The Time Vacuum!

Need to take a study break, or kill some time? I figure that if you have gotten this far into my site you must be pretty bored, so here are some other places that will entertain you.

E-mail me if you have a link that you'd like to see on this site, or if there are any dead links below.

How long do you have?


1-5 minutes

Check out the Cool Site of the Day. Different every day!

Hmm...a realistic internet simulator? My record is 98--you need a good mouse!

Play Merriam-Webster's Word Game of the Day

Try one of Postcardchess's chess problems.

Take a look at Molecular Expressions' Powers of 10 tutorial. Amazing graphics as you zoom in from 10 million light years outside the Milky Way to look at a proton in a leaf on Earth.


5-10 minutes

You may have heard of flight simulators, but how about a paper airplane flight simulator?

Browser Wars! Fight for the supremacy of your web surfing software.

Watch the Zero Wing music video. All your base are belong to us!

Check out UserFriendly's Daily Static.

Play a relaxing game of checkers.


10-30 minutes

Tackle a few of William Wu's riddles. Some of them are killers!

Believe it or not, you can actually watch Star Wars over Telnet. It's longer than 30 minutes, but you won't watch the whole thing, right? Right?!!

Explore a Dave Barry column or two.

Encounter the engrossing Secret Diary of Aragorn Son of Arathorn. Tremendously funny!


30 minutes-1 hour

The Cartoon Network has a big selection of flash games...

If you're a Star Trek or Star Wars fan, check out The Furry Conflict. Need I say more?

Try to figure out Snarg. One of Matt and Noah's favorites!

Look around Keenspot Comics and find one (or more) that you like. You might become a regular reader!


1-2 hours

Are you a Sherlock Holmes fan? Check out the Lozenge and Hampshire mysteries. Can you solve the Case of the Dead Person?

Learn about the solar system from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab site. Fascinating, with beautiful images.

Somebody play Last Half of Darkness and tell me what it's like. It looks pretty cool.


An entire afternoon/evening/whatever

Check out all the cool titles at Gutenberg.net--very thorough! Searches by title tend to do better than searches by author, though.

Read a classical work

Download a computer game demo: Diablo, Diablo II, Starcraft, Age of Empires 2, Fallout, or Fallout Tactics


Arbitrarily long

Download the ultimate hands-free RPG: Progress Quest. You'll never be able to surpass Sir Shavesalot, my Demicanadian Ur-Paladin.

Download one or more old Zork games and have a go at them. Their historical significance is surpassed only by their entertainment value.

If you're into role-playing, take a look at Skotos; they have quite a few things to play around with, and they also sponsor Keenspot, surely a worthy cause.

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