Ah, the Internet. A mind-bendingly powerful tool that has been both praised and demonized for its ability to allow people to find pretty much anything they want. Although most use the Internet for research or entertainment, what about when you just want to waste time?
Whether stuck in the library, goofing off at work or lazing about at home, the Internet has a lot of possibilities for passing the time, waiting for something better to do. Here are some Web sites that will help you become less productive than you already are.

www.amihotornot.com
Remember in high school, when you used to give people ratings on how physically attractive they were? And that little twinge of guilt you felt when you did it? Well, the Internet thinks of everything. Now, you can revisit that old pastime without having to feel any remorse about being a superficial jerk.
Amihotornot.com operates on a simple principle: Submit your picture to the site, and let thousands of Web viewers rate you on your physical appearance. Why one would submit themselves to this masochistic torture is beyond me, but the site doesn’t require anyone to send in a picture to start judging others.
Mechanically, the site is a dream. Load it up, look at the picture, click on a rating from one to 10, and you automatically move on to the next site. It’s physically addictive and the worst kind of instant gratification. Amihotornot.com will suck you in for hours, but it might make you feel dirty enough to take a shower afterward.

www.theonion.com
Why visit real news sites like cnn.com when you can read the fake news, which is often funnier and a lot more interesting? The Onion is like Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, except it’s a lot more profane and 100 times as funny.
How can you go wrong with headlines such as “Clinton Feels Nation’s Pain, Breasts” or “Area Loser To Spend Day In Bed”? The Onion is well-written and boasts some of the best digitally manipulated art I’ve seen in a long time. It covers art, science, society, politics and other topics, and not a single word of it is true.
The Onion also has an excellent arts and entertainment section, The Onion’s AV Club, with some of the most insightful and well-written reviews online today. Unfortunately, they’re true, but still worth a read. You can also peruse the complete archives of the paper, which should keep you glued to your computer long after you’ve started to smell funny.

www.totalsports.com
Tired of cnn.com’s monopoly on Internet sports reporting? Try Total Sports, a site just as good as cnn.com or foxsports.com. Not to say that Total Sports is a substitute for those sites, but it could be a complement. Sports sites are big time-wasters, and the more of them you can look at in one sitting, the better.
The site offers up complete statistics, so if you call up a story on the Portland Trail Blazers’ victory over the New Jersey Nets , you can get figures on the game’s attendance, the complete lineups of both teams, season and career stats and more.
All college and professional sports are represented, so you won’t have any trouble finding the team you love. Just remember to log off and take a bath once in a while.

www.gamesages.com
If you like playing video games (you know who you are), then there have been times when you couldn’t get past a certain game. Maybe you’ve given up and gone outside to play in the sunshine. Perhaps you’ve thrown the television out the window.
Whatever your previous solution was, now you can be more productive in front of the television for longer periods with this site, which lists codes and walk-throughs for any game. Name a game, or a system (even arcade games), and www.gamesages.com will in all likelihood have what you need.
Just type in the game you want, or choose from a massive list. Within two or three clicks, you’ll have all the information you need at your fingertips. With this many games and systems, you’ll be lost for weeks. Just remember to leave the door unlocked for the search party.

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Humankind has wasted time for millennia, whether with cave drawings or with cell phones. The Internet gives the user a myriad of options from which to choose. But why use the Internet for benign purposes when you could waste your life with these sites?