Bored... with a computer handy

[tcrudisi]

Pretend it's mid-December 2009. Quite possibly there is a lot of snow outside, making it dangerous to leave the house. There's really not much to do, so you check all your favorite websites... several dozen times. Suddenly, you just need something new to do. Hence, this thread.

We all have a computer and internet access, so share your favorite websites (obviously, giantitp doesn't count as we are already here!) The internet is a very big place and I'm sure that with our collective surfing experiences, we can find some new and interesting sites to browse when not reading OotS or the GitP forums.

And just to remind everyone of the forum policy:

Commercial (For-Profit) Advertising
Posting advertisements for commercial products, services, or events will result in an immediate ban, and all advertisements removed. Note that a suggestion of a product in the course of a related discussion is not considered advertising (unless the poster holds a personal stake in the finances of the company suggested).
Don't do that. :smalltongue:

[madtinker]

Motorcycles (http://www.650rider.com/) are cool! Especially old Yamahas!

[Serpentine]

Cracked (www.cracked.com).

A good game (http://www.addictinggames.com/untangle.html) for those with OCD.

Comixed. (http://comixed.com/)

Cheezburgers (http://icanhascheezburger.com/), etc.

Your Average Life (http://mylifeisaverage.com/).

Customers are dumb (http://mylifeisaverage.com/).

That'll do for now.

[Moff Chumley]

4chan.

Or TVTropes if you value your dignity.

[Lioness]

And your sanity...

xkcd (www.xkcd.com)

Mystery Google (www.mysterygoogle.com)

My Life is Average (mylifeisaverage.com)

And various other forums.

[Ozreth]

I frequent...

Myspace
Twitter
Facebook
MMORPG.com (A home for players of online RPGs such as WoW and EQ)
FFXIVcore (Fan site and forums for the upcoming Final Fantasy MMORPG)
Crackberry Forums (For blackberry users)
Demonoid (Torrent sharing)

Those all seem very hobby specific to myself, so I doubt they will help you. When Im not doing that Im either writing, playing video games (mostly on my computer), or inventing d&d stuff.

You should really get into the MMORPG genre if you arent already. Good way to pass time, stay social, and get your gaming itch in. For starters you could try out Dungeons and Dragons Online as it is free to play now.

[SurlySeraph]

Armor Games (http://armorgames.com/category/action), for all your time-wasting flash game needs. I particularly recommend The Last Stand, The Last Stand 2, Green Bomber, and Juggerdome.

FML (http://www.fmylife.com/), for an endless litany of complaints.

Click the link that says "Special:Random" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Random)

Cute Overload (http://cuteoverload.com/). After an hour you won't be physically capable of making noises other than "D'AWWWW."

SurvivalBlog (http://www.survivalblog.com/) (warning: occasional wingnut politics, frequent paranoia) for when you're in the exact opposite mood of the mood that makes you go to Cute Overload.

Sporcle (http://www.sporcle.com/), which can be even more time-devouring than TV Tropes.

Rational Wiki (http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page), for science, refutations of pseudoscience, and partisan politics.

Webcomics can be a great time waster; some good ones are:
- XKCD (stick figures + nerd jokes)
- 8-Bit Theater ("how the world is saved by the four individuals least willing and least capable of doing so")
- Penny Arcade (the video game webcomic that all the others try to live up to)
- Dr. McNinja (the adventures of a doctor who is also a ninja, and that conceptis the least ridiculous thing in the entire story)
- Dinosaur Comics (a T-Rex and a Utahraptor discuss philosophy and other things)
- Wondermark (Victorian-era illustrations + odd family dynamics)
- Red Meat (kinda hard to explain)

[Gaelbert]

4chan.

Or TVTropes if you value your dignity.

I really don't understand why 4chan has such a bad rep. Yes, it has a fair amount of porn, but if you can get past that and have a thick skin, it's hilarious.

[B-Man]

A good game (http://www.addictinggames.com/untangle.html) for those with OCD.

Awww, Serpentine! Why'd you link that?!? I can't stop playing it (again)! :smalleek:

[Bhu]

Lets see what havent I posted...

0:00 http://0.kdn.jp/eindex.html
2D3DCG http://www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood-Kouen/9693/
2x3 Computer Graphics http://redjuice.cside.ne.jp/
551094 http://5932.tripod.com/
AB's Homepage http://homepage.mac.com/abworks/
Aetherality http://gallery.aethereality.net/
Amanek beware popups http://page.freett.com/amanek/
Anatomia Barocca http://www.interq.or.jp/pluto/yuyu/yu/
Apocrypha http://apocrypha.cside.com/
Are You Me http://areyoume.net/
Aroasfoo http://www.aroasfoo.com/
Asian Art http://www.asianart.com/index.html
Back Yard Built http://www.backyardbuilt.sakura.ne.jp/
Beaker http://user.kacl.co.kr/beaker/
Berry Narcotic http://www.berry84.org/
Bezi http://bezi.sakura.ne.jp/
Blackmoontides http://www.blackmoontides.com/
Blue Quartz http://sae13.fc2web.com/
Botsuegamaki http://www.interq.or.jp/japan/hosystem/
Broken Workshop http://www.brokenworkshop.com/
Casual Villain http://casualvillain.com/
Cat and Fish http://catking.cside.com/
Channel 301 http://301.lomo.jp/
Chihaya's Blank Papers http://sun-tree.net/chihaya/
Chiho Aoshima http://www.blumandpoe.com/chihoaoshima/
Chun-TOng http://nkshp.m78.com/
Circle Heron http://homepage1.nifty.com/heron/framepage.htm
Colony One http://www.din.or.jp/~c-o/
Commkia http://comicker.hp.infoseek.co.jp/
Compeito http://www.rydia.net/~kitsune/
Cowbell Tiara http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/cowbell/
Cowral http://susuki.sakura.ne.jp/~cowral/
Crimson http://www.elf-art.net/
Cybermangazine japanese comics translated into several languages http://cybermanga.com/
D.K.S. Web http://dks-web.lomo.jp/
DJ Nommy http://www.geocities.com/djnommy/
DRS http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~ark/index.htm
Da Garou http://yam.edisc.jp/dagaro/
Daichan Mona http://www.geocities.jp/daichan_mona/
Dangerous Princess beware popups http://www.geocities.co.jp/AnimeComic-Ink/4175/
Dark Design http://www.xcerver.com/
Demento http://www005.upp.so-net.ne.jp/morisawa/
Demon Company http://demon.x0.com/demoncom/
Digital Vitamin http://www2.plala.or.jp/yuri_t/dds/
Dogmatist http://www.dogmatist.ws/
Down + Down http://down.2-d.jp/
EPU http://gucce.ciao.jp/index2.html
Ef http://spider.mods.jp/top.html
Enigma http://arc.egoism.jp/
Exit http://ntjank7.pekori.to/noiz/
FSC http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/%7Efsc/
Fantasy Illustration http://www.fides.dti.ne.jp/~wazzo/
Fioretti http://kachiru.org/
Fragile http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~jh7a-sezk/
Frontier Factory http://ffact.com/
G. Owariya http://www.astro88.com/owariya/
Ganso Oyajikko http://rigoletto.fc2web.com/
Gensui Holic http://hx.sakura.ne.jp/~nikki/gen.htm
Grananda Level 9 http://ww2.tiki.ne.jp/%7Ekuroboshi/
Guidemap http://www.elanblade.com/guidemap/index.html
Guild House http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~miwaza/
Hi-Fi Graffitti http://h-g.cside.com/
Hippo http://www6.ocn.ne.jp/%7Eno.28/
Holy Garden http://www.o-nigiri.com/hg/
Japonica Rakugakityou http://aspara.cside21.com/
Junk Painting http://www.big.or.jp/%7Eyoshio/
K.O.S. http://www10.plala.or.jp/type11ds/
KPLC http://kapolo.syste.ms/
KYMG http://kymg.net/
Kazuko http://kzk-t.com/
Kazuo Miyamura http://www.din.or.jp/%7Eabara/menu.html
Kine in Aqua http://user.chollian.net/%7Enkine82/
Kiracna Days http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/haru0/
Kunihiko Tanaka http://www3.tky.3web.ne.jp/%7Er4kmt/
Lian Quan Zhen http://www.lianspainting.com/
M. M. M. Works Online http://mmm-gee.cool.ne.jp/
M. Matter http://munku.sunnyday.jp/
M1A1 Omega2D http://www.aa.alpha-net.ne.jp/miuring/
Maggi's Harem http://maggi.new21.net/
Magnet Pencil http://wrzv.hp.infoseek.co.jp/
Mangetsu http://paintworker.com/mangetsu/
Mars Exchanger http://mex-co.cside5.com/
Maxx Soul http://www.maxxsoul.com/
Michsugara http://www.kct.ne.jp/%7Ehayapy/
Min-min http://www16.ocn.ne.jp/~sshu/
Narashino Zoe http://at.sakura.ne.jp/~zoe/
Nasca On http://homepage3.nifty.com/m-nasca/
Neoclassic http://www.agasang.org/main.htm
Netone Visions http://www3.tky.3web.ne.jp/~r4kmt/
Noise Factory http://www12.ocn.ne.jp/%7Ewaxel/
Nori: Q http://www.sol.dti.ne.jp/~kochi/
Nox http://nox.new21.net/
Ohariko http://yuqa.mys.jp/
Okama http://okama.nicomi.com/
Okawari http://okawari_free.at.infoseek.co.jp/
Oku no Taido http://ww91.tiki.ne.jp/~sion/
Osarupankari http://www.ztv.ne.jp/yune/
PSE Web http://www.pseweb.com/
Paint Station http://kome.sakura.ne.jp/na2/
Papageno http://cosmoaxis.fakefur.jp/papagenotop.html
R1' http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~a-kou/
Raizin http://hinoki.sakura.ne.jp/~raizin/
Rami http://www.ki.rim.or.jp/%7Ehato/
Rikudokan http://www.rikudoukan.com/menu.htm
Rindgulth http://www3.cds.ne.jp/~okito/#
Rize 50 mg http://www.momiji.sakura.ne.jp/~rize/
Ryuten Online http://atelier.mangazoo.jp/%7Etatsu-n/
Sai Rin http://sai-rin.jp/
Sakurako Zyubara http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/sakurako-zyabara/
Saltshaker http://www.alles.or.jp/%7Es2r/
Scape http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~hiko/
Senri Kita http://www.xt.sakura.ne.jp/%7Eyan/scribble/top.html
Service Area Son http://www31.ocn.ne.jp/%7Esonoka/
Shipirika http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/shipirka/
Signal http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/signal/index.html
Soy Bean http://soybean3.s60.xrea.com/frame.html
Suidengetsu http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/suiden/
Suigyo Nomajiwari http://tamaxxx.egoism.jp/
Tada Yumi http://www.yo.rim.or.jp/%7Efudge/
Taiheiraku http://taiheiraku.fc2web.com/
Takamichi http://www.amy.hi-ho.ne.jp/takamichi/
Tatoom City http://www.tatoomcity.net/
Tenra Banshou http://migi.moo.jp/
Tetsuro Kasahara http://www.din.or.jp/%7Ete2/
Third Strike http://www.clear-rain.net/mei/
Tk's World http://hccweb5.bai.ne.jp/tks-world/menu.htm
Tokinotane http://homepage3.nifty.com/k_suba/
Tom Tom http://tomtom.byus.net/
Tomrun http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~tomrun/
Toshiyaki Takayama http://www.h3.dion.ne.jp/%7et.com/
Try and Error http://www.sam.hi-ho.ne.jp/~tohru_k/
Valldies http://www.wild-swans.net/valldie/
Wandbilt http://www20.big.or.jp/~a-fun/
Westvill Graphics http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/~westvill/
Witch's Cradle http://witch.magical-art.com/
Yamada Prison http://yotsuba.saiin.net/~trill/
Yohako no Tokoro http://yohaku.maybe.jp/
Yokaj Studio http://www.yokajstudio.com/
Yomichi http://nemot.eek.jp/
You Shiina http://www1.odn.ne.jp/tenkyudho/
Yougado http://yougado.chips.jp/
Yukioh http://www.alpha-net.ne.jp/users2/yukioh/
Yuuri http://yuuri.happy.nu/
Zuga-Kosoku http://www.ne.jp/asahi/plasma/jungle/

A Cajun Family's Recipe Collection http://www.cajun-recipes.com/
A Cajun Home Page http://www.coonass.com/
A Taste of Creole http://www.atasteofcreole.com/recipes.html
A Taste of Louisiana http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/3076/
Arnaud's Recipes http://www.arnauds.com/recipes.html
B and T Seafood A store, but it does have a nice recipe section http://www.crawfish.cc/
Cajun http://recipes2.alastra.com/cajun/
Cajun Cookery http://cajuncookery.esmartweb.com/recipes.html
Cajun Cooking Recipes http://www.cajuncookingrecipes.com/
Cajun Don's Hideaway Recipes http://www.angelfire.com/tx/cajundon/recipes.htm
Cajun Recipes http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/mjw/recipes/ethnic/cajun/
Cajun Shop http://www.cajun-shop.com/cajunandcreolerecipes.htm
Cajun and Creole Dishes do not accept crescendo update http://www.jbotti.com/cookcajn.htm
Chef John Folse and Company http://www.jfolse.com/
Chef Paul Prudhomme http://www.chefpaul.com/index.html
Chef Rick's Southern Cooking http://chefrick.com/index.html
Cooking Louisiana http://www.cookinglouisiana.com/
CreoleMan http://www.creoleman.com/recipes/recipes.html
Great Cajun Cooking http://www.greatcajuncooking.com./
Gumbo Gators http://roxannestutes.tripod.com/authenti.htm
Gumbo Town http://www.pannett.com/gumbo.html
Gumbos, Bisques, and Soups http://www.gumbopages.com/food/soups/
Home Almanac http://www.geocities.com/alf707/littleitaly/
Hungry Cajun Foods http://www.hungrycajun.net/pages/596632/index.htm
Jambalaya Pots http://www.jambalayapots.com/jp_recipes.html
Jester's Cajun Recipes http://www.jestermg.com/recipes.htm
Justin Wilson http://www.justinwilson.com/
Louisiana Foods http://www.louisianafoods.com/recipes/
Louisiana Recipes http://www.louisianarecipes.com/
Maisson Louisiana's Creole Recipes http://www.shutmymouth.com/html/creole_recipes.html
Mardi Gras Recipes http://jestermg.com/recipes.htm
Mason Dixon Spice Company http://www.mdspice.com/menu.html
New Orleans Cuisine http://www.gatewayno.com/cuisine/cuisine.html
New Orleans Recipes http://www.neworleansweb.org/recipes.html
New Orleans Recipes http://www.experienceneworleans.com/recipes.html
Official Mardi Gras King Cake Recipe http://www.soulard.com/renaissance/mardi97/kingcake.html
Real Cajun Recipes http://www.realcajunrecipes.com/
Red Fish Grill http://www.redfishgrill.com/recipes.php
Schuyler's Louisiana Cajun-Creole Cooking http://www.geocities.com/schuyler_porche/food.htm
Southern US Cuisine, Gumbo beware popups http://southernfood.about.com/library/weekly/aa101297.htm
Southern US Cuisine, Jambalaya http://www.southernfood.about.com/cs/jambalaya/
The Creole and Cajun Recipe Page http://www.gumbopages.com/recipe-page.html
VB Gumbo http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/1436/
Western Fisheries Gumbo Recipes http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/wf/ss/ss96aut.html

Albedo http://homepage.eircom.net/~goudriaan/
All Things Zombie http://www.allthingszombie.com/
Alternate History Discussion Board http://www.alternatehistory.com/
American Kaiju http://www.americankaiju.kaijuphile.com
An International Catalogue of Superheroes http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/nonus.htm
Analogue Science Fiction and Fact http://www.analogsf.com/
Ansible http://news.ansible.co.uk/
Arkham House http://www.arkhamhouse.com/
Ashton Press http://ashtonpress.net/
Asimov's Science Fiction http://www.asimovs.com/
Baharna http://baharna.com/default.htm
Best SF http://www.bestsf.net/
Beyond Books http://www.beyond-books.com/
BloopWatch http://www.bloopwatch.org/
Brian Lumley http://www.brianlumley.com/
British Fantasy Society http://www.britishfantasysociety.org.uk/
Bruce Turlish http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/6140/
Chaos Magick http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/cthulhu.php
Cthulhu http://www.cthulhu.org/index.html
Cthulhu Lives http://www.cthulhulives.org/TOC.html
Cthulhu Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu
Cthuugle http://www.cthuugle.com/
Dagonbytes http://www.dagonbytes.com/flashindex.html
Dark Wisdom http://www.darkwisdom.com/darkwisdom.htm
Draconian http://www.draconian.com/home/frameset.htm
E-Fanzines http://www.efanzines.com/
ERBList http://www.erblist.com/
Elvira http://www.elvira.com/
Emerald City Fantasy and Science Fiction http://www.emcit.com/
Everything Scary http://www.everythingscary.com/
Famous Monsters of Film Land http://www.famousmonsters.com/
Fantastik Online in German http://www.fantastik-online.de/
Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions http://www.sfwa.org/writing/worldbuilding1.htm
Flames Rising http://www.flamesrising.com/
Gears http://www.gearsonline.net/
Googoth http://www.googoth.com/
H.P. Lovecraft FR in French http://www.hplovecraft-fr.com/
HPL Wiki http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Howard_Phillips_Lovecraft
Horror Writers Association http://www.horror.org/
Infinity Plus http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/
Jim Rage's Elite Zombie Hunting Squad http://www.jimrage.com/
Kaiju Big Battel http://www.kaiju.com/home.htm
LOCUS Online http://www.locusmag.com/
Lost Souls http://www.clivebarker.com/
Lovecraft Country http://www.lovecraftcountry.com/comic/
Lyda Morehouse http://www.mninter.net/%7Esprounds/Lyda.htm
Mecha Hub http://www.flickr.com/groups/mechahub/
Mecha Support Teams Webring http://d.webring.com/hub?ring=badkarma
Mecha Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecha
Miskatonic University http://www.miskatonic.net/
Monster Blog http://monsterblog.oneroom.org/
Monster in My Pocket http://www.toyarchive.com/MIMP/MonsterInMyPocket.html
Monstropedia http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Monstrous http://www.monstrous.com/
Necrobones Mythos Creation http://necrobones.com/mythos/
Necronomicon 2 http://www.strayreality.com/Lanis_Strayreality/necronomicon2.htm
Neil Gaiman http://www.neilgaiman.com/
Neldoreth http://alatosmanveru.freeservers.com/index.html
Nth Degree http://www.nthzine.com/
Pellucidar Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellucidar
Redwall Abbey http://www.redwall.org/
Redwall.net http://www.redwall.net/
Robert Hood http://www.roberthood.net/index.htm
S-P-O-N-G-E http://s-p-o-n-g-e.com/
SF Lovers http://sflovers.org/
SF Site http://www.sfsite.com/
SFF World http://www.sffworld.com/
SFWA http://www.sfwa.org/
SFX http://www.sfx.co.uk/
Sad Geezers Guide to Cult SciFi http://www.sadgeezer.com/
SciFi Network http://www.scifi.com/
Science Fiction Continuum http://www.sfcontinuum.com/
Science Fiction Crows Nest http://www.computercrowsnest.com/
Science Fiction Resources http://cinemaspace.berkeley.edu/Resources/scifi2.html
Scifi Source http://www.scifisource.com/
Servants of Tulzcha http://members.shaw.ca/csstrowbridge/Tulzscha/MainPage.htm
Slackers Sci-Fi Source http://www.whataslacker.com/scifi/
Snaiad http://www.nemoramjet.com/snduterus.html
Space Westerns http://www.spacewesterns.com/
Speculative Visions http://www.speculativevision.com/
Stan Nicholls http://herebedragons.co.uk/nicholls/
Star Asciimation Wars http://www.asciimation.co.nz/
Star Destroyer http://www.stardestroyer.net/toc.html
Star Wreck http://www-fi3.starwreck.com/
Stare http://www.incunabula.org/stare/
Starship Dimensions http://www.merzo.net/
Surnateum http://www.surnateum.org/index.html
Tarzan.org http://www.tarzan.org/
The British Science Fiction Association http://www.bsfa.co.uk/
The Corellian Embassy http://www.somerescue.com/
The Dracula Library http://www.cesnur.org/dracula_library.htm
The Eldritch Dark http://www.eldritchdark.com/
The Encyclopedia of Arda http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.asp
The H.P. Lovecraft Archive http://www.hplovecraft.com/
The Insidious Bogleech http://www.bogleech.com/
The Little Sisters of the Tentacled Mortification http://community.livejournal.com/cthulhu_nunnery/
The Night Wire http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Night_Wire
The Redwall Encyclopedia http://www.sullivanet.com/redwall/
The Saturn Awards http://www.saturnawards.org/
The Science Fiction Foundation http://www.sf-foundation.org/
The Seventh Voyage http://theseventhvoyage.com/
The Speculative Dinosaur Project http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0000265/Spec/index.html
The Temple of Dagon http://www.templeofdagon.com/
The Undead Report http://www.undeadreport.com/
The Watchers Zone: Vampires http://www.delcarsdungeon.com/mels/Vampire/vampires.htm
There and Back Again http://www.thereandbackagain.net/
Trouver Object Cache in French http://www.tentacules.net/index.php
Von Horsts Pellucidar http://www.bouncepage.com/Pellucidar/pellucidar.html
Zombie Squad http://zombiehunters.org/

Lemme know when you make your way thru these and ill post more :smallwink:

[smellie_hippie]

It's always enterainting to look at Demotivators (http://www.despair.com/)