Gizmodo: distractions

Internet Distractions, In Order of Importance

Rosa Golijan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:00:00 EDT

The phone's ringing, but you've got a direct message from a hottie on Twitter. Oh, a Facebook message while you're watching kittens on video. What takes priority? Don't panic. This chart will guide you through the hierarchy of Internet distractions.

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The higher up in the hierarchy a distractions is, the more of a priority it's supposed to be. I'm not entirely sure I agree about a work email trumping a new pal's Facebook update, but it's a reasonable enough chart. What's your order of priorities? [Information is Beautiful]

Germans Dangerously Race Office Chairs Down a Hill for Sport

Adam Frucci — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:26:08 EDT

If there's a more illustrious sport to come out of Germany this year than office chair racing, I'd like to see it. The first ever German Championships in Office Chair Racing took place on Saturday in Bad Koenig-Zell, and it consisted of 70 people riding their office chairs down a 560-foot course without breaking their chair or themselves. The real tricks looked to be surviving the initial ramp and the second ramp further down the course that were designed to throw people off. Those crazy Germans! [Reuters]

Bubble-Blowing Dish-Scrubber Taunts ADHD Sufferers

Benny Goldman — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:00:00 EST

Time to focus, lots of dirty dishes to clean. Oooh look, a bubble! Wow, I can blow more bubbles? Yay! Bubble bubble bubble, bubble bubble bubble. I'm tired of blowing bubbles, let's do Jumping Jacks! Yay! Jumping Jacks stink, let's eat candy 'til we puke! Yay! So sick, so many dirty dishes, the best $5 I ever spent. Firetruck! [Bubble Scrubber via Boing Boing]

ABC Adds HD Streaming Channel to their Web Player

Adam Frucci — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:00:00 EDT

ABC has just added an HD channel to their online streaming player, allowing you to watch episodes of shows like Lost, Desperate Housewives, and The Bronx is Burning in hot, hot HD quality. It's still in beta, and it'll obviously require a pretty decent connection to run properly, but it's pretty awesome that you can now see HD episodes of modern classics like According to Jim whenever you want. So go ahead, try it out and let us know how it works. Don't pretend like you have work to do or anything; we know better. [ABC]