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...going strong. Want to see a baby chick pass out atop a slice of bread (yeah, we don't know why either)? A narcoleptic dachshund? How about a baby polar bear sleeping next to a plush, stuffed polar bear? Cute Things Falling Asleep might be the most adorable time waster since Animal Planet began hosting puppy sporting events...
...this efficiency-driven environment, sleep is viewed as a time-waster demanding minimization. The rare night of more than six hours of good sleep leaves us with a nagging sensation that we could have better spent our time. When weighing the marginal utility of an hour of sleep against powering through the rest of that Ec 10 problem set, you know which option always wins. Even if all those graphs and data have evaporated from our sleep-starved brains the next week, at least we got a check plus...
...beta form, the addictive, low-tech time waster was introduced just last month and has quickly amassed a worldwide cult following. Created by a programmer with the screen name ~fsk who claims to be from the small European country of Slovenia, the digital amusement first showed up Sept. 23 on deviantART, an online community of artists, designers, photographers and art lovers . "This is a project I did for illustration class," states ~fsk in a brief intro. "It's not a game, it's a toy... there are no goals to achieve and there is no score...
...really blame companies for watching our Web habits, since 45% of us admit that surfing is our favorite time waster, according to a joint survey by Salary.com and AOL. A Northeast technology company found that several employees who frequently complained of overwork spent all day on MySpace.com Information-technology departments routinely receive automatic Web reports on what sites employees visit; they tend to review them only if there's a red flag...
...Zeppelin (compare with “Bron Y-Aur Stomp” off III). One might wish that Claypool had managed to trade for a vocalist to compare to the storm whipped up by the instruments; Claypool’s nasal cartoon voice and Anastasio’s simple waster mumble both serve them well, but pale in comparison to their music—the lyrics are merely a trampoline to get the band bouncing before they head off into the clouds. It all comes together beautifully on “Mr. Oysterhead,” the song that sums...