MetaFilter posts tagged with websurfing

Pearls of Distraction and Disunderstanding

arcticwoman — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:01:35 -0800

PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game. Players play without playing; clicking around the internet turns into experience points and currency. Players can bomb each other, wage war over web sites, and lead other users on web missions. Ordinary web sites become caches for items and currency. PMOG fuses an MMO into our WWW.

patrickje — Thu, 09 May 2002 12:41:11 -0800

Web of Distraction. Does the web cause you to lose time, having a hard time stopping browsing, and starting working? I know for me, the sheer inertia of browsing, it's hard to start working.

jackstark — Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:53:00 -0800

Boeing is upping the chance you'll be able to surf while you fly.. Question is: will more of these devices also mean a lower price?

grumblebee — Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:52:29 -0800

Etour.com claims it's like "channel surfing" on the web, but it isn't. Surfing is something in-between purposefully seeking a goal and letting the wind blow you wherever it wishes. It's not totally random. It's not totally goal-driven. So it must involve a human who is making half-choices, taking half-risks. It can't be programmed. [more…]

Neale — Mon, 07 Aug 2000 17:19:16 -0800

Has the nytimes login workaround http://www10.nytimes stopped working as well? I'm getting a login page. First partners.nytimes, now www10... what's the world coming to?