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Web Singletons?

Posted by timothy on from the magrathea-dot-com dept.

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?

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  1. Zombo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone knows about Zombo of course. You could waste hours there without even thinking about it.

  2. There can be only one... by statemachine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Timecube.

    Unique and a waste of time.

    1. Re:There can be only one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wrong; not a singleton: http://www.thymecube.com/

  3. What site is this again? by John+Whitley · · Score: 5, Funny

    And does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?

    looks up at teh awesome bar (cough).

    looks at uid.

    sighs.

  4. I hope it's unique! by techno-vampire · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's one site that I certainly hope is unique: goatse.cx.

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    1. Re:I hope it's unique! by tsalmark · · Score: 5, Funny

      Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I am not Googling meatspin.

  5. Yeah, for time wasting by toby · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can't beat /.

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  6. You mean like Google? by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm surprised no one else has tried to create a search engine for the internets...

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  7. Singletons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hear that eharmony is a good place to find singletons.

  8. Uh... by meeotch · · Score: 5, Funny

    And does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?

    You must be new here.

  9. Re:I'm Sorry, but . . . by treeves · · Score: 4, Funny
    Well yeah, because even if you win, you lose.

    Usually, I'd rather be right than happy.

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  10. Which twitter? by tepples · · Score: 3, Funny

    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?

  11. Time-wasting singleton? by actionbastard · · Score: 3, Funny

    "And does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?"
    This does -idle.slashdot.org.

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  12. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He isn't a douchebag, just a simpleton.

  13. LHC destruction monitor by ninjapiratemonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  14. Re:I'm Sorry, but . . . by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wives tend to do that.
    Win, I mean.

    They do if you have any sense.

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  15. No, no, you got it wrong by omuls+are+tasty · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's "fool me once, shame on... shame on you; fool me you can't get fooled again".

  16. Re:What? by daeg · · Score: 4, Funny

    (Archive the archive (the archive (the archive (the archive))))

  17. Re:What? by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pandora has been archiving the australian web sites

    Both of them?

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