TheJobBored

In the pantheon of at-work-timewasters, computer solitaire has to stand alone in the first rank.
Sure, there’s also Minesweep and now online soduku and Facebook Scrabble, but surely more work hours have been wasted playing that stupid included solitaire program on your Windows PC than anything else.
Except maybe online porn. But you have to really be […]

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I’m more of an Onion man myself, but if you get your at-work laughs from Dilbert, you might like to hear that the Dilbert.com website has gotten a bit of an upgrade.
h/t WebWare.
There are animated versions of Dilbert strips available, as well as an extensive expansion of the Dilbert archives that will eventually include every […]

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There’s no doubt that the 1980s was the golden age of cable access shows. In this age of video cameras that fit in your pocket and You Tube stardom, it’s hard to imagine now the sheer innocence and experimentation that people felt when suddenly they could be on the TV too!
Best Week Ever has a […]

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Just cause I still stand behind the notion that most of the jokes suck (did you see what Google did to Gmail today? ANNOYING!) I will give one good one.
Good joke.

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March Madness starts next week, and the days of cursing your job silently all day because you’re missing all the action… they’re over.
You can watch every single game, online… for free… over at CBS Sports. You do have to register, but still. Free, people!
It seems like just yesterday that they were beginning to experiment with […]

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If you’ve been a longtime reader of this blog, then you know we love nothing more than to find new ways to watch tv at work in your web browser.
Today the news is that CBS has done a classic TV dump and you can now watch vintage episodes of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone […]

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No good reason for posting this.
It’s just cool.
Click through here to see a cool interactive flash-based description of the new five-dollar bill and it’s features.
Wish I could make neato flash graphics like that.

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I know this is mostly a time waster, but a bunch of interesting things happened today in the world of gadgetry that I think most people would be interested in. So, if you’re most people, and you care, here’s the scoop:

First, the format wars are over. Blue-Ray won. Now you can finally go out and […]

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Last year, the New York Times finally took down it’s pay firewall. It was a great day for those of us who get most of our news online, while wasting time at work.
One of the last paid firewall holdouts in major media is the Wall Street Journal. There was plenty of speculation that after Rupert […]

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Here’s a perfect post for a Friday afternoon.

Stack items in cabinets so that they fall out on people when opened.
Move specific items to specific places everyday. (I.e. move the boss’ favorite pen from his desk to the floor every day if asked about it blame it on ghosts.)
See how many bathrooms you can visit in […]

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