Back to work? Depressing isn’t it? While your holiday may not have lasted quite as long as you’d imagined it would, there are ways and means of killing time until the next batch of time off. Here are our favourite time-wasters on the web…
1. Feedly
The thinking man’s web content aggregator. Feedly’s a web and mobile app, so if you want to view it on your pc you’ll need to use Google Chrome, but once you’re in you’re hooked. It’s your window into interesting design, top photography, amazing recipes and more.
If you read the Daily Mail in a state of bewildered confusion as to whether it’s actually satirical, this is the site for you. Always hilariously written, The Daily Mash takes today’s stories and spins them on their head. Think The Onion, but with a UK spin.
3. FML
If your day couldn’t get any worse, it’s time to regale yourself in the misery of others. FML lets people post their depressing daily stories like Facebook updates, if Facebook were anonymous and completely soul-destroying.
4. WonderHowTo
If you’ve got learning a new skill on your list of New Years’ resolutions, you need this website in your life. Pretty much everything a human could do is in there, all with detailed instructions. Think fire breathing could be your thing? No worries.
5. Miniclip
Games, and lots of ‘em. Miniclip is the web’s biggest vestibule for free online games is stocked with enough in the way of addicting titles to keep you going through all of 2012 and beyond.
6. Lamebook
One thing Facebook’s done over the past few years is make it increasingly evident that the majority of the world’s humans are completely insane. Lamebook goes one further – filtering out the sensible status’ to leave you with just the social network’s most head-scratching updates.
7. Vimeo
Get yourself off YouTube – there’s only so many videos of kittens your fragile mind can take. Vimeo represents the more intellectual side of the web’s videos, proffering a range of some of the finest in independently made short films.
8. Snopes
Did one of the munchkins really kill himself on the Wizard of Oz set? Does Coca Cola’s logo really represent a man smoking crack? Snopes is a tireless library of the world’s best urban legends and myths, categorised into true, false or… Well, Nobody knows.
9. Quick Meme
How to lose hours of your life and unleash your artistic side in one foul swoop? Get into the mesmerising world of online memes. Choose your picture from the meme stock and plaster your funny all over it. Then share and bask in the LOLZ.
10. Reddit
If you don’t know about Reddit, you should. It’s the best online resource for funny pictures, interesting user-generated content, links, videos and memes. Be very wary: once you’re in, you’re hooked forever.
