- Anheuser-Busch Parks
- Cedar Point
- Coney Island (of the West - Ohio Grove)
- Kings Dominion
- Kings Island
Comic
Electronic Games
- Abandonia
- Atari
- Chess
- Civilization
- Colonization
- Electronic Arts
- Final Fantasy
- Lemmings
- Lucas Arts
- Nintendo
- Pogo
- Sam and Max Hit the Road
- Sim City
- SC4D
- SimPeg
- Simtropolis
- Super Mario Brothers
- Tetris
- Twenty Questions
- Ultima
- Ultimate Arcade
- The World's Hardest Game
- Zelda
Games
Internet
- A.L.I.C.E.
- The Best Page in the Universe
- B3TA
- Fark
- Happy Tree Friends
- Homestar Runner
- I Am Better Than Your Kids
- I Do Dog Tricks
- The Onion
- Patently Silly
- Stuff White People Like
- Stupid Videos
- Subservient Chicken
- Super Mario Brothers: Communist Propaganda?
Movies
- Alien
- The Big Lebowski
- Blade Runner
- Bringing Up Baby
- Casablanca
- Chicken Run
- A Clockwork Orange
- Doctor Zhivago
- Empire of the Sun
- E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
- Forrest Gump
- Gallipoli
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- Gladiator
- Gone with the Wind
- Groundhog Day
- Hail the Conquering Hero
- The Incredibles
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Lawrence of Arabia
- The Lion King
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- The Matrix
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Pixar
- The Princess Bride
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Ratatouille
- Secondhand Lions
- Spartacus
- Star Wars: A New Hope
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
- Toy Story
- Toy Story 2
- Toy Story 3
- The Truman Show
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Up
- Vertigo
- La vita è bella
- WALL-E
- West Side Story
Television
- Absolutely Fabulous
- The Adventures of Pete and Pete
- Are You Being Served?
- Battlestar Galactica - New Series
- Comedy Central
- Doctor Who - Classic
- Doctor Who - New Series
- Fawlty Towers
- Firefly
- I Love Lucy
- Keeping Up Appearances
- Lost
- Malcolm in the Middle
- Merlin
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- The Muppet Show: Muppet Central
- Once Upon a Time
- Seinfeld
- The Simpsons
- The Simpsons Archive
- South Park
- The X-Files
Toys
AtomFun
There is need in human life for levity. So, enjoy your time here in leisurely frivolity, where no Puritan can condem you (except in the comments section, of course).Time Wasting
Leisure is an art (or so we tell ourselves)
Friday, May 7, A.D. 2010
Simpsons’ Character Recognition
It is Friday, the Brits have a hung parliament because David Cameron is a wussy, Tory-lite joke, and many of you are looking forward to the weekend. Here is a time waster game to take you through an afternoon break: “Can you name the characters from The Simpsons?”
Having been on the air for two decades, The Simpsons has populated Springfield rather fully. However, the game only asks you to identify sixty-three faces. Cake, eh?
Friday, February 27, A.D. 2009
I Do Dog Tricks
We are living in a time where waste and irresponsibility are celebrated and encouraged in public rhetoric and policy. In the spirit of the times, I offer an old Friday time waster—Heartgard’s I Do Dog Tricks. Simply follow the link and type whatever commands you wish for the little chap. It is cute and pointless . . . just what one needs in a time waster.
Saturday, October 4, A.D. 2008
Pomofo Essays
I love the internet; it offers us such a bounty of tawdry goods without end. Several years ago, I came upon the Postmodernism Generator, which is a fitting testament to the idiocy of reason’s enemies. The generator is a clever program that pieces together strings of postmodern catch phrases into something suggestive of cognitive human thought. Naturally, it must fall significantly short of logical argumentation or else the semblance to postmodern scholarship would be ruined and the parody would not hold.
Each time that you reload the page, the mindless code produces a new set of similarly senseless rubbish. You can find many precious gems. In this case, we get,
“Sexual identity is fundamentally a legal fiction,” says Sontag; however, according to la Fournier, it is not so much sexual identity that is fundamentally a legal fiction, but rather the futility of sexual identity. The subject is interpolated into a that includes language as a whole. But the premise of textual nationalism implies that class, perhaps surprisingly, has intrinsic meaning.”
The joy never ends!
The generator’s host site, Communications from Elsewhere, also links to Alan Sokal’s Social Text affair, which humiliated and outraged humanities departments for exposing them to be the misologic posers that they are.
Finally, sensible academic subversion . . .
on Saturday, October 4, Anno Domini 2008
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