Got bandwidth? Use it!
Probably the only time you’ll have heaps of unused bandwidth lying around the place is over the December/January break, when your employees, children or other bandwidth-hoggers have left the building. Looking for a few fun things to do with it to ensure you get full value from your service provider by using up all your expensive bandwidth allocation (beyond the boring and quasi-illegal downloading of movies and MP3s)?
Try these options if you haven’t already.
1.
www.LiveLeak.com
LiveLeak is a little like YouTube, just with slightly…no, MUCH more adult content. And that’s not adult in the porno sense either. With half of Iraq either in the process of exploding, or cooling from a recent blast, there is a good deal of footage of what really happens ‘out there’. It’s not just military clips, either – accidents, catastrophes and carnage from around the world features. Not for the faint hearted or squeamish.
2.
www.secondlife.com
If reality isn’t what you had hoped for, try carving out a happier existence online. Second Life is a surreal experience in which your avatar has a whole world to explore and literally live in. You can earn and spend money (Linden Dollars) and do almost anything you can do in the real world. It is a parallel existence – hence the name. You can even earn a real living by selling virtual services to any one of the millions of people who inhabit Second Life; you can exchange Linden Dollars for greenbacks and blow them in real life. Careful, though. It is addictive.
3.
www.youtube.com
Everyone knows about YouTube since the Googlemeisters bought the company out for considerably more than a billion dollars. This site is more than just a time waster, too. Use it to find lessons on everything from how to play the guitar (or your choice of instrument, be it stringed, woodwind or brass) to cooking the perfect egg. It’s an incredible resource which demonstrates in many ways the real power of video+internet.
4.
www.rotten.com/library
OK so its not a big bandwidth-eater, but Rotten’s library is one of the most fascinating resources available on the Web. It presents some of history’s more interesting (and obscure) events and personalities in an inimitable style which will have you hooked for hours of reading and research. Double check the facts presented by keeping
www.wikipedia.org
open in a separate tab; there are some discrepancies as certain facts are presented differently (in accordance with the principle that history is written by the winners).
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