It’s Friday! That means it’s slacking off time and we have five great sites to distract you from your work today in this week’s installment of Sites We Like! There’s the art of Captcha, a way to super-charge Spotify, dancing superheroes and a way to seem constantly connected to Facebook and Twitter even when you’re out in the real world. Read on!
Captchart
www.captchart.com
The most enigmatic of web phrases – the Captcha – has been baffling folk who’ve forgotten their password or simply want to register for some trendy web service for years. Now those odd combinations of words have been put to good use Captcha Cartoons! Captchart is a repository of the best surreal strips inspired by Captcha codes and brilliant with it.
Flush Tracker
www.flushtracker.com
Wondering where your poop pops off to when you drop the kids off at the pool? Wonder no longer, flush track follows your poop on its journey through the pipes to the sewage works. Both cool and more than a little bit unpleasant, Flush Tracker is this week’s guilty bookmark.
Spotibot
www.spotibot.com
Music discovery is still Spotify’s kryptonite, but this fun website mixes up playlists for your based on the name of a band you like. So Pandora plus Spotify, pretty much. Currently listening to: the Pokemon Christmas album.
TheLXD.com
www.thelxd.com
This is a web-only series from Jon M. Chu, the maker of Step Up films. Don’t let that put you off: it’s got stupidly good dancing, mad body popping and superhuman front, back, and sideways flips all tied up in an unlikely story of superheroes and high school. Addictive.
Later Bro
www.laterbro.com
Want to seem ultra-switched on without staying tethered to Facebook and Twitter? Use Later Bro. It lets you schedule tweets and status updates for the future so you’ll seem connected to the social whirl even when you’re sleeping or even, you know, out doing things.
