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The 15 Best Places to Waste Time on the Web

pcworld.com — It's first thing in the morning and you're at the office. You're sipping your coffee and sifting through e-mail, but you're not quite ready to delve into the real work of the day. So what are you gonna do? Fire up your Web browser and distract yourself by wasting time on the Internet.

Who dugg this? Made popular Dec 13, 2006

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  • PatrickFisher, on 10/12/2007, -11/+257Where the hell is digg?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+70But seriously..where's Wikipedia...Surely I'm not the only person who wastes hours learning about completely pointless stuff.
  • tafkase7en, on 10/12/2007, -9/+78What a crappy list...
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+73no Digg = no digg
  • Fission, on 10/12/2007, -5/+59No Digg on the list but Reddit somehow manages to get there... What is that?
  • esthero, on 10/12/2007, -5/+49Print version http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,128122/printable.html
  • mcnugget, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44That list itself was a waste of time...
  • RichPowers, on 10/12/2007, -13/+52My list

    #1-15: Digg.com
  • aussieaubs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34don waste ur time clicking thru - here it is

    1. YouTube.com
    2. Craigslist.org
    3. Fark.com
    4. The Internet Movie Database
    5. Flickr.com
    6. Reddit.com
    7. Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D Beta
    8. Triplets and Us
    9. RuneScape
    10. Rotten Tomatoes
    11. Moola.com
    12. AOL In2TV
    13. HOT or NOT
    14. Pogo.com
    15. What Would Tyler Durden Do?
  • ers35, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32#16:

    Having to press buttons on the bottom to read all of an article.
  • rideagain, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Site shoves big intrusive ads in front of the article = bleh. No dig from me.
    Thanks for the print link, though.
  • krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -5/+25it seems i must be missing where it lists digg and slashdot. they must be covered by these ads.
  • SelfAbortion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18@PatrickFisher

    It was usurped by Reddit, but it at least gets a mention in that paragraph.
  • GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -11/+27ahem *cough* slashdot ¬_¬
  • Shadewell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Its PC World no wonder its such a crappy list.
  • NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18FARK is on here but Digg is not? And what about bash.org? I call *****.
  • jsd8cc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12The fact that we're here should indicate that we don't need any advice on how to waste time on the internet.
  • sdphost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12no Wikipedia? i can waste hours on that.
  • broXc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15It's missing YTMND.
  • ptrcd003, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9But Runescape at least made it...all those wasted nights..
  • warmonger48, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Do I digg a list of websites for wasting time that doesn't include DIGG....hmmm....maybe I should be getting back to work....
  • remo2012, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Youtube?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktPnYRTH6OQ
  • Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Boo ***** hoo, no digg. It's mentioned, isn't that good enough?
    I'm not a digg basher (by any means), I'm just sick and tired of the X vs X wars. Sigh.
  • betterth, on 10/12/2007, -9/+13No Digg? No digg.
  • otheruser, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Uh?

    Runescape? IMDB?

    Retarded as hell list.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3nearly every web filter blocks somethingawful, not fark
  • justnisdead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3one site:

    http://popurls.com/
  • mt066, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3YES, Best of Craigslist! It's all the best stuff selected from millions and millions of Craigslist posts. I have wasted many a company hour on there. A lot of it is social commentary rants though, which can get a little old. But it's like a bottomless pit of posts.
  • shmatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4jesus, now I have to navigate a pop-up menu just to see the rest of the article. Who the hell thought of that?
  • HaggisMac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My daily reads, in no particular order:
    Digg, Fark, Slashdot, Neowin, Engadget, Sci Fi Wire, Hollywood Reporter, Egotastic, Idon'tLikeYouInThatWay, PerezHilton, and lots of blogs from friends and those i've discovered through them.

    For the record, Fark is the #1 time waster for me, but Digg is coming close due to faster submissions. Digg is where I go for real information, Fark is where I go to laugh and be a snarky ***** like the rest.
  • phir0002, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2no digg = lame
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRUJFfgRcqI
  • forgetmenots, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2After I check digg some days at work, I just feel that the rest of the web is inadequate. I'm better off not knowing those all exist.
  • MforMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I just spent 3.5 hours going through those, so I guess they were right.
  • Freakwilly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Digg isn't on their top 15. I set this as lame. lol
  • historyfool24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Digg is one big chunk of my day, i wonder if thats sad or not
  • yllabianbitpipe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2These sites that offer up a top ten list where each item is on a separate page is really starting to annoy me.
  • merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3No one reads /b/ at work.
  • BradC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thanks to the WebSense used by my company, I can get to about 3 of those sites. Yay!
  • MisterCookie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Fark got on there? Well, I guess the site is a waste of time...
  • Splitt3rxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1they put runescape but not digg? INNACURATE!!!!
  • wassah2200, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dugg down because of no digg.
  • Ashkc88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.virtualnes.com > Triplets and Us
    Half of the games on Triplets and Us don't work or are very buggy. Very very bad list...I haven't spent more than 20 minutes on any of those sites (besides Runescape and Youtube of course).
  • bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The list does suck, but I was intrigued by the thought of being able to watch old 70's sitcoms and checked out the AOL Television link they suggested. Once there I found a link to the George Carlin Show, which used to air on FOX. Great I thought, then I received this:

    "We're sorry, content protected by Digital Rights Management is not available on the Macintosh."

    If a web site is useless to say, up to 10% of the population (those who don't run Windows, not just us Mac people), it's not good.

    Oh, and FARK became passé about two years ago.
  • MSTK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone have an invite to moola?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Glad to see eBaums at least got mentioned in it.
  • neutrascrub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wtf? no digg or ytmnd.com?
  • imran7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Photosynth is so cool
  • WoahPuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1gross
  • merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?u=digg.com&u=reddit.com

    Funny how they both spike at the same time, in mid april 06. At any rate, digg beats the crap out of reddit.

    Personally, my list is:
    Digg fark slashdot boingboing thedailywtf
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