AdAge had in interesting post on Ways to Monetize Twitter, which ended with Ways to Waste Time on the Web. I think that the waste time part of this article deserves a repost.

By Abbey Klaassen

Published: December 15, 2008

Ways to Waste Time on the Web

Quick, can you point to Bucharest on a map? Traveler’s IQ, from Travelpod, is our newest favorite way to waste time.

The brainchild of a couple of former Razorfish employees, Someecards dishes out daily snark in the form of e-cards, such as this heart wrencher: “You’ll know I’m your Secret Santa if you don’t get anything.”

Still a great way to while away 15 minutes in the middle of your day. Eat it up now — before there’s no more media left for it to mock.

The Shiba Inus on UStream’s Puppy Cam are barely puppies anymore, but time wasters don’t get much more adorable than this. Luckily there’s a new litter in town.

Hours can be wasted on trying new looks at Sephora’s Mistletoe Makeover, which the cosmetics retailer created with Taaz.

A classic choice, YouTube continues to be the leader for user-generated content, and it’s every bit as wacky and interesting today as it was in the good old (pre-Google) days.

Despite IAC’s paring back its content division, CollegeHumor appears safe — and that’s a good thing, considering it’s been one of the more consistently funny online-video programmers in a crowded category.

Somewhere between useless time suck and helpful customer-service tool, one thing is clear: It’s easy to lose a half hour at a time on Twitter

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Sometimes you just need to feel good about your own minimal competence. That’s when Fail Blog comes in handy.

Hype Machine aggregates music blogs and, when those blogs have MP3 links in them, posts the links on its front page.