A scanner tastily

What to do on your lunch break — scanwiches!

(From Angela.)

It's like watching an hourglass

...or rather, taking the sand out of an hourglass...and playing with it.

(Via Very Short List)

"Snooker Hinge Palin"?

Today's time waster: the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator.

In a single bound

Time Out presents some online Gotham games.

Edgar Allen Poe 2.0

Your favorite authors, flow-charted.

(Via Sarah.)

Slap happy

Another Japanese time-waster, courtesy Angela.

Play PERSONAL DAYS Boggle!

A reader has devised a new game. Here's how to play:

1) Buy a copy of Personal Days.
2) Study the cover.
3) Form words the way you would in Boggle.
4) Delight your friends with sentences like “Don Renado, renal RNA doper, pares open one pod layer per eon.”

Sick day

Office mole Angela sends us a link to this game, which a coworker e-mailed to her...(It's related to this previously posted time waster.)

Time waster: Japanese island game

Check out this game. It's like SimCity on an island—in Japanese! With some surreal flourishes. A minute to learn (sort of), a lifetime to master. We don't even know what it's called.

(Via Angela W.)