' section; I collapse in laughter every time. :)

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/

 

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This is more of an office toy in the same fashion as a drinking bird or a Newton's Cradle, but it's fun nonetheless to watch.

http://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/

http://rednuht.org/genetic_walkers/

The first one is a procedurally set of cars that spawn and change based on algorithms. There isn't much interactivity, all you can do is change the gravity for the most part. It's still fun to leave on over a week and watch.

The second is a set of bipedal walkers that try to walk based on an algorithm. This one has even less interactivity, but again like said above, it's fun to leave on and watch their progress.

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