Pointless Websites

My last entry was about random ideas and funny things you can accomplish when you are bored and are looking for something to do. In this entry, I will continue talking about unusual ways in which you can engage yourself – but this time, I will give you pointless websites which you can go at.

  

Curiosity is something none of us can ignore. At least once, we have all experienced the frustration of  wanting to know what is being hidden from us, wanting to find out more, and, ultimately, wanting to know the unknown. This small, slightly frustrating game will definitely turn your curiosity on: your main objective is to open the door to figure out who is ringing the doorbell. Though the game is pointless – it does save you from devastating boredom. (Have your sound on in your computer while playing).

 http://www.biglongnow.com/

The following brief game is very similar to the previous one– slightly more provoking. Instead of a door, this game has a paper roll: the objective is to try to unroll it. Beware – it is not as easy as it sounds!  Good luck!

http://www.papertoilet.com/

I earn you that the following game is extremely addicting!  The point to the game is to try to click the space bar as many times as you can, and try to beat your personal record every time. Before playing, you choose either 5, 10, or 20 seconds, and then you will have the time you have chosen to simply click space as many times as you possibly can.

http://www.zimm-co.com/PressTheSpaceBar/pressthespacebar2000.html

The next website is super engaging – it’s called Google Fight. This website asks you to write down two words. What the website technically does is search through all of Google’s pages, counting how often each word is used, thus, establishing a competition between the two words to see which one is more common and popular. Though the site is particularly pointless – it is very interesting to know which words are used more often than others.

http://www.googlefight.com/

I really like the following website - I hope you do to. What it does is that it gives you your own unique barcode depending on the information you provide – like age, nationality, height, etc. At the end, the website gives you your own barcode which you can save and print. To the right is my own and unique barcode! http://www.barcodeart.com/art/yourself/yourself.html

Though this website might seem totally useless – you might need it when you are in desperate need to flip a coin to decide on something, but have no coins to do so. This website offers a variety of coins from different countries – you can choose whichever you want, and can choose to have 1 to 16 coins. When you click ‘flip’, the website will flip the coins for you, and will show you the results through pictures like the ones on the right - heads or tales. 

http://www.random.org/coins/

I hope you enjoyed learning about these pointless websites. They might seem as a waste of time, though (you must admit) they are quite entertaining. There you have it – useless websites. I am still searching to see if I can find some more to share with you in a future post.

 Izzie