Procrastination, oh sweet procrastination, thou shalst be my downfall.
Obviously revision time has always been the best time to indulge in the pleasures of procrastination. I’m sure the revisionistas will disagree but ’tis most important that one wastes significant portions of one’s day on the internets rather than squeezing obsolete knowledge on the mental hard drive. ’tis in this spirit that I bring you the first installment of this multipart-series – a best of procrastination, if you will.
Disclaimer: Procrastination should not be attempted by people who think it may interfere with them passing their exams.
Originally this was going to be a list of all the wonderful things you can find on the Internets with which to kill time and procrastinate like there’s no tomorrow, but the list was getting longer and longer and so I decided to have several installments, each for the categories under which I listed the links. Today you shall meet
Webcomics
We all know and love comics. Thanks to the web not only can we rss our favourite comics but we can stumble upon comics that are, in some cases, only published on the web, which is why we shall refer to them as webcomics.
Sinfest is my favourite webcomic. As much for the stories as for the drawing. I mean, how many comics feature god, the devil as well as talking cats and dogs? Obviously this comic and the next aren’t exactly politically correct. If you go to the archives and start with the very first episode you’ve got almost 3000 episodes to read through.
Jesus and Mo is most certainly blasphemous, politically incorrect and probably extremely evil. Don’t look at it if you’re easily offended, heck if you’re easily offended you should turn your computer off – don’t you know how dangerous the Internet is? Anyway, back to the comic. It isn’t drawn that well, but the concept is rather interesting; Jesus and Mohammed are roommates and they discuss various things, many of which are of a religious nature.
Diesel Sweeties is kinda weird and includes a girl with a robot boyfriend. The look of the comic reminds one of the computer games of the distant past when computer screens had a much lower resolution. Nevertheless it’s got its amusing moments. Obviously you shouldn’t read that kind of comic if robot sex offends you.
Cyanide and Happiness is alternating between offensive and just plain gross with the occasional silly moment thrown in for good measure.
Least I Could Do is hard to describe. Basically the main character Rayne is the most egocentric person ever and he does some outrageously silly things. Like using ninja stars to send invitations to a party.
Boy on a Stick and Slither and Count Your Sheep is what I’d call really cute stuff. And we all know that every once in a while what one needs is cute stuff.
xkcd describes itself as a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. I really like their disclaimer which reads:
Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
If the classics are more what you’re after check out Comics.com which labels itself the home of comics on the web.
This should be enough to keep you busy for a while. The next installment will follow whenever it’s ready. In the meantime I have to cover a fair share of maths for the group project which started yesterday. I’ll tell you what it’s about once I figure it out.

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May 25, 2007 at 6:31 pm
beans
Damn: shouldn’t have skipped past the disclaimer! You can waste a few hours on them links.
(Ah well- I can’t wait till next Tuesday!)
May 25, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Jean-Noël
You can even easily waste a few weeks on those links
You really should wait till next Tuesday, you’re not missing anything by waiting.
May 31, 2007 at 4:16 pm
beans
The waits over now!
November 17, 2007 at 11:27 pm
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