6 Time-Wasting Internet Tips
Waste time, make time. The University of Melbourne found that workers who used the Internet for personal reasons were 9 percent more productive than those who didn’t. And doesn’t everyone deserve a five-minute vacation every once in a while, especially now that summer is over?
from Reader's Digest | October 2009
1. Jacksonpollock.org lets you make drip art with your cursor.
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2. Find artful, calming, even transformative videos-the kind you’d see in theaters that sell carrot cake instead of Mike and Ikes-on vimeo.com. It’s the foreign-film equivalent of YouTube.
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3. People who don’t know how to use quotation marks use them with abandon, and the signs they create are hilariously cataloged, then mercilessly mocked at unnecessaryquotes.com.
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4. Follow your money across the country. Type in the serial number of a bill at wheresgeorge.com and watch it travel through what’s left of the U.S. monetary system.
(Washington and Lincoln) Stock Montage/Getty Images; (Roosevelt) Ashe/National Archives/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images; (Obama) Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images
5. See all 44 U.S. presidents morph from George Washington to Barack Obama in under four minutes-to Ravel’s Boléro. Go to flixxy.com and search for “presidents morph.”
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6. Balls drop and ping across the computer screen. You control where they go with barriers that you draw with your cursor. Download free at balldroppings.com.
