Movies, music, books, TV — the cost of keeping oneself entertained can add up, especially heading into blockbuster-heavy months of the summer. Fear not! We’ve got your budget covered. Check back every day this week for more posts on how to find the best in cheap — and free! — options.
Yesterday, while planning an upcoming vacation, I unearthed the following rare — you might even say long-Lost — footage of mysterious EW.com time traveler Dr. Anne Candelabra and her gawky test subject whose real name rhymes with "Gosh Polk." I had foolishly been about to use my credit card to purchase concert tickets, DVD box sets, new tunes to absorb while gloriously offline, and more to consume during my time away. But all of that is bogus. Let’s be honest: I can barely afford coffee. I had to resort to begging for free cookies on PopWatch in order to feed myself afternoon snacks.
Now, thanks to the orientation film for The Value Initiative’s Station Free: Entertain Me, it has hit me like an electromagnetic force field: I can be constantly entertained for zero dollars without ever leaving my computer. And if this lifestyle will one day make me as well-adjusted and normal as the two winners in the video? B-O-N-U-S. Triple Word Score. I’m already playing free Scrabble.
What about you? What’s your favorite web-based freebie?
OMG, that was too awesome. I hope non LOST fans watch that and are just completely baffled to why Anne Candelabra’s left arm doesn’t work. They put a W in rawk. That’s fun.
For games: http://www.conceptispuzzles.com – Weekly new logic games and puzzles. Ad free and intuitive to play. Sudoku, battleships, fill-a-pix, and my new fave: Calculoduko.
For humor: http://www.fwfr.com – The Four Word Film Review. Outrageous puns, weekly obituary contests from contributors around the world.
Ha! I love this!
Here’s some more waycool fun fre stuff~
http://sweetestbaboon.blogspot.com/
*enjoy*
Is there something EW.com staff can do about the constant spam and incessant URL posting in the comment sections of the site?
Annie-
Can you please got tell Slezak we need our Idolatry?
Thanks.
To DS9Sisko. The writer asked for “your favorite web-based freebie”. It’s kinda useless to do that without giving a URL. The ones I suggested aren’t exploitative, simply entertaining, with no significant ads, no charges and no spamming. When it comes to those moronic “I’m web-dating a millionaire” sites, then, yes, Amen, I thoroughly agree.
EW blog spammers beware: The end is nigh…
Hysterical! Awesome!
hysterical…
who new dharma cared about my budget, or lack there off.
Craig’s List Personals never disappoints. A sample:
“Music is a Big Part of My Life…What Say You? m4w – 22 (SFV) – Reply to: pers-bvbzp1152975046@craigslist.org
Date: 2009-05-03, 6:18PM PDT
The title says it all…..I love music…..even though I don’t know the history of every band or artist…you just can’t help but enjoy every song that you hear. With different genre’s in this life time you can’t help but like it. From “Stand by me” by Ben E. King to “When Dove’s Cry” by Prince, From “Take On Me” by Ah Ha to “My Own Worst Enemy” by Lit, From “Crawling” by Linkin Park to “One mic” by Nas…..I can go on & on….Their so much music that you can’t even name them all….thats how much music that I can desire to love, listen and dance to. So with that said to start off our conversation…why not tell me your desire’s? Doesn’t have to be about music but something you truly love and hey maybe chat about it. =) so let’s start off with good impression’s..”
AMAZING.
Next time you use Apple’s Motion stock film flash effect, remember to turn the alpha channel on so that it’s transparent and you don’t get the whole frame black with the “glowing” light curl.
loved, loved, loved it. Annie, you rawk!
Completely awesome. Love Annie’s fake arm moves! More, please.
Great marketing ploy. I loved it!!