Loading ...I thought I’d give you some more ways to waste time, online. 
Check out some of these sites:
- Web Sudoku: “Billions of free Sudoku puzzles to play online.” You can play levels from “Easy” to “Evil.” There’s even a downloadable application that you can play offline on your Mac or PC.
- Lookybook: If you’re a children’s librarian, you might be able to say this is work-related. This, in a sense, takes Amazon.com’s “Look Inside!” feature one step further, with children’s picture books. You can see the entire book online. You can post your own reviews of the books, and see what else you might like based on what you’re looking at.
- Wikisky: If you’re interested in astronomy, you could probably spend hours here. Imagine Google Maps, except it’s space.
- Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? The LHC might be offline for a good while, but you can check the status of existence anytime with this handy tool.
- MagMyPic: Create fake magazine covers with any photo. This site also recently added the ability to do comic book covers.
- Motivator: Similar to MagMyPic, but with motivational posters.
- MyHeritage Face Recognition: Upload a photo of yourself and this site will tell you what celebrity you look most like.
- Why You Should Continue to Date Me: A Series of Charts and Graphs.: I think the title says it all, here.
- Let Me Google That For You: Reference staff will appreciate this. ‘Nuff said.
- Internet Memes: Did you miss a viral video that everyone else seems to know about? Or want to see internet memes on a cool timeline? Very cool, but be warned that some videos are NSFW (Not Safe for Work).
If you want to waste time but not to feel guilty about it, try Free Rice. Test your vocabulary skills while earning rice that will be donated through the United Nations. (This game also warns right on the front page that it could improve your job performance. )
Happy holidays!
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It’s the day after Turkey Day. Obviously, not a day for deep thoughts or complex topics, since most of us are probably still zoned out from large quantities of comestibles. Therefore, LOLcats are the perfect subject for today’s post.
To understand the LOLcat phenomena, you first have to understand the idea of the internet meme. Chances are you’ve experienced one; you’ve been rickrolled, you’ve seen Chocolate Rain and the multiple spinoffs & parodies; the dancing baby, or even, going way back, HamsterDance. Memes are sometimes called “mind viruses;” basically, unusual ideas or themes that spread from person to person.
Wikipedia defines LOLcat as:
A lolcat is an image combining a photograph, most frequently of a cat, with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption in (often) broken English—a dialect which is known as “lolspeak,” ”kitteh,” or “kitty pidgin” and which parodies the poor grammar typically attributed to Internet slang. The name “lolcat” is a compound word of the phrase “LOL” and “cat”.
Not all LOLcats are actually cats, but nonetheless appear on the offical LOLcat site.
(Ok, I’m pretty certain that’s not a moose, but still cute)
Some of my personal favorites:
What does this mean to me, Laura?
- LOLcats have no practical use other than entertainment.
- You can get the latest LOLcat entries via RSS feeds.
- You can caption your own LOLcat pics or other people’s pics and also save your favorites.
- This is a prime example of what I call TMFTS (Too Much Free Time Syndrome).
- There are offshoots of the LOLcat meme, including a project to translate the Bible into LOLspeak and LOLCODE, a programming language based on LOLspeak.
(Thanks to Owen L. for the post idea!)
