post written by: Marc
29 Semi-Productive Things I Do Online When I’m Trying to Avoid Real Work
You don’t always have to work hard to be productive. Productivity can simply be the side effect of doing the right things.
So here’s a list of 29 semi-productive things I do online when my mind is set on avoiding ‘real work.’
- Check delicious popular tags like ‘useful,’ ‘tutorials,’ ‘tips,’ ‘howto,’ ‘advice,’ ‘entrepreneurship,’ etc. for interesting, educational articles to read.
- Watch one of the thousands of educational videos streaming at TED.com, Academic Earth and Teacher Tube.
- Read an online book list and find a new book to grab next time I’m at the library. Here’s another list. And another. And another.
- Read a classic book online for free at Project Gutenberg, Planet eBook, or the E-books Directory.
- Research a new Do It Yourself project at DIY Network, Instructables, eHow, or WikiHow.
- Add to, delete from, or just generally sort my ongoing to-do list at Remember The Milk.
- Create a cool graphical mind map of some of my recent ideas at bubbl.us.
- Email a close friend or family member I haven’t spoken to in awhile.
- Backup my recent photos, documents, and other important files online using Microsoft’s free 25 gig SkyDrive.
- Use Wikipedia’s random article function to pick a random article to read.
- Touch up on my math and science skills over a the Khan Academy, MIT OpenCourseWare, or LearningScience.org.
- Send a paper greeting card directly to a friend or relative at enGreet.
- Start learning a new language online for free at BBC Languages or Livemocha.
- Watch one of the insightful 6 minute and 40 second presentations at Ignite Show.
- Use Memorize Now to memorize a cool joke, or poem, or whatever.
- Use Media Convert to convert video files I have on my computer into a format I can view on my iPhone or iPod later on.
- Listen to an educational podcast over at Odeo or via iTunes on iTunes U.
- Read one of the academic journals at the Directory of Open Access Journals.
- Share my favorite mp3s, photos, videos, etc. with friends and family using Dropbox.
- Get a free college education online using this guide from Lifehacker (or read one of the other useful articles on Lifehacker).
- Inspire and spark my creative mind by looking at a rolling slideshow of the highest rated photos on Flickr for the last 7 days.
- Catch up on a short history lesson at HyperHistory or The Internet History Sourcebooks Project. Or find out what happened today in history.
- Take a fun, educational online quiz at Quizlet.
- Play an educational online game at Lumosity, Sporcle, Games for the Brain, or Math Run.
- Add a little gentle rain to my environment using RainyMood.com and then simply meditate and relax in my computer chair for 10 minutes.
- Sell old stuff I no longer need on eBay and make a little extra cash.
- Find a new musical artist to listen to based on music I like at Grooveshark, Pandora, last.fm, or Deezer.
- Find out what’s happening in our world from quality international news sources like BBC News and Reuters.
- Write a blog post like this one.
Oh, and ever since I bought my new (super sexy) Apple iPad
So what kind of semi-productive things do you do online in your off-time? Please share them with us in the comments section below.
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157 Comments
February 8th, 2010 at 1:14 am
This is a nice list to check out even though I’m trying to focus my productivity towards my blog. However these are a more productive alternative to checking stats, random surfing, etc.
February 8th, 2010 at 2:30 am
I will be referring to this list often.
February 8th, 2010 at 2:34 am
Great list! I’ll be going through it for sure.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:37 am
hahahah, i like the semi working idea , doesn’t sound stressful yet its useful
February 8th, 2010 at 4:56 am
Great help!!!
February 8th, 2010 at 5:32 am
I am always on SkyDrive. It’s so addictive. You can’t beat 25gb online.
February 8th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Nice list. I tend to do similar things while putting off projects - it’s a bugger!
February 8th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
I like your book list, and enGreet. I’m also intrigued by the free college education I can tap into
Very interesting resources: you must have had a lot of semi-productive hours to cull all this information 
February 8th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Haha, this list was both great and horrible! I have a similar habit of finding semi productive things to use for procrastination…and you may have just added some more options for me!
February 8th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Can’t leave out stumbleupon.com
- perfect for when you want a cool site on a particular topic but don’t want to start from a pool as huge as google!
February 8th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
I do many of the same things. One thing I like to do, is stumble through blogs in my niche finding new ones in the comments section.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:08 am
My gf has a severe addiction to stumbleupon.
February 9th, 2010 at 10:03 am
Exactly, who’s to define what productivity is? If you’re doing something to improve your language skills or brain power, that is in no way not being productive.
February 9th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
A very good list, many new things for me to check out! Nobody should claim that random surfing is a waste of time.
My additions:
* Check http://www.kiva.org and help someone change their life.
* Design a T-shirt and try to sell it through skreened.com
February 10th, 2010 at 2:10 am
Great list. #30 should be nothing. Sometimes that’s just as productive.//Marc
February 10th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Great list. Of course my goal has been to become *more* productive and *less* distracted - your post will help me in that goal not at all…:-) But I do appreciate the fact that you have many links I have not checked out before - thanks!
February 11th, 2010 at 9:09 am
That’s a great list. I find StumbleUpon also a great means of finding relevant information when I am trying to kill time..
February 12th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Yeah - StumbleUpon is like crack. Now that I have this list, I may never work again.
February 13th, 2010 at 12:37 am
Glad I browsed over this awesome list. It will be sure to entertain for hours…
Thanx,
tom
February 13th, 2010 at 12:50 am
Great article… a virtual What’s What of the world wide web.
February 13th, 2010 at 7:25 am
That’s nice but it should be few,,,,,,
Less the better
February 13th, 2010 at 10:50 am
My usual routine is visiting all the forums I frequently post on and updating my threads, plus commenting on any new ones I find interesting. This can easily kill a couple of hours, plus is really useful for building my links and getting my name out there
February 13th, 2010 at 11:52 am
I like the part about browsing delicious tags. I do that too. In addition I visit sites like ‘SAT question of the day’ and ‘Museum of Modern Betas (MoMB)’ as a form of semi-productive browsing.
February 13th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Good refference Material to check out, especially during this snowout!
February 13th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Why would you do this to me? I have a hard enough time working, I don’t know if I can handle all these new ideas!
February 13th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Thank you, i am always looking for productive things that are not really the productive things I should be doing ! I’d never find all of these by myself.
February 13th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
@Mike, I agree that less is better however…
As an information and Internet addict (like I’m sure many of you are as well), this is an awesome list to add to my arsenal.
I never knew about MemorizeNow so thank you for sharing. I love enhancing my memory skills whenever possible
- Justin Popovic -
February 13th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Terrific list. I browse Instructables a lot, but I love rainymood.com. Great!
February 13th, 2010 at 11:39 pm
I end up reading your article, when I was “trying” to avoid real work. Bahh… there is no need to “try”, your list shows how easy is to avoid the work. Hard is to be focus and relax at the same time, while trying to do the real on work in time! keep safe!
February 14th, 2010 at 5:12 am
Great tips. Thanks!
February 14th, 2010 at 8:36 am
Woooooooo ! i love this
February 14th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
I like the idea of searching for tags like “useful” and “entrepreneurship”. I’ll have to try that and see what I find.
February 14th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
This is clearly one of the most comprehensive lists I’ve ever encountered. Now I’m a Semi-Productive Procrastinator. I even like the sound of it.
Thanks so much for the list.
Vita Reid - The One Minute Minimalist
February 14th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
i just go to stumbleupon.com
February 14th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
Great list of sites.. many of which I haven’t heard of. This will keep me busy for hours in my downtime. Thanks!
February 14th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Thanks for the guidance, and I’ll keep in mind to refer it to others.
February 14th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Thanks for the language links. I’m trying to learn Gaelic and the language CD’s I bought just aren’t cutting it for me. They want me to learn like an infant would; without reading. But I’m not an infant; I can already read and have a long-standing reliance on reading to generate comprehension.
Without the printed form of the words spoken, it’s tough for me to know if I even heard the thickly accented voices correctly. Hopefully, at least one of the two freebie sites will combine sound with the printed word. (Hey … how about following the dancing ball? That’s how we used to learn the words to songs with Mitch Miller.)
February 14th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
It’s funny how I stumbled upon this article while I’m avoiding real work. Seems like stumble is trying to tell me something….
February 15th, 2010 at 10:09 am
try adding this:
http://slashdot.org/
News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
It has some of the most insightful and entertaining comments I’ve ever seen on the net.
February 15th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Another to add to #2 is SlideShare. Lots of great presentations.
Another to add to the list, answer questions on LinkedIn.
February 16th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
wow awesome list i love it!
February 17th, 2010 at 4:42 am
….another wonderful time waster if you love wildlife vids is the Nat Geo site, esp. this one called The Secret Forest Halequin Ducks. Howzat for a name!
http://natgeowildtv.com.au/programmes/wild-russia/videos/the-secret-forest-harlequin-ducks
February 17th, 2010 at 10:21 am
hey! I was overwhelmed already… and you’ve posted SO nice list… that i will perhaps take vacation just to go through it all
thanks!!!
February 17th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
I work on my goal list at http://www.43things.com
February 17th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Great list - I’m always looking for productive ways to kill time online and I’ll refer to this list over and over again.
February 17th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Thats a great list! I’m always looking for things to do at work….other than work:) Here is another site that keeps me entertained! http://www.shareitfitness.com Enjoy!
February 18th, 2010 at 1:02 am
Nice post coz you’ve given a lot of information. the list seems good will surely try some of the things…
February 18th, 2010 at 2:54 am
I use gqueues.com to as my “getting things done” system.
I also read useful blogs like this using my feed reader at feedly.com!
February 18th, 2010 at 9:21 am
Looks like this list is more productive than a whole bunch of things most people do in their productive time…great list to add to my hours of exploring the net..Thanks
February 18th, 2010 at 10:33 am
Great collection; reading it made me feel so productive!
I made this one of my three links on today’s Other Thought for the Day blog:
http://otherthoughtfortheday.blogspot.com/2010/02/02-18-best-college-cars-larp-sort-of.html
All the best, Ted
February 19th, 2010 at 2:34 am
Hi, Thanks for your instructive knowledge and sites.
February 19th, 2010 at 6:25 am
I go through StumbleUpon and find new sites (like this one!), brainstorm / map for future blog posts or, like you, read!
February 19th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Wow, love this! I love the RainyMood.com, the AcademicEarth.org, and KhanAcademy.org. Thanks a million!
February 20th, 2010 at 2:06 am
I have an overwhelming feeling that this will all become extremely useful to me starting now. Stumbling upon sites like this remind of the positivity that exists in so many people and places in the world. Thank you much.
February 20th, 2010 at 9:15 am
I write lenses on squidoo, supervise my category on wikianswers, sell on ebay, share photos on RedGage.com, share photos on Photobucket.com, chat in the Forum.com, play scrabble, IM on AOL, blog, research for my next lens, am a member of RocketMoms, member of Helium.com, buy Amazon stuff, belong to many other online groups such as docrafts.com..i do sooo much online that i would be here all day if i tried listing everything.
February 20th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
With regard to Step Number Five, here is an offshoot of wikihow, which is really fun to while away some time with!
http://www.wikihowl.com
February 21st, 2010 at 2:19 pm
I love your list!!!! Thank you vey much!
Greetings from Costa Rica
February 22nd, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Excellent List. Makes me think. Its the type of list and website that you can take a quick look at and it will get you thinking about what you can improve on and what you want to take on next.
February 23rd, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Thanks for new ideas for surfing the web. I was spending to much time on facebook… now I can watch edicational videos.
February 26th, 2010 at 3:30 am
Great list thanks for the awesome links. One for you http://www.wordle.net
is great for using to get a great looking word cloud. I have put my cv through it with interesting results.
Will keep searching and keep up the good work
February 27th, 2010 at 2:03 am
Too good… This list is super exhaustive, you must be totally organized.
February 28th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
Great list! I tend to do a lot of productive things too, but never gave myself credit for actually being productive. This is great inspiration and quite a useful list of fabulous links too. Thank you for sharing your interests and ideas.
March 1st, 2010 at 8:39 pm
You can probably add watching forex tickers and charts.
March 14th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Wow, what a great list of resources. I LOVE ted.com too, but I’m not much of a news person.
Lots of little gold nuggets in this post!
March 26th, 2010 at 11:49 am
You know what?! You are just a procrastination enabler, I love you.
March 26th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Yea that really nice and interesting things to do, when you are doing nothing online
March 26th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Stop looking over my shoulder! :^) (nice list…looks VERY familiar.) You left out Stumbling for random insights!
March 26th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
Gee thanks! Now you’ve given me plenty of new semi-productive links to explore.
Here’s my list:
upload photos from iPhoto to my .mac library
look at new Wordpress templates
check my adsense account
facebook
March 27th, 2010 at 8:59 am
Thanks so much for this list…You’ve given me lots more to do than visit Facebook..and so much better for my brain..I, too, love stumbleupon but will certainly enjoy using your list.
March 28th, 2010 at 7:00 am
This is the best , most informational post I have seen in a while. It will definitely change my online life someway and I’m eager to engage in semi productive activities than non-productive ;-).
March 28th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
I like to check out http://www.charlierose.com/, he interviews some of the most important and interesting people in the world. All free.
Great list btw! I’m completely going to be using this
March 29th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Nice list!
March 30th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
30. Get back to work =)
March 31st, 2010 at 12:45 am
I am so jealous. You have achieved what I have marginally attempted.
April 5th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
I love this list! I was thinking today that I need to spend less time online because it’s not productive. Thanks for the fantastic ideas!
April 10th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Gotta make a list like this as well. I am also doing half-productive tasks like this occasionally.
April 11th, 2010 at 12:12 am
check out MIT World too if you use iTunes U and are familiar with Open Course Ware..
mitworld.mit.edu
“MIT World is a free and open site that provides on demand video of significant public events at MIT.”
More than 725 lectures, including 33 nobel laureates.
April 11th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Don’t forget Advicenators.com. When you have a second you might do what I do and spend some time improving somebody else’s life just a tad.
Thank you for the excellent list! I get into TED and I am there for days.
April 12th, 2010 at 1:27 am
How fun! So many more distractions to check out!!!
April 12th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Stumble Upon is a great source for procrastination
You should check it out.
April 13th, 2010 at 10:00 am
I love this!
April 14th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
For more free education stuff check out Yale University’s “Open Yale Courses” at http://oyc.yale.edu/
I burned the audio to CD and listen to the lectures in my car. It’s great!
April 17th, 2010 at 2:19 am
Love the list! To add to it, freerice.com quizzes you on subjects like vocabulary, foreign language, art, math, geography, or chemistry, and every question you get right they give 10 grains of rice to the hungry.
April 17th, 2010 at 2:29 am
Great list! Thanks.
April 17th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
Cool list. Thanks.
April 17th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
I am taking a free online typing lesson in my spare time……
April 18th, 2010 at 2:57 am
Sigh… I knew that taking those extra classes online to boost my GPA was a bad idea. Now I’m REALLY never going to get anything done. Thank you SO MUCH!
April 18th, 2010 at 9:37 am
This is probably thee MOST HELPFUL thingamajig list I have EVER come across. My daily “check back” manual. thank you.
April 19th, 2010 at 5:36 am
Nice list. I’ll give it to my boyfriend so he has something to do, anything, while he hangs home.
April 20th, 2010 at 6:41 am
..press Stumble! and run into pages like this one (for which I gave a Thumbs Up).
April 22nd, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Really nice one.. thank you for sharing such a nice to do list in free time..:-)
April 26th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
this is incredible. thank you so much for putting this together. like i saw in one comment, i will be referring to this often. what you just supplied me will probably occupy and enrich my online surfing for the next year.
wow
April 27th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
I am amazed at the similarities between me and you, The only thing that I can add is that I check reddit and sometimes use stumbleupon (thats how i found your list). The only two websites I never heard of before are rainymood.com and memorizenow.com
Again I am baffled, Great List.
April 29th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Go to http://www.thehungersite.org once a day and donate food and support to good causes (for free). Go to http://www.freerice.com and learn more vocabulary and geography while earning food donations for people who need them.
May 8th, 2010 at 12:53 am
Most of the things on the net these days are Interesting, informative, educational as well as inspiring. What works for one may not work for other as each person is different in temperament, predisposition and aptitude. By and large, in the larger sense, I find myself in concurrence and agreement with most of the semi-productive things you have listed hereinwith. My favorite sites to visit for productive timepass are satire/comedy cartoon sites like Dilbert, knowledge-tingler sites like SAT question of the day, and videos featuring Rube Goldberg machines and automatic Rubiks cube solvers.
May 10th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
More people need to avail themselves of your list.
Ben Koshkin
May 16th, 2010 at 2:01 am
Thank you so much for this. Very Helpful
May 23rd, 2010 at 3:41 am
This is simply one of the best articles I’ve ever read! Awesome!
June 6th, 2010 at 10:16 am
This has got to be THE most useful thing I have come across in the Internet. It points you to all the right directions!! Thanks so much.
June 27th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
#9 I have to checkout. Free storage is always good. I already use Grooveshark because I must have my music therapy.
There’s so much good tips here. I just try to find things to read and contribute to online as semi productive.
June 30th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
This is a great resource, not only for ideas but the links put me over the top. I will definitely be bookmarking this and sending it along. I know what I love to do, but unfortunately some people don’t and have no direction. This should help them, and me tremendouslyl
June 30th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Good list, and I need to do some of these as well.
I like the random wiki one: I do that as well but over at Theopedia instead
July 2nd, 2010 at 9:16 am
Or simply go to Stumble Upon
July 7th, 2010 at 12:48 am
This is great, I stumbled upon it.
I can also share this to my son…so cool
Thank you for sharing.
Cheers!
July 8th, 2010 at 10:33 am
i think you just killed any productivity i had left
ah well.
July 15th, 2010 at 8:03 am
I often do not get what to do while i have free time.. this is nice to know… thanks for sharing!
July 18th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
I am a stumbleupon junkie. In fact, I found this through stumbleupon!
Great list. Thanks for sharing!
July 19th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
What’s the matter with doing nothing? Real productivity can’t happen without down time, to recharge, review, rethink, relax and just…do…nothing.
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:35 am
not a bad list, but i’d disagree that the ipad is sexy
July 25th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
cuul blog. luvn it
July 26th, 2010 at 6:37 am
Thanks, but I have got sooo much that I should be doing right now and you’ve just got me opening loads of new tabs to explore some of these awesome resources.
especially like the radio one as I have been looking for an alternative to Last.fm And I will certainly be grabbing Microsoft’s free 25 gig SkyDrive
Cheers
July 26th, 2010 at 10:34 am
Very helpful, I will try your list and see what i get.
August 4th, 2010 at 2:29 am
The one of the best Blogs I´ve ever seen! Veeery useful!!!
Congrats and thnx
August 25th, 2010 at 10:45 am
Excellent.
Thanks for sharing these sites and tips.
September 1st, 2010 at 5:37 am
Will add to my list:) Great to have new ways to spend my time. Oh, and will be sure to share my list with you soon
September 1st, 2010 at 5:38 am
Thanks this help me a lot.
September 1st, 2010 at 6:37 am
Yeah, I do a lot of these too. Making notes on ideas for sites and blog posts, I have started building this http://bit.ly/dqJ20h , If anyone else wants to become a contributor let me know.
Thanks for the blog, I am really enjoying it at the moment……. when I should be working!
September 2nd, 2010 at 9:54 pm
What a wonderfully distracting list!
Thanks for compiling it all together.
September 9th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Stumbleupon.com, terribly addicting.
September 20th, 2010 at 5:38 am
Yeah, you can’t enjoy your all this sites with your sexy ipad, because there’s no flash in your ipad… yeah…
September 21st, 2010 at 7:52 am
I love Stumble Upon! That’s how I found you! Keep’s me away from websites that my boss isn’t so fond of
Thanks for your list. Gonna check some out!
October 6th, 2010 at 12:50 am
I’d be careful with BBC. Its director general admitted to an institutional “massive bias to the left”. But it should be getting better.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.91cc350cfed23f483b23ec44acc183c7.201
October 10th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Thank you very much!
October 12th, 2010 at 2:01 am
Nice list, way better then mine. Thanks for the tips.
October 17th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
I signed up with stumble upon today and came across this fabulous find! Thanks for sharing these useful productive tips.
November 1st, 2010 at 2:33 am
I like how we can be productive while being unproductive. Thanks for the list.
November 11th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Ohh..this is awesome. Because can only read fmylife so many times..
November 24th, 2010 at 11:16 am
I like to improve my typing speed by participating in a typing test at http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com/.
November 26th, 2010 at 12:35 am
Blogging and teaching both are creative and productive activities for me and I enjoy both.
December 6th, 2010 at 3:08 pm
I really enjoy this list of productive things to do when I’m bored. I will tell all of my co-workers about it!!! Thanks so much =)
December 8th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
this list is good but posting stuff on ebay is WORK to me and is something i am procrastinating on!
December 9th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Great list. So important that I decided to set it as one of my home pages! Thank you!
December 17th, 2010 at 7:47 am
Very nice post. Will save for future reference. Very well written.
December 18th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
That’s a lot of things to do…I found out some a few new things that I could do in my spare time. Great list.
December 19th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
What a great list! I really like that so many of these things to do are free. It is getting harder and harder to find free quality sites out there these days, and I am glad to pick up on a few more here.
January 12th, 2011 at 11:04 am
Wow! Thanks, fantastic! Checking out all these sites was like opening presents on Christmas. I will recommend my readers about this list.
Cheers!
January 20th, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Have you checked out CardGnome.com, its also an easy way to send greeting cards from the web. All the cards are designed by independent artists who share in the profits, so you know that your supporting the art community not some no name corporation.
January 22nd, 2011 at 12:53 am
Love skydrive just wish it was bigger than 25 gb. Combine skydrive with live essentials and you have a sweet suite.
January 22nd, 2011 at 5:21 am
Its amazing to find out that somebody cares about you being better.. thanks for this.
January 30th, 2011 at 12:55 pm
Awesome. Thank goodness for StumbleUpon.
February 16th, 2011 at 1:33 am
This list is worth the read for reminding me of the top Flickr pictures alone. Great post.
March 7th, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Thank you a lot for this list. Great job
March 16th, 2011 at 1:31 am
wow this is great… i thought my stumbleupon addiction was enough (thats how i got here) but after reading this i will have a lot more to worry about keeping me from doing what im supposed to.
great blog!
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:05 am
Great guide for the geek and curious! You got me at Delicious
I have translated your post into Catalan here: http://claricatala.com/2011/05/03/marc-obrien-29-coses-semiproductives-per-escaquejar-me-de-la-feina/
Hope it’s ok! If not, please let me know so I can take it down.
May 9th, 2011 at 8:30 pm
I like to use livemocha.com for connecting to native speakers of foreign languages, and learnalanguage.com to build my vocabulary for free.
May 19th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
I’m not even half done with the list, but I had to pause for a comment before I forgot. This little productivity list could have quite possibly changed my life at work forever
June 2nd, 2011 at 6:56 pm
I have a lot of this websites in my favorites. Thank you for putting them all together in one page. As a matter of fact, I visit this specific page regulary. Thanks!
June 5th, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Thanks Marc. Now I can be a little more productive while surfing. Really, great post!
June 10th, 2011 at 3:45 am
Great post!!! Just added it to my list of procrastination websites. I’m even procrastinating right now…
November 5th, 2011 at 11:49 pm
I have so many tabs open now thanks to your post. That is definitely not a complaint
November 8th, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Amazing now i’l never get bored online
hats off to the writer 
November 20th, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Hi! I translated and published your article on my page! Great Post! Thanks and congrats! =)
November 26th, 2011 at 11:40 pm
Great share!!! Informative and fun. Bookmarked it. So glad I found your blog
December 12th, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Stumbling upon your website earlier today certainly interfered with my productivity for the rest of the afternoon. But I discovered a great thought-provoking site that I intend to visit again and again
So thanks.
December 13th, 2011 at 5:08 am
#30 could be “taking a nap.” Naps are refreshing!
December 29th, 2011 at 1:26 am
Nice touch. This page has been duly bookmarked for future use
Very, very useful.
[specifically the foreign language bit, I’ve always wanted to learn foreign languages. ]
January 19th, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Oddly enough this page has become a motivation for me. I just start doing one of those when I realize that I am not doing anything productive. I believe it has inspired me and made me semi-productive this past week… Thank you.
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