Monday, January 7, 2008

Bored Site List

A little while ago, I emailed many friends asking them for any website they knew of that could help me occupy my time while bored at work. My brother Seth recommended reading the Bible online only, which his good friend Will echoed, but here is the list of sites recommended from all sorts of people and a short description of the site. If you have sites to add, please email me and let me know!!


Miscellaneous:

http://www.ratingpets.com/ - you rate other people's pet.

www.normandcompany.com/STICKMAN - stickman murder mystery game.

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/ - recipes, articles

http://www.i-am-bored.com/ - all sorts of random time wasters

http://www.foundmagazine.com/ - interesting collection of things 'found'

http://www.freerice.com/ - donate rice with your intelligence

http://www.postsecret.blogspot.com/ - ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard


Informational:

http://www.askville.com/ - powered by amazon, this is like yahoo answers. Ask and answer questions on any topic you can think of

http://www.howstuffworks.com/ - everythings on this site!

http://www.slickdeals.net/ - postings of web dealz and other random freebies/sales

http://www.maps.google.com/ - some people enjoy looking at google satellite images

http://www.bargainist.com/ - full of coupons, freebies, and sale news

http://www.snopes.com/ - Snopes is a searchable database of urban legends and myths, email hoaxes, computer virus warnings, and folklore.

www.thethriftshopper.com/index.htm - thriftshopping secrets

http://www.currentcodes.com/ - coupon codes


Focused Group:

http://www.hitchedmag.com/ - website targeted to married people (has great party planning tips)

http://www.makeupalley.com/ - all sorts of make up info

http://www.imdb.com/ - a must have for every movie lover


Food/Recipes:

www.kraftfoods.com/kf - recipes

http://www.allrecipes.com - recipes


Spiritual:

www.stevepavlina.com/index.htm - very "new age" but interesting and inspiring

http://www.yuvalla.com/ - Website based on wellness, in all forms. I mostly use them for their daily quotes. I love to start my day by opening my inbox and reading a short, simply sentence that's enlightening and uplifting.

http://www.ihop.org/ - prayer, not pancakes

http://www.biblegateway.com/ - the Bible

http://www.christianity.com/


Regional:

www.cleveland.com/ - jobs, restaurants, news, the works! Should be supplemented with the following website www.pluggedincleveland.com/ and cleveland.craigslist.org/

http://www.dailycandy.com/ - They don't have one for Cleveland, but they have many for other major cities and then and "everywhere" one. It's just cool new things for women -- food, shopping, culture, etc. An excellent and cute way for new small businesses to word-of-mouth. It's a pretty well known thing here (Chicago).


Humor:

www.youtube.com/results?search_query=coach+hines&search=Search --this is a GREAT website for fun and laughs...no kids allowed, though.

http://www.theonion.com/ (2 recommendations) - good for a laugh, nothing better than sarcastic, fake news

http://www.leasticoulddo.com/ - comic


Blogs:

http://www.blessingsoflove.blogspot.com/ - Donna's blog with links to lots of other stuff

http://www.livingproofministries.blogspot.com/ - Beth's blog

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