I sometimes question in all seriousness how humans functioned before the Internet. I mean what did they do all day?! Converse with each other or something strange like that? Do stuff outside? Mmm the thought alone. There are a few sites that belong in the daily needs genre (Amayzine, DailyMail, Perez Hilton) but once in a while something new pops up and you think, how did I live without this for so long? To make you happy and to save you time searching for hours, here is a list of things that need to go in your favourites folder directo-mundo, never to be taken out.
1. Fake Name Generator
Do you need to order something or log in somewhere and you have no desire to use your own details? Or have you landed up in some dark practice and need to lead someone up the garden path without using your own name? This site provides the way. Three clicks down the road and you’re suddenly Ilya Crooijmans resident on Queens avenue 130. With credit card number, height and weight. Why you actually need all this information is beyond me, but I can certainly amuse myself with becoming someone new over and over again.
2. Rainy Mood
I simply cannot explain why I find this one so much fun. I hate the rain so why in gods name would I want to play fictitious rain sounds? That is the point of this site, it gives you the sound of rain. Perfect for being grumpy to for a couple of hours or for staring out of the window for hours, lost in thought. For example.
3. Wolfram Alpha
Another site that I can spend hours on. You ask a dumb question and get a scientifically based answer in return. Or something like that. Try it, it’s fun.
4. Geo Guessr
No vacation plans but hankering after a foreign vista? This is your site. You get dropped somewhere on earth by Google Streetview, and based on your surroundings, you need to guess where you are. The closer you get, the more points you score. Watch out, you can spend hours doing this.
5. You’re getting old
Look this one is heaps of fun. Fill your birth date in and you get a whole shopping list of useless facts around your date of birth that you forget immediately afterwards. For example, I am 26 years and 19 days old. Ok, could have figured that our by myself. But also, I was born 9449 days after Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her apartment. When I was born, there were already about 5.165.795.213 people on earth. I have taken around 226.426.685 breathes and my heart has beaten around 951.634.590 times. SEE HOW MUCH FUN THIS IS!
6. What the fuck should I make for dinner?
Not much explanation needed here, the difficult question of the day gets answered, with much fuck and fucking, immediately.
7. 10 Minute Email
Definitely on par with number 1 but then slightly less criminal feeling: an email address for 10 minutes. Ideal for logging in to open WiFi for instance.
8. Does the dog die?
You can show me a 100.000 films where people die and I don’t blink an eye, but if even 1 animal dies I burst into tears. This website is the cause of serious tears, it tells you how many animals have given their lives, puts things into perspective.
