Want to Get Better at Wasting Your Time on the Internet?
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In Lamont at 4:45 A.M. with a 10 page paper due in a few hours, the Buzzfeed lists of the “25 Hunkiest Egyptian Protestors” or “15 Hedgehogs With Things That Look Like Hedgehogs” become super relevant. The Internet provides some seriously wonderful sources of procrastination, but so many of us fall into the infinite depths of Reddit and internet quizzes to find out which type breakfast cereal we are (I’m “Frosted Flakes”). Here are some awesome blogs so you can feel marginally less guilty about prioritizing web browsing over your sleep, sanity, and GPA.
This is the type of blog that you should refrain from reading if you are into “squatting and surfing” or on the silent floor of Widener, because you will awkwardly laugh out loud and get some looks. This combination of a web comic and blog outlines unfortunate situations from a dog that just won’t understand to darkly comic episodes of depression. Author Allie Brosh claims she began her career because her mother tricked her into writing a story in order to distract from her immediate goal of wrapping the cat in duct-tape. Enough said.
Beginning on March 15, 2008, World War II Today presents what happened each day 70 years ago. Focused on individual incidents, history unfolds in a new and addicting way. Pro-tip: find out if there was a Blitz on your birthday in 1941!
This is pretty self-explanatory. If you are interested in discovering new brands of beer or watching an animation of the farmer on the label or “Hop Rising” using a pitchfork, this is the blog for you.
Warning: this is a real blog with information that could actually be useful. Founder Mark Gurman started working at Apple as a high-schooler, is now a Senior Editor, and reports extensively on Apple products and initiatives. With everything from leaking the first photos of iPhones to popular tech toys, if cutting edge reviews and news is what you seek, look no further.
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One of the most acclaimed blogs on the internet, “The Bloggess” is a surefire avenue to spending hours enticed by strikingly honest and hilarious tales such as “Beyoncé the five-foot-tall metal chicken.” Raised by a taxidermist father with a real squirrel sock puppet, gothic in high school, and plagued by overly aggressive PR reps, Jenny Lawson was destined to be an internet gem. Look out for the prominently featured link to a picture of Wil Wheaton collating papers!
After living off coffee and Cheez-its from the vending machine for longer than you’d like to admit, the internet can provide nothing better than a nice food blog. More than just recipes or pretty pictures, iamafoodblog.com provides commentary, gifs, interesting and fun new recipes, along with, well, really pretty pictures.
If iamafoodblog.com is just not hood enough for you, fear not! Thug Kitchen will also provide you with countless great, in your face, recipes, along with scintillating and relevant commentary. For example, Thug Kitchen solves a fall conundrum with a Sweet Potato loaf this week and reminds readers to, “forget buying some nasty ass scented candles to make it smell like Fall. Bake a batch of this badass bread and your place will smell dope as hell. Plus, you know, you get food and that’s always better than a fucking candle.
Need I say more?