# 79: Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena

Prepare to waste the rest of your time at the office, your day off, your early holiday, whatever you’re doing basically is about to be superseded by a black hole of fun, web-based indulgence. The dudes at FHM have compiled a fairly exhaustive list of web-based curiosities, resources and time-wasters, entitled The 100 Greatest Websites Ever.

Some are very frat-y like the Playboy Archive at number 76, or the MAME arcade game emulator at number 63. Still, there are some old favorites, some practical tools and some new toys to be plundered from FHM’s massive list. So, here is Listicles’ top 10 from within their 100 Greatest Websites Ever:

• Subservient Chicken (# 99): Exploitative in so many creepy ways, this online Burger King promotional device lets you type commands to a person in a chicken suit who then executes them via an approximated live web cam. Ask him to moonwalk and he’ll put Michael Jackson to shame.

• The Official Ninja Webpage (# 88): Pop culture novelty clans (pirates, vikings, etc.) should be so lucky to have so comprehensive and intelligent an online resource as these ninjas have created for themselves. Among the most interesting features, check out the “Sightings” section:

• Sharpmail (#74): Enabling email-based pranks for years, this clever little online tool lets you send anonymous emails and text messages to unsuspecting parties. Right now might not be the best time to fake-fire a friend, but what about pretending to contact them on behalf of an international ninja-recruitment organization?

• Wax Mail (# 61): Another slightly less useless email application, this one lets you attach audio to your messages so you can effectively speak your emails. No more misinterpreted dry sarcasm, hooray!

• WeFunk Radio (#54): This amazing Montreal-based radio show’s online component features two hour-long archived broadcasts dating back five years that you can load straight into iTunes. They play some of the best underground and old school hip hop you’ll find anywhere, and their back catalogue is nearly bottomless.

• craigslist (# 40): No less important because we all know about it (in fact, that’s what makes it so important), craigslist has pretty much supplanted eBay as the go-to place for anything and everything. Where else, dear reader, could you possibly find one of these:

Yes, it's an Arnold Schwarzenegger humidor.

• Is it Christmas? (#34): At the opposite end of the usefulness spectrum, this snappy site offers the answer to exactly the question its title poses. Now don’t forget to check on December 25th just to make sure it is indeed functioning correctly.

• Internet Meme Timeline (#21): For all manner of fast-fading internet ephemera, this site charts its progression to the top of the Googlegeist and the equally rapid reciprocal descent. Like, for instance, who remembers this classic meme from early 1999?

• Popular (# 19): Typical of internet informations penchant towards encyclopedic breadth, Tom Ewing has undertaken to review every number one single on the UK pop charts ever. He’s up to 1981 right now and gaining quickly

• Twittervision (# 7): Though the jury is still out on twitter (genius social networking or the next evolution of net narcissism?), this tool essentially grafts twitter onto Google Earth to show you every tweet as it happens, and where it happens. We, for one, are delighted to be able to follow Shaq’s thoughts and his movements.

(via COED Magazine)