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The original boredom portal, still sorting thousands of time-wasters into categories with no discernible editorial filter.
Opens in a new tab. We do not control this site and it may have changed since we catalogued it.
Bored.com sits in Portals & Directories under Weird, filed as coffee break.
About this category: The other directories, random buttons and curated indexes. We are one of these; it would be dishonest to pretend the others are not worth your time.
Yes. Bored.com is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Bored.com without signing up for anything.
Yes. Bored.com works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Curated stumble button that sends you somewhere good rather than somewhere random, with categories if you are feeling fussy.
The volunteer-edited web directory that outlived DMOZ, still organising the internet into a category tree by hand.
A weekly newsletter of thoughtful links on design, technology and cities, with every past issue readable on the site without signing up.
A long, community-kept list of software and services with genuinely free tiers: hosting, databases, email, monitoring and much more.
People staple bread to trees and photograph it. There is no deeper explanation available and no sign of it stopping.
The write-draw-write chain game that predates the current crop, still running, still free and still producing pure nonsense.
Chuck banknotes into an open grave with the mouse, accompanied by an unreasonably committed soundtrack.
Plays the notification sounds of Slack, email and Teams on a loop so it sounds like somebody urgently needs you.
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