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I need a non inane but totally frivilous web site to take my attention away from political stuff
IMMEDIATELY
or my head will
applegrove
(133,103 posts)the stars and constellations all around you. From inside your home.
https://www.google.ca/search?dcr=0&ei=BLsbWtTSN4rWjwSkx4h4&q=star+chart+app&oq=star+chart&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.1.1.0l5.20783.30054.0.31771.25.25.0.7.7.0.226.3686.0j23j1.25.0....0...1c.1j4.64.mobile-gws-serp..0.25.3181.3..41j0i67k1j0i131i67k1j0i131k1j0i10k1.79.ey523gmPyic
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)Executedtoday.com
Its a collection of stories about executions throughout history. I stumbled across it in my family history research when I Googled the name of one of my more ancient ancestors. There are more current executions also.
If you enjoy reading history as I do, you could spend a lot of time there.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,796 posts)See: https://www.atlasobscura.com/
You could get lost in there for days, LOL. Have fun!
SeattleVet
(5,932 posts)I particularly enjoy their "Gallery of Regrettable Food"
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html
redwitch
(15,273 posts)I love this site, thanks!
Archae
(47,245 posts)I was just a kid, it was in the early 70's.
One of the rare collaborations of Austin Powers and Dr Evil.
MFM008
(20,042 posts)And get lost in weird stuff like dead people. Medieval stuff....serial killings.....
Cartoonist
(7,579 posts)American
http://comicbookplus.com/
British
https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/
madamesilverspurs
(16,535 posts)justgamma
(3,693 posts)DetlefK
(16,670 posts)A browser-game developed by an astronomer.
You take a sun, you add a few planets, and you hope that your choices won't cause a cosmic catastrophe.
http://www.stefanom.org/spc/
lastlib
(28,616 posts)Gocomics.com
kairos12
(13,706 posts)Stuart G
(38,726 posts)Somewhere in this group of posts is old Sears Catalogues...now, you could spend an entire day just looking at these old catalogues..thumbing through page after page...those old catalogues will take you away from the current political junk and look at old catalogue junk...
gooooooooooooooooooood luck!!!!! OH I FIGURED IT OUT...OH MY...POST NUMBER 9..
OLD CATALOGUES....YOU WILL GET LOST , AWAY FROM TODAY'S NUTZY WORLD, INTO THE NUTZY WORLD OF THE PAST, AND WHAT YOU COULD ORDER THEN....HAVE FUN.......STUART...G.
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