Good websites to keep you "busy" at work.

http://www.angusoblong.net

Angus Oblong writes and illustrates excellent short stories and the website is quite entertaining as well. I've purchased several of the unpublished shorts, and all arrived signed--they make excellent gifts for anyone who enjoys dark humor. The website is a great way to waste some time at work!

http://movielens.umn.edu/

If you watch too many movies like I do, this site is a must. You rate movies you've seen and after you rate 15 or so it will start predicting how you will rate other movies. The more you rate the more accurate it tends to be. Be warned or two things, though. 1. It is very hard to stop once you start--you just want to keep going through the lists rating movies. 2. It may be upsetting to realize how many movies you've seen in your life (and that's just those you remember and that movielens has). So far I've rated 1002.

http://www.venganza.org/

There's not much to explain. Just read the whole letter and decide for yourself. The "store" items are a close second as good gifts, to Angus Oblong items. I think the focus of this letter is now mentioned in Wikipedia and www.boingboing.net has some interesting info on it in the August files.