I spent the first few weeks of summer working in an office, surfing the web and compiling useless links to occupy my time with. Then I got laid off. Now I have a lot more time to visit these sites.
1.) Lemonade Game (www.lemonadegame.com): As a child, I would stand outside at a lemonade stand on my sidewalk hawking Dixie cups of Country Time for ten cents a pop. Now, I go virtual. The graphics might be elementary and the income isn't real, but there's nothing quite like seasonally-themed procrastination.
2.) The Wayback Machine (www.archive.org): Google's cache might hold a record of a webpage from a few weeks ago, but the Wayback Machine goes, well, way back -- giving a glimpse of the evolution of the roughly 10 billion pages in its archives.
3.) Ebay (www.ebay.com): Everybody in the world probably already knows about ebay, but what they might not know is how querying obscure searches can be a source of hours of entertainment. It's amazing what people can sell for money. Fun game: search for "ugly doll" and try and judge which is, in fact, the ugliest.
4.) Exploding Dog (www.explodingdog.com): Amusing and surprisingly poignant (at times) stick-figures drawings by artist Sam Brown, who makes his drawings based on titles people e-mail him. They make excellent desktop wallpaper, too.
-Caroline Dube
