Bored / Journal Eruption

I'm bored today so I thought that I might post some weblinks which would make other people less bored. I have already used up my boredom on these sites today, so have at it.

Kingdom Of Loathing

I came upon this after it was advertised in a They Might Be Giants newsletter, it's a free browser based rpg which is very funny and has the added charm of taking a long time to complete. I used to play on it every day and then forgot about it for a month, at which point my game was reset. I'm currently stuck in Guano Junction trying to break down the walls with sonar-in-a-biscuit but it's not working. I know I've done it before, all the walkthroughs (which I only use in the most frustrating or circumstances) say you need 3 of them and I've had about 50,000. Stil, I plough on. By the way I'm a level 7 Accordion Thief.

Free Rice Dot Com

A vocabulary game which I saw linked on Danny Wallace's Random Acts of Kindness site. You are given a word and you have to say what it means from a choice of four. Every time you get an answer right you give rice to third world countries, paid for by sponsors. It's strangely addictive. The highest my vocab level has ever been in 43, so try and beat me and donate some rice.

Wordle

I found this on the Jonathan Coulton site, you paste in some text and it makes a 'word cloud' with it, it looks pretty good, some are better than others. I put all my recent blog post titles in and got this 

http://wordle.net/gallery/livejournal_titles

T Shirt Watch

As an afficianado of tshirts I was quite excited to see this site which just documents the cool tshirts that celebs wear. It also has a link to Threadless, which is my favourite tshirt site, although I have never bought any of them because I don't have a credit card. One day I will get that Mastercard thing which you top up and I will get every tshirt they have and live in massive debt but with good tshirts. I'll stop saying tshirts now.

Sensible Units

My friend sent me a link to this site and I thought it was a bit pointless until my other friend was planning on buying some weights and wanted to know whether he could carry 220 kilos. I put this amount into Sensible Units and it revealed that that is the weight of an average microwave oven so he knew he couldn't. There you go ladies and gents, proof that the internet can be useful in real life situations. (BTW I weigh the same as ten average domestic cats)

Band Name Maker

Yes it's a band name maker, but it's really inspired. I use to generate random two word phrases which I then use as song title. You can use it for pretty much anything because you can put an optional word in and use that in the phrase, so if I wanted to run away and change my name I could go with either Kirsty Bleach (the punk singer), Kirsty Beethoven (the composer) or Kirsty Doom (the super villain). You could also use it for livejournal titles : Dinky Journal, Last Journal, Journal of the State, Altered Journal and the Atomic Beau and Journal Eruption are just a few of them gems it came up with.

Of course the irony is that my boredom has been relieved by writing this journal entry, so everyone's a winner!