Recently
television schedules seem to be full of repeats: programmes are not only
repeated during the same week nowadays, they get repeated every four hours on
some channels. Even with hundreds of channels available it is difficult to find
something new and interesting to watch. It isn’t just the general entertainment
channels that do this the documentary channels are just as bad. Well here is an
alternative for you which will satisfy your desire for knowledge and need for
entertainment: “stumbling”.
There is an
excellent add-on available for the Firefox browser, which I believe is also
available for other browsers called Stumbleupon. It is my favourite internet
tool and has been for a long time. When you sign up for Stumbleupon, which is
easy and does not involve giving many personal details you are taken through a
plethora of subjects from which you choose the ones that you are interested in.
I have chosen interests that cover a range of topics, from sociology to ancient
history, UFOs, my favourite types of music, horror films, and so on. Altogether
I have chosen over one hundred topics of interest. Once the choices are made
and the sign up is complete a “Stumble” toolbar is added to your browser. I
promise you, with this add on installed your days of boredom are over.
If you get
periods of time when you would like to unwind but can’t really find something
to do just hit the stumble button and it will take you to a page from one of
your interests. Pressing the button will choose from your interests at random and
find a photo, news item, video or site. It is also possible to select to
stumble just videos or photos, or to choose just one particular interest or
site to stumble. You can also stumble within certain popular sites such as
youtube, flikr, Wikipedia and many others. It is amazing how many times I have
found items I would never have thought of looking for but have found
fascinating or enlightening.
No matter
what your interests are you will find stumbleupon a useful tool. I have found
hundreds of pages and sites that are saved in to my favourites. Any time I am
bored I stumble and it doesn’t take me long to find something new and
interesting. Sometimes I remove some subjects and replace them with new ones
for a bit of variety. I have some amazing photographs saved that I am sure I
would never have thought to go and look for.
I don’t
generally recommend anything because I am one of lifes cynics but I think that
Stumbleupon is worth it. Give it a try: its free so you have nothing to lose.
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