[OT] In search of a good time waster.

[Ashrem Bayle]

Anybody seen any good online games lately?

Where was that little golf game?

Can you tell I'm at work?

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Salutations,

This is not a game, but a cool site to read old authors (especially of horror) that are not well known-

http://www.blackmask.com/

FD

 

[Zog]

www.baen.com

They have Lots of their novels on-line. Most of the Honor series. Most of Eric Flint's books. Lots of good stuff.

Also preview chapters for everything they release.

You can spend Lots of time there. And it looks vaguely like work, as you are clearly reading something....

 

[Heretic Apostate]

Liquide's online Pong game:

http://www.liquid.se/pong.html

 

[galaga88]

It's not a game, but The Straight Dope can provide many hours and hours of fascinating reading, well sprinkled with doses of The Encyclopedia Mythica to help waste away the time.

 

[Crothian]

I always thought going through the thousands of posts here and delving into the less used forums was a good time waster.

 

[Jamdin]

Mini-putt game can be found at http://www.ratatak.com/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=1305&page_id=15

 

[Pielorinho]

http://zone.msn.com/texttwist/ -- an addictive word game.

I second the Straight Dope -- it's fantastically cool.

Another fascinating site: Snopes has the scoop on every urban legend and email spam you've heard of, and about a bajillion you haven't heard of.

Daniel

 

[Chaldfont]

The Onion!

The Onion!

See how long it takes you to find a D&D reference. It should not take you long. Especially if you can find Bill Gates' character sheet.

 

[Mark]

Re: In search of a good time waster.

In search of a good time waster.

Have you tried D&D?

Actually, here's some non-game fun that will eat up time if you like-

http://www.sodaplay.com/

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

http://www.hiddendoors.com/index.htm

http://www.twainquotes.com/

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/index.html

http://www.gh.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/test.html