Bored much? Try this.

ajwz

http://www.freewebarcade5.net/media/the-scale-of-the-universe-2.swf
Just spent 1 hour of my time with this. Was time well spent. Now, back to baldur's gate ^^

Sophia

Woah, that site is cool!!
Returning the favour, and speaking of flash sites, when I'm bored, I go there:
http://www.eyezmaze.com/

Zafiro

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Cheesebelly

That's the most beautiful thing in the world O_O

civian1991

You should try stumbleupon.com - great when you have no proxy at work!

Leronis

Been there and done all that, cuz of "the front page of the internet" http://www.reddit.com/

Customize your subreddits ASAP, so you aren't bothered by politics, religion, cats, and so on.

lordkim

http://illarion.org/general/us_startpage.php

ajwz

Leronis said:

Been there and done all that, cuz of "the front page of the internet" http://www.reddit.com/

Customize your subreddits ASAP, so you aren't bothered by politics, religion, cats, and so on.

Don't like reddit - not the sort of community I'd be able to get along with

Leronis

@ajwz The subreddits have their own personalities. CFB - college football is nothing like TIL - Today I Learned, for example. What and who is on your front page changes dramatically as you subscribe and unsubscribe the subs.

SharGuidesMyHand

I still stick with the classics, like this: http://www.igoralekseev.com/lj/tetka.swf

Paladin

ajwz said:

http://www.freewebarcade5.net/media/the-scale-of-the-universe-2.swf
Just spent 1 hour of my time with this. Was time well spent. Now, back to baldur's gate ^^

This was great. Didn't spend an hour but invested a solid twenty minutes. Worth it.

old_jolly2

Banging your head on wall :

http://www.kongregate.com/games/matoking/epileptic-headsmashing-game-2000-deluxe

old_jolly2

WARNING! The music video contains strobes may be bad for epilepsy ?
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And after that , you can try :

Melt Yourself Down - Fix My Life ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=0eoVLfPszeQ

FinneousPJ

Wow, it begins from Planck length. Physics pr0n.

OneAngryMushroom

I suddenly feel very small and insignificant

Night_Watch

'...sued for flying kites.' hehe

awesome website. way to put things into perspective

SharGuidesMyHand

SharGuidesMyHand said:

I still stick with the classics, like this: http://www.igoralekseev.com/lj/tetka.swf

Huh?? I have no idea WTF I was linking to here.

SharGuidesMyHand

ajwz said:

http://www.freewebarcade5.net/media/the-scale-of-the-universe-2.swf
Just spent 1 hour of my time with this. Was time well spent. Now, back to baldur's gate ^^

If you zoom in from the end to beginning as fast as possible, it feels like the "time warp" scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Heindrich

OneAngryMushroom said:

I suddenly feel very small and insignificant

@OneAngryMushroom
Or... Incredibly HUGE and complex... if u go the other direction. Just imagination how many protons and electrons it takes to form a simple cell, and how many cells it takes to make each one of us!

Nonnahswriter

ajwz said:

http://www.freewebarcade5.net/media/the-scale-of-the-universe-2.swf
Just spent 1 hour of my time with this. Was time well spent. Now, back to baldur's gate ^^

Holy crap. The Everett Boeing plant is the largest building in the world!?

I go by that building all the time passing through Everett, and I never knew that... o.o

Heindrich

@Nonnahswriter

I don't think it is any more.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2360182/Take-look-inside-worlds-biggest-building-Chinese-dome-houses-shopping-centre-Mediterranean-village-water-park--ice-skating-rink-multiple-hotels.html

Nonnahswriter

Gah, of course it's the Chinese. I swear, it's like they're building a new "the world's largest building" every year! I can't imagine what they'd be compensating for, being a super-power-house-industrial country and all...

Well, I'll take my little slab of pride in knowing that I live relatively close to the second largest building in the world, thank you very much. *sticks out her tongue rebelliously*

All kidding aside, that's actually a really cool building they got there. Though I have to question the redundancy of putting a roof over dozens of other roofs...

Heindrich

@Nonnahswriter
I'm guessing the 'roof over roofs' thing has something to do with climate control and the 'artificial sunlight' in the building.

China today is kinda like the US in the 1920s when all the skyscrapers went up in New York. There is a huge amount of ambition and optimism amongst the people and all levels of government, a shameless and often ruthless race to get rich as quickly as possible, and flaunt that wealth, whether by buying a flashy car in the case of a newly rich family, or in the case of a local government, trying to build the most impressive building possible as a monument to 'their' success. Cos u know, the people of Chengdu are sick of Beijing and Shanghai hogging all the lime-light, so 'hey guys! let's build the most ridiculous enormous building in the world!'.

As a Chinese guy, I always find it kinda amusing when I see Americans worry about the rise of China (I know u were joking and I am generalising here), with doomsday declarations like 'omg China is gonna own us all!' (Glenn Beck would be hilarious as a comedy show if it wasn't taken serious by so many Americans as legitimate political analysis).

The truth is that it's the Chinese who feel incredibly insecure about our position in the world, surrounded by FOUR nuclear armed neighbours (u wanna swap India and Russia for Canada and Mexico?), isolated by American containment foreign policy and dangerously reliant on overseas resources (oil, gas, minerals etc) and markets that Chinese naval capabilities cannot protect. I mean just look at the news in the last few days... American bombers flying through a Chinese Air Defence Zone just to make a point of defying it. Whether the Air Defence Zone is justified or not, imagine if the situation was reversed and Chinese bombers flew off the coast of Florida to "protect our Cuban allies, because the Gulf of Mexico is crucial to Chinese National Interest". The fact that such a scenario is inconceivable and the reverse is factually true perfectly illustrates the actual balance of power between the US and China right now.