The Links Page (websites used to have them)

How about some fun links?

• Are you at danger from Dihyrdous Oxide? learn the shocking truth.
• Windows 93 Remeber the good old computer days? Use Windows from its glory days.
• Weekly World News If you are going to read fake news anyway, get it from the best. Watch out for Bat Boy.
• Jolly Roger Phone Company A genius takes on telemarketers.
• Under The Pier Quirky arcade machines made from scrap.
• Road Side America. Take a road trip
• Red Green Canadian rednecks
• Conspiracy Generator Make your very on internet conspiracy!
• Big Foot Any big foot sightings were you live?
• Online IQ Test About as accurate as everything else on line
• Hubble Telescope Amazing space photos

Still bored? Do you want to play a game? How about a game called Train your Tyrant?

Go ahead and use Google for search. But search for things that you would never, ever purchase. Be creative and search often. See how long it takes the smarty-pants algorithm to start throwing ads for them at you. If you still have a (hopefully unused now) tech-giant email account, send an email or two asking a dear fictious friend if you should buy brand X or brand Y of something. Something you would never, ever buy. Pretend you are James Bond, a Saudi prince, an oil tycon, a world famous entomologist, or a housewife looking for the perfect decor for the home. Search for the stuff they would want to buy. Take big tech along for the ride and see how soon they will play along. After a few months, go to the cookies of the browser and just delete anything that has Google next to it. And start searching for goofy stuff again. If you used Firefox last time, use Brave this time just to be more confusing.

Still bored without big tech dominating your life? Pick one of the following:

• Play a board game with your kids
• Subscribe to a printed magazine
• Next time something breaks, see if it can be repaired
• Borrow a DVD, especially a classic, from the library
• Create some art
• Grow something
• Talk to your neighbors
• Launch a model rocket
• Have a long conversation on the phone with someone you have not talked to in a while
• Fly a kite
• Go for a hike
• Do not buy anything for a week
• Send an email to someone you have not heard from in a while
• Ride a bike
• Do not eat any processed food for a week
• Find a local, independent bookstore
• Read a book
• Write a letter and mail it to someone
• Before turning to the internet to buy something, shop around locally first
• Get paper maps for your car incase GPS stops working
• Listen to a music on a CD, vinyl record, or cassette
• Cook something from scratch, from a cookbook
• Stay abreast of what local government is up to
• Use cash for local purchases
• Eat at a non-chain local restaurant
• Use a needle and thread to repair some clothing
• Learn a new skill
• Box up stuff you do not need anymore and donate it to charity
• Learn a new card game
• Volunteer for something
• Read Calvin and Hobbes cartoons
• Instead of buying something online, look through the local thrift stores
• Learn how to preserve food by canning
• Make a reading plan for the next year to read some good books
• Learn how to do minor maintenance on your vehicle
• Walk around the neighborhood
• Figure out what you would do if you did not have electricity for a week

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