Emily's list of time vacuums

• SMUG. My friend Leslie's great zine, with more New York City attitude than you can possibly imagine.
• Salon, one of the very few Web sites I visit every day.
• RinkWorks. Home to the best collection of stupid computer user stories I've ever seen, plus the hilarious Book-a-Minute condensed books, and lots more.
• Memepool -- "life support for the terminally bored."
• The Onion. How I love The Onion.
• C'est Need to Know! -- bills itself as "the weekly high-tech sarcastic update for the UK." Always a fun read; comes out on Fridays.
• The Internet Movie Database.
• Dogman's page. His resume and AOL Geek of the Week Gallery kill me.
• FEED. Lots of smart writing about interesting stuff.
• Addicted to Stuff. "One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop."
• David Siegel's home page. He's the guy who invented the ubiquitious Tekton font. He's a designer, font geek, and vegan feminist who has some really good-looking, fascinating pages to get lost in. The site hasn't been touched in a while, but that's okay; there's enough to keep you busy.
• The Center for the Easily Amused.
• Barton's Den of Iniquity.
• The 50 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time.
• The Dead People Server.
• Spam.
• The MIT Gallery of Hacks. At MIT, a hack is a prank or a practical joke, or even a visit to a part of campus where you shouldn't be (like the top of the Green Building or one of the domes). This page has lots of great pictures of things like a fake campus police car atop the Great Dome (I never made it there, alas, but I did get to the top of the small one), along with descriptions of some of the best hacks perpetrated in recent years.
• Spatula City. All spatulas, all the time.
• Useless Web Pages.
• The Captain James T. Kirk Sing-Along Page. Visit this page. Be awed.
• The Cyrano's Valentine Server.
• The Nose Pages.

Software and toys

• Ambrosia Software, a company that develops Macintosh shareware that rocks. I particularly recommend Apeiron, a game based on Centipede, and Chiral, which is sort of Tetris for chemists.
• LucasArts, George Lucas's software company. They produce some fantastic games. We lost at least a week to Sam and Max Hit the Road.
• RealNetworks, software that enables you to listen to audio or watch video in real time. Listen to Jim Hightower's daily rants, see the Warner Brothers clip of the day, and more.
• Shockwave, from Macromedia. Animations, sound, and interactivity, right in the main window of your Web browser. Whee!