Category Archives: Internet Time Wasters

Stuff about time wasting stuff on the Web that doesn’t fit in any of the other categories

Treasure!

Old news, but damn. A long quest for booty from the Spanish colonial era appears to be culminating in Chile with the announcement by a group of adventurers that they have found an estimated 600 barrels of gold coins and Incan jewels on the remote Pacific island. “The biggest treasure in history has been located,” […]

Cute animation

[inspic=201,leftclear,fullscreen,thumb] A fun little animation for a soccer commercial. http://www.laika.com/house/index.php?r=20060301151607001

Japanese anti-smoking campaign

[inspic=66,leftclear,fullscreen,thumb] A page of images from a new Japanese anti-smoking campaign. Some of them almost make sense, but a lot of them (unintentionally?) hilarious. It’s only funnier if you know that the biggest tobbaco manufacturer in Japan is the Japanese government and between that and taxes on cigarettes they make a ton of money on […]

Awesome gymnastics and tumbling

Wish I could do this! Amazing gymnastics video after the jump!

Panda Surprise

The Japanese voice over is (roughly): “Shonyan (mother panda’s name) eats a soybean and bamboo ‘panda ball’ (panda dango) oblivious to the world.” “tyun tyun (baby panda’s name) is dead asleep at her feet, but suddenly…” “Wow that surprised Shonyan!”

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