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Web Singletons?
tcmb writes "There are an uncounted number of web mail and picture sharing services, there are more than enough web sites for online bookmark management and friend-finding, but as far as I know there is only one Internet Archive. Which are the true web singletons, services that exist only once in this form?" And does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?
Everyone knows about Zombo of course. You could waste hours there without even thinking about it.
Timecube.
Unique and a waste of time.
And does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?
looks up at teh awesome bar (cough).
looks at uid.
sighs.
There's one site that I certainly hope is unique: goatse.cx.
Good, inexpensive web hosting
You can't beat /.
you had me at #!
I'm surprised no one else has tried to create a search engine for the internets...
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
I hear that eharmony is a good place to find singletons.
You must be new here.
Yep. That was a waste of time. Although it may contain the most euphemisms I've seen for vagina in a long time.
Usually, I'd rather be right than happy.
...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
Especially since as soon as anyone creates something new and vaguely useful, a dozen clones pop up within a week and do it better (though tend to fail anyways, since they never get the initial market share or publicity of the original - see: twitter).
Are you talking about the microblogging service with a dozen clones or the Slashdot poster with a dozen clones?
"And does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?"
This does -idle.slashdot.org.
Sig this!
He isn't a douchebag, just a simpleton.
AFAIK, this is the only site which will tell you if the LHC has destroyed the world yet. You can waste hours of time by checking it frequently, making sure that you're not dead yet! http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/ and the source is fairly humourous as well.
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They do if you have any sense.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Singleton is a township in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia. Famous for its wineries and mining. It's a nice place. Friendly people. And it has one of the worlds largest sundials.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton,_New_South_Wales
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It's "fool me once, shame on... shame on you; fool me you can't get fooled again".
Not true. Look at yesterday's slashdot.
Odds are a number of today's stories are repeated on there.
Therefore, slashdot is not a singleton.
QED.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
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I've been back to visit it every day for entertainment and don't know of anything like it :)
(Archive the archive (the archive (the archive (the archive))))
I can honestly say that I know quite a few web simpletons, but no singletons.
so you mean he has zero or one brain cells ?
What a depressingly stupid machine.
Both of them?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
No, I'm New Here
"does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?"
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
By listing two sites with this "time-wasting ability", you have proven two things:
1) That it's not singular
2) That you have a poor grasp of English
Plus I think way more people waste their time on Slashdot.
Nothing to see here. Move along.