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September 27, 2008

The 10 best time-wasting websites

Make your day fly with pointless but fun sites

Yardena Arar

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Whether you want to escape work for a few minutes or you're simply filling time online while waiting for your favourite TV programme, here's our round-up of the 10 best time-wasting sites that will help you while away the hours.

7. Homestar Runner

Can you say 'cult favourite'? Not only do the weird and wacky animated inhabitants of this site appear in a slew of exceedingly retro-style games (we're talking blocky graphics and text), but they also take on a life of their own in toons, podcasts, downloads, and even their own video biographies. It's the sort of bizarre creativity that could thrive only online.

Homestar Runner

8. Spirograph

Manipulate the maths and colours at Wordsmith.org's Spirograph page to generate kaleidoscope-like patterns, ad nauseam - just like when you were a child.

Spirograph

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