It's totally Wait But Why. And I don't mean to be a kiss ass.

In all honesty, me too. I don't know why this site is not more popular!

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too popular." -Yogi Berra

Primitive technology - https://primitivetechnology...

Wow, that just sucked 3 hours from my day, but I don't regret it

Tim my favorite hidden gem is by far WaitButWhy. I try to recommend it to everyone I talk to and I constantly quote things you've said on here. You never fail to interest me on here and I just love everything that you've done on here, not to mention the fact that I procrastinate on here all the time. Honestly, keep on doing what you're doing here and I'll continue to expand you're readership as much as possible. (P.S. Good Luck with the SpaceX post, I'm very excited to read it!)

Thrilled to hear it - thank you!

Every Frame a Painting (youtube channel)

The Silence of the Lambs - Who Wins the Scene?
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Each video takes a theme or technique in movie-making (transitions, filming movement, action comedy, Scorsese's use of of silence, Michael Bayhem,etc) and really deep dives using various pieces of films to support his points over 5-10 minutes.

The quality of the videos are amazing, and you learn so much about the depth of film-making. It has a similar quality to WBW; once you see a few posts, you end up binging everything else on the site

... and I guess that's why I'm not a film director. I've seen that scene many times, but would NEVER pick out those tiny details on angles.
Fascinating!
Thanks for posting that!

I second this Hiro. One of my favorite Youtube channels!

This is great, I ended up binging all the videos like you said!

Thank you, that's awesome.

http://zenpencils.com/
Zen Pencils is a site of cartoon quotes from inspirational folks. The quotes are amazing, and to see a story come to life around them is beautiful.

Wow, thank you for sharing such an awesome site April. Those comic strips are remarkable. Gavin has actually brought something to life I have been thinking of doing myself for a while now.

These are really great!

That's cool. Reminds me of the sadly now defunct "Slow wave" site, where readers submitted their dreams and he would make 4-panel comics of them. You can Google image ""Slow Wave" and find many of them, but the original site is now something Japanese.

awesome!

http://www.xkcd.com/

This one is great.

Currently loving touchpianist.com - love playing the piano tunes.

THAT!? Is so awesome.

I became so hypnotized by playing this that when the song was over it looked like my computer was drifting to the right.

I agree this is insanely fun!

This was incredibly fun to play around with - thanks for sharing!

http://2kindsofpeople.tumbl...

simple but intriguing

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel http://joshworth.com/dev/pi...

HOLY WOW. #Perspective O.O

Tim.... is this topic really helping you finish all your Musk articles??

You KNOW you're going to follow every damn link here and probably lose about 3 days of your productive life!!

... just like all of us :-(

This thread is super old I know but you guys should definitely check out ncase.me

Freerice.com - you have to match words with their synonym/meaning and for every correct answer 10 grains of rice get donated through the a World Food Programme. Starts off easy but gets tough. Expanding your vocabulary while donating rice - why the hell not?!

http://www.howmanypeopleare.... In case you ever wake up at night with the desperate urge to know, well, how many people are in space right now.

www.despair.com I check for new Demotivators regularly.

My perenial favorite-
Meetings: None of us is as dumb as all of us

Waitbutwhy.com

Belatedly: BBC made THE MOST ADDICTING GAME EVER. It's called Geoguessr. It plops you down at a random place in the world in Google Maps street view. The closer you get to guessing the exact place in the world you are, the more points you get. If you "walk around" and look for street signs, you can get...... a moderate amount of neurotic. My coworkers and I got........... pretty competitive with this one.

Enjoy! / I'm so sorry.

https://geoguessr.com/

I had heard about this... then forgotten about it... thank you for this...its AWESOME!

i can't stop!!

Since 1995 it's been Astronomy Picture of the day for me: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/a... This is one of my Fav's: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/a... (view in low res to get proper effect)

Definitely incredibox.com - Fantastic time killer. It's a musical site with a bunch of different beats/sounds created by one guy's voice. It allows you to drag and drop them and mix them together to create your own beat. It sounds hard but the different sounds mix together automatically. No musical talent required. Super easy and there's so many possibilities. You won't regret it.

So good!

https://geoguessr.com/

I enjoyed the shit out of that. And did kind of really well.

I spent way too much time doing this... :)

Now good luck not getting lost in the depths of the site forever :)

Challenge accepted, Mr. Urban. :P

You get the most points when there's like some road or business sign nearby with the local language written on it lol. Sadly I mostly get dropped off on a road going through the middle of a forest where there are just *no* clues.

Boom.

I feel complete

This sight taught me that Australia can look like anything.

As can most of Canada, and I've even been to many of those places.

Well, I'm learning the Cyrillic alphabet so I can track down obscure Russian towns... Otherwise I'm just spending a lot of time doing Google searches. Btw, does anyone else find it a little weird how quickly you know when you're dropped into an American neighborhood? Do they all really look the same?

I have now gone to too many places, and I have made very weird and random google searches.
I also spent too much time traveling completely deserted roads, only to give up and guess Australia.