Useless and semi helpful information sites

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There is no quiestion about the fact that the Internet is extremely useful and it holds so much valuable information that one can never go through it all. But the Internet is good for many other things, like fun and spending your time doing nothing important. Doing nothing on the Internet is my favorite activity in my leisure, so I gathered up this list of a few of my favorite useless sites. You don’t need to know the following sites, but if you have nothing better to do and you’re pretty bored, they can be very time consuming and always very interesting.

1. Last Words is a site dedicated to the last words people said, just before leaving this world. You can find many saying from famous people, fictional characters, famous epitaphs and famous farewells. If you always wanted to know what Thomas Jefferson said just before he left, this is the place for you.

2. OxymoronList holds the largest list of oxymorons (contradictory words) ever created online. You can find some really funny saying there if you go over their database, like “Anarchy Rules”, “Escaped Inmate”, “Tax Free” and many many others.

3. Insults.net will teach how to swear in every language. For example, if you wanted to tell a Rusiian guy to eat shit and die, you would need to use this sentence: kooshite govno ee oomeeite. The site also teaches you how to act insulting, explains how to make genre insults and has many information about insulting people in general.

4. Things People Said collects, well, things people said around the world - slips and gaffes from newspapers, ads, fortune cookies, letter and forms, things kids say, stupid labels and quotes and many stuff famous people said. Some of the things people are saying is really funny, while others are just embarrassing.

5. DayofBirth will let you know exactly what happened the day you were born (or any other dat, you’ll enter). It will tell you what day you were born on, how many days/minutes/seconds you’ve been alive, who was also burn on the same day as you and what historical events happened on that day. It can’t get more useless than this.

6. Murphy-Laws presents all Murphy’s saying in every category or topic. Murphy’s Laws in tech, law, computer, commerce, real-estate, cop, war, mothers, cars and many more. After you browsed through all the site and said to yourself “wow, he’s right” at least 15 times, you can also post your own sayings to the site.

7. rhymer is a free online rhyming dictionary. Yes, exactly what you think it is - you give it a word and the rhymer tells you which words can be rhymed with it. You can choose end rhymes, last syllable rhymes, beginning rhymes and first syllable rhymes. Love, for example, rhymes with the following words: above, dove, foxglove, glove, octave, olive, shove.

8. List of problems solved by MacGyver can be found on Wikipedia and it’s also a very informative piece of web page, but no one can actually do anything with all this information. Nevertheless, it’s always interesting to learn how MacGyver fixes a broken fuel line with a ball point pen or how by using parts of a microscope and a drop of water, MacGyver is able to read microfilm.

9. IdiomSite will explain to you why you say the things you say, what it means and what’s the origin of the saying. “All Your Base Are Belong to Us” for example, is from a Japanese video game called “Zero Wing”. Learn why people are saying a bad hair day, mum’s the word or push the envelope.

Do you know any other extremely useless, yet fun sites? Please share.

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