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April 9, 2018

Starting MongoDB Database Software

MongoDB Database Software

In this blog post, we will cover how to start MongoDB database software in the three most used platforms: Windows/Linux/MacOS.

If you have just started with NoSQL databases, you might wonder how to evaluate if MongoDB is a good fit for your application.

Percona provides a signed version of MongoDB called Percona Server for MongoDB with a couple of enterprise-grade features included free of charge that runs on all Linux flavors. We also support MongoDB, please check out our support page. But, what if you’re running a test on your study laptop, PC or not. How do you easily start a mongod process for testing? Below I demonstrate how to start MongoDB database software on the three most popular operating systems.

Microsoft Windows

First of all, be aware of this hotfix: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/2731284/33-dos-error-code-when-memory-memory-mapped-files-are-cleaned-by-using.

You might need to restart the computer after applying the fix. Then download the .zip file. The website only offers an MSI, but we don’t want to install the binaries, we just want to run it.

Click here to download the 3.4.10 version:
http://downloads.mongodb.org/win32/mongodb-win32-x86_64-2008plus-ssl-3.4.10.zip

After the download, use your favorite decompressing tool to extract the MongoDB executables. Then cut the extracted folder to your Documents or C: or even a memory stick (but don’t expect high performance):

Inside of the bin folder, create a data folder. We are going to use this folder to save our databases.

Now we have everything we need to start the database. Open the CMD, and run the following commands to start the database:

C:mongodbbinmongod --dbpath C:mongodbbindata

You will see an output like:

This means the process is running.

In a different CMD, connect to the database using:

C:mongodbbinmongo.exe

I’ve passed the –quiet to omit the warnings:

And here we go, MongoDB is running on a windows machine!

MacOS and Linux configuration:

For macOS, the process is very similar to Windows. The difference is that we can take advantage of the extensive bash commands that the UNIX-like system offers.

Open the terminal. Go to our home/Downloads folder:

cd ~/Downloads

Download MongoDB for MacOS or Linux:

wget https://fastdl.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-ssl-x86_64-3.6.3.tgz
Download mongodb for Linux:
wget https://fastdl.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.6.3.tgz
untar the file:
tar -xvzf mongodb-osx-ssl-x86_64-3.6.3.tgz
Change the folder name to mongodb // just to make it easier
mv mongodb-osx-x86_64-3.6.3/ ~/Downloads/mongodb
Right now all the binaries are on ~/Downloads/mongodb/
Create a folder to save the database is in ~/Downloads/mongodb/bin/
mkdir ~/Downloads/mongodb/bin/data
Start the mongod process
./mongod --dbpath data

The output must be similar to:

On a different tab run:

~/Downloads/mongodb/bin/mongo

At this point, you should be able to use MongoDB with the default options on MacOS or Linux.

Note that we aren’t enabling authentication either configuring a replica set.

If we don’t pass the –quiet parameter we will receive a few warnings like:

2018-03-16T14:26:20.868-0300 I CONTROL  [initandlisten]
I CONTROL  [initandlisten] ** WARNING: Access control is not enabled for the database.
I CONTROL  [initandlisten] **  Read and write access to data and configuration is unrestricted.
I CONTROL  [initandlisten]
I CONTROL  [initandlisten] ** WARNING: This server is bound to localhost.
I CONTROL  [initandlisten] **          Remote systems will be unable to connect to this server.
I CONTROL  [initandlisten] **       Start the server with --bind_ip <address> to specify which IP
I CONTROL  [initandlisten] **  addresses it should serve responses from, or with --bind_ip_all to
I CONTROL  [initandlisten] **   bind to all interfaces. If this behavior is desired, start the
I CONTROL  [initandlisten] **          server with --bind_ip 127.0.0.1 to disable this warning.
I CONTROL  [initandlisten]

For more information about how to configure those parameters, please refer to the following blog post and or documentation:

https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/12/15/mongodb-3-6-security-improvements/

https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/05/17/mongodb-authentication-and-roles-creating-your-first-personalized-role/

https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/08/12/tuning-linux-for-mongodb/

To stop the mongod process, use ctrl+c (on any operating system) in the server window.

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April 9, 2018

GunVideo.com – New Video Sharing Website by Lenny Magill

GunVideo.com - New Video Hosting Website by Lenny Magill (2) Lenny Magill, the owner and CEO of GlockStore.com, has recently published a video announcement addressing the new YouTube strict policies regarding firearm-related content. He has created a new website (GunVideo.com) to have a safe platform for hosting their videos and which may also become a video sharing platform for other content creators in the industry. Glock […]

Musk’s Flamethrower Looks Like a Toddler’s Toy Next to This Jet-Powered Fire Tornado Cannon

If you weren’t able to scrape together $500 to buy Elon Musk’s fund-raising flamethrower, YouTube’s Jairus of All has a cheaper, DIY alternative that instead spews a massive spinning tornado of fire using a pair of ducted fans and a tank of liquid propane worn as a backpack.

Jairus’ cannon has a wonderful ‘banned science fair experiment’ aesthetic to it, but it also looks like something Wile E. Coyote would have ordered from the ACME catalog in another ill-conceived attempt to take out the Road Runner. Although, in the wrong hands, Jarius’ creation looks like it could easily take out a small bird, or a nearby planet.

[YouTube via The Awesomer]

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Musk’s Flamethrower Looks Like a Toddler’s Toy Next to This Jet-Powered Fire Tornado Cannon

April 9, 2018

No Amount Of Spin Will Make This Gun Control Movement Different

The anti-gunners want to believe this time will be different. In truth, they might be right. Politicians are notoriously wishy-washy when it comes to polling numbers, and many polls seem to be showing broad support for gun control measures, at least in part. It’s not hard to imagine that gun rights are in real jeopardy this time.

However, let’s also be realistic. This particular gun control movement isn’t any different, despite what some people may try and claim (via The Christian Century).

When Sam Zeif met with President Trump after the mass shooting at his high school in Parkland, Florida, he broke down in frustration and tears. “How have we not stopped this?” he asked. “After Columbine? After Sandy Hook?”

Zeif’s outrage is understandable. It’s also easy to understand those who have become cynical about political leaders’ persistent unwillingness to tackle gun violence. More than 200 school shootings have taken place since the murders at Columbine, Colorado, in 1999. About 39,000 gun deaths happen each year in the United States. Legislators have mourned but done nothing to address the problem. No meaningful gun control legislation has been passed at the federal level since 1994, when a ban on certain semiautomatic weapons was tucked into the crime bill. That ban expired in 2004.

A couple of points.

First, of those 39,000 deaths, two-thirds are suicides. That tends to be left out when that number is mentioned, and it’s important. Most people understand that you won’t stop suicides by banning the tools people use to commit suicide. If you do that, you’ll eventually have to ban gravity as well. Most of that number is the result of people making a decision and acting on that decision, often without hurting anyone else. Let’s keep that in mind.

Second, since they brought up the assault weapon ban from 1994, it should also be noted that crime was trending downward before the law was passed and continued downward since the law sunset. In other words, the law had no appreciable impact on crime. Imagine that.

Additionally, a red wave overtook Congress following that bill’s passage, which made even Democrats wary of passing gun control legislation.

But the hundreds of thousands of people who gathered at March for Our Lives rallies in late March offered hope that a new movement is under way, led by teens who have seen the trauma of gun violence firsthand and say: no more. What’s hopeful about the latest movement, besides the refreshing leadership of uncynical students, is how it has avoided some of the patterns that have paralyzed previous efforts.

If by “refreshing leadership of uncynical students,” you mean leadership funded by astroturf movements and consisting of foul-mouthed and uninformed individuals, then sure. It’s refreshing.

To start with, the student-led movement has recognized that gun violence affects everyone; it is an issue for people of all races and places. It is an issue that should unite Americans, not divide them.

In her speech at the rally in Washington, 17-year-old Jaclyn Corin acknowledged the racial divide that has to be overcome on this issue. In 2012, black teenagers occupied Florida’s state capitol to protest the shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin—without getting the kind of attention the Parkland survivors are getting. “But we share this stage today and forever with those communities who have always stared down the barrel of a gun,” said Corin. Edna Chavez, a student from South Los Angeles, was one of the speakers at the Washington rally. “I learned to duck from bullets before I learned to read,” she said.

When are these people going to stop pretending that gun violence is somehow worse than any other form of violence? If your loved one is killed, it doesn’t matter if it was done with a gun or a knife, they’re just as dead. A gun is a tool, but it’s also a tool that is used to save far more lives than take them.

The real problem is violence, plain and simple. Taking away a tool doesn’t make violence go down. In fact, it increases. Take London, for example. England has strict gun control measures, measures that would never fly in the United States even in this current environment. Now London has a higher murder rate than New York City.

If you’re serious about stopping violence, you need to find out why people are violent in the first place. Refusing to start there just shows us you’re not serious about the issue.

The movement also has avoided partisan politics. “This isn’t about the GOP. This isn’t about the Democrats,” said student Cameron Kasky. “This is about us creating a badge of shame for any politicians who are accepting money from the [National Rifle Association] and using us as collateral.” Judging from past failures at gun control, effective strategies and rhetoric will be issue-oriented, not party-oriented.

Yes, Kasky said that.

But the March for Our Lives also featured a lot of bashing of the Republican Party. Marco Rubio has been a repeated target of David Hogg’s, as well as the target of ire for many of the movement’s followers. A look at the signs at the walkouts and the marches show just how wrong this claim is.

Donald Trump called Hogg, Kasky’s fellow traveler, in hopes of having a thoughtful discussion, and Hogg bragged about hanging up on the man. Here he is, the President of the United States, someone who you have to get on your side if you want national level gun control, and Hogg hangs up on him. Why? Because bashing Trump is cool.

But yeah, totally non-partisan.

Third, the movement has focused on electoral process. It has called on young people to register to vote and to hold candidates accountable. “We are going to take this to every election, to every state and every city,” said Parkland student David Hogg. “When politicians send their thoughts and prayers with no action, we say no more.”

And will they?

See, everyone knows that democracy belongs to those who show up. This isn’t new, and the strategy isn’t new. There’s a reason why so many movements also try to include voter registration drives.

But the March for Our Lives only included a very vocal subsection of American youth. There were many more who never showed up at a march. Still, others are rallying in support of the Second Amendment, because even people who don’t own guns can see that taking away our rights in such a way could have horrible ramifications.

However, let’s not kid ourselves; this movement isn’t any different than the ones in the past. It’s the same movement with many of the same people involved behind the scenes. It has a few new, young faces, but they’re spouting the same old lines. Claims of non-partisanship are lies designed to mislead people who won’t look for themselves, hoping the animosities of the past aren’t noticed this time around.

But all this is, in reality, the same old gun control movement dressed up in a shiny new outfit. It’s the same tactics, the same bogus statistics, and the same rhetoric.

Anyone who claims otherwise is either delusional or a liar.

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April 8, 2018

Chadwick Boseman Reprised His Role as T’Challa on Last Night’s Saturday Night Live

Chadwick Boseman bringing the King to SNL.

Last night, Chadwick Boseman took a well-deserved victory lap hosting Saturday Night Live, and in the process he naturally returned to the role that’s defined 2018: the Black Panther.

In a compelling rendition of SNL’s recurring Black Jeopardy sketch, T’Challa takes his place in the competition alongside Leslie Jones and Chris Redd’s African American competitors, where he delights and disappoints host Darnell Hayes (Kenan Thompson, the most dedicated sketch actor in history) by showcasing the gulf of experience between his privileged, utopian Wakandan life and the norms of the United States.

Boseman does great here as the delightful fish-out-of-water king, and he eventually gets the hang of it for the funny climax of the sketch. He is a wise king, after all. All hail.

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Chadwick Boseman Reprised His Role as T’Challa on Last Night’s Saturday Night Live

April 6, 2018

Composite Metal Foam (CMF) Armor Withstands 23mm HEI Shells

Composite Metal Foam (CMF) Armor Tested Against 23mm HEI Shells1 About a year ago, Professor Afsaneh Rabiei of North Carolina State University developed composite metal foam (CMF) armor plates. In a test conducted in 2017, the 1″ thick plate performed impressively against small arms bullets and managed to get NIJ Level IV certification. You can find below the video footage of that test. Recently, the NC State University has […]

Hot-air dryers suck in nasty bathroom bacteria and shoot them at your hands

Researchers found these spewing bacteria and spores.

Washing your grubby mitts is one of the all-time best ways to cut your chances of getting sick and spreading harmful germs to others. But using the hot-air dryers common in bathrooms can undo that handy hygienic work.

Hot-air dryers suck in bacteria and hardy bacterial spores loitering in the bathroom—perhaps launched into the air by whooshing toilet flushes—and fire them directly at your freshly cleaned hands, according to a study published in the April issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology. The authors of the study, led by researchers at the University of Connecticut, found that adding HEPA filters to the dryers can reduce germ-spewing four-fold. However, the data hints that places like infectious disease research facilities and healthcare settings may just want to ditch the dryers and turn to trusty towels.

Indeed, in the wake of the blustery study—which took place in research facility bathrooms around UConn—”paper towel dispensers have recently been added to all 36 bathrooms in basic science research areas in the UConn School of Medicine surveyed in the current study,” the authors note.

The research findings largely square with other data showing that hot-air dryers and jet dryers can launch and disperse germs from hands into the air and onto surfaces—essentially setting off a very dirty bathroom bomb. But the new study clearly demonstrates that the less powerful hot-air dryers can also bathe hands with germs already swirling in the wash room.

The researchers speculated that “one reason hand dryers may disperse so many bacteria is the large amount of air that passes through hand dryers, 19,000 linear feet/min at the nozzle. The convection generated by high airflow below the hand dryer nozzles could also draw in room air.”

Commode commotion

The researchers landed on that speculation by first placing plates of gelled bacteria food (agar media plates) in some of UConn’s bathrooms—either for two minutes without hot-air dryers blowing or blasting them with dryer air for 30 seconds while they were 12 inches from the nozzle. If bacteria landed on the plates, they’d begin to grow tiny, domed colonies, which researchers can then count.

In the still bathrooms, the researchers caught an average of zero to one bacterial landings per plate. When they left the plates open for 18 hours, that average leapt to 6 colonies per plate. But in the line of fire from the blowers for 30 seconds, the plates collected averages from 18 to 60, with a range as high as 254 depending on the bathroom.

The researchers concluded that those launched germs were originating from around the bathroom—not the air dryer nozzles themselves. They deduced this because the bacterial splatter could be replicated by placing tiny, sterile fans around the bathrooms (after accounting for rates of air flow and exposure times). Retrofitting the dryers with HEPA filters reduced the germ count about four-fold.

A unique ripple in the study was that the bathrooms were in the vicinity of a lab studying the harmless spore-forming bacterium Bacillus subtilis strain PS533. Though B. subtilis is a common environmental bug, this lab strain has a distinctive resistance to the antibiotic kanamycin. The researchers could easily pick it out of their bathroom samples by simply growing collected toilet germs in the presence of kanamycin—the survivors were likely PS533 and confirmed by further testing. The researchers ended up finding PS533 milling about in all the bathrooms tested—even the ones in different buildings from the lab.

Brutal blowout

Perhaps most concerning, the researchers found that the air dryers were spreading the spores of PS533. They tested this by exposing their potty germ collections to heat—which will kill growing bacteria and germinated spores but not the spores themselves—then seeing if any spores grew. They did. The researchers then found that the hand dryers were spewing spores onto the surfaces of the bathroom.

PS533 “was almost certainly dispersed throughout bathrooms in the research areas as spores, which would easily survive desiccation in room air, as well as the elevated temperatures in hand dryer air; however, growing or stationary-phase bacteria would not be nearly so hardy as spores,” the authors note. “However, the facile dispersion of one bacterial strain throughout a research facility should probably be a concern to risk assessors and risk managers when dispersion of potentially pathogenic bacteria is considered.”

In a final test, the researchers did a cursory look at some of the other bacteria the dryers were blowing around. They found that with or without a HEPA filter, the blowers stirred up potential pathogens, including Staphylococcus aureus.

The findings should be a wake-up call to managers of research and clinical settings. The authors note that Clostridium difficile—a devastating and intractable diarrheal plague—also forms spores, and researchers have found that a flushing toilet can easily launch it into the air.

“This suggests another means of C. difficile transmission and one that may not be interrupted by either hand washing or traditional surface decontamination methods,” the authors conclude. “The role of this potential mode of C. difficile transmission is worthy of future study.”

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2018. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00044-18 (About DOIs).

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Hot-air dryers suck in nasty bathroom bacteria and shoot them at your hands

April 6, 2018

Star Wars: The Last Laser Master

The Auralnauts have finished up their epic comedic retelling of the first six episodes of Star Wars with episode 6, The Last Laser Master. Follow Laser Master Duke Dirtfarmer and his friends in the fight against the Empire and its fearsome planet-killing weapon: Laser Moon II.

You can watch the five other episodes — including Jedi Party, The Friend Zone, and Revenge of Middle Management — in this playlist.

For snackier Auralnauts fare, see How to make a blockbuster movie trailer, some Bane outtakes from the Dark Knight Rises, and the Star Wars throne room scene minus the John Williams score.

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April 5, 2018

The Chmod Command and Linux File Permissions Explained

So you’ve sliced your way through all the common misconceptions about Linux, found a flavor of Linux that you like, but now you’re confused because you haven’t the faintest clue about terminal commands and Linux file permissions?

Or maybe you have a website that’s hosted on a Linux server and you’ve run into some file permission issues that can only be solved with some command line magic.

Regardless, one of the most essential Linux commands to learn

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is a small but powerful command called chmod. But before we explain what the command does, we have to first understand a little bit about how Linux handles file security.

The Basics of Linux File Permissions

Linux operating systems are actually Unix-like systems (understanding Linux vs. Unix), and Unix-like systems approach file permissions like so:

Every file has an owner, which determines the file’s “user class.” Every file also has a group, which determines the file’s “group class.” Any system user who isn’t the owner and doesn’t belong in the same group is determined to be others.

All files on Unix-like systems have permissions assigned to all three classes, and these determine which actions can be taken by said classes for the given file.

The three actions available on a Unix-like system are: read (the ability to open and view the contents of the file), write (the ability to open and modify the contents of a file), and execute (the ability to run the file as an executable program).

In other words, a file’s permissions determine whether or not:

The owner can read, write, and execute the file.
The group can read, write, and execute the file.
Anyone else can read, write, and execute the file.

Linux file permissions can be displayed in two formats.

The first format is called symbolic notation, which is a string of 10 characters: one character that represents the file type, then nine characters that represent the file’s read (r), write (w), and execute (x) permissions in order of owner, group, and others. If not permitted, the dash symbol (-) is used.

For example:

-rwxr-xr--

This means it’s a regular file with read, write, and execute permissions for the owner; read and execute permissions for the group; and only read permissions for everyone else.

The second format is called numeric notation, which is a string of three digits that each represent user, group, and other permissions, respectively. Each digit can range from 0 to 7, and each digit’s value is obtained by summing the class’s permissions:

0 means no permissions allowed.
+1 if the class can execute the file.
+2 if the class can write to the file.
+4 if the class can read the file.

In other words, the meaning of each digit value ends up being:

0: No permission
1: Execute
2: Write
3: Write and execute
4: Read
5: Read and execute
6: Read and write
7: Read, write, and execute

So the above example (-rwxr-xr--) would be 754 in numeric notation.

That’s Linux file permissions in a nutshell.

What Is Chmod?

On Unix-like systems, chmod is a system-level command that stands for “change mode” and allows you to manually change the permission settings of a file.

Not to be confused with chown, which is another system-level command on Unix-like systems that stands for “change owner” and lets you assign ownership of a file to another user, or chgrp, which stands for “change group” and assigns a file to a different group. These are important to know, but not as commonly used as chmod.

What Does Chmod 644 Mean?

Setting a file’s permissions to 644 makes it so only the owner can access and modify the file however they want while everyone else can only access without modifying, and nobody can execute the file—not even the owner. This is the ideal setting for files that are publicly accessible because it balances flexibility with security.

What Does Chmod 755 Mean?

Setting a file’s permissions to 755 is basically the same thing as 644 except everyone also has execute permissions. This is mainly used for publicly accessible directories because the execute permission is needed in order to change into a directory.

What Does Chmod 555 Mean?

Setting a file’s permissions to 555 makes it so that the file cannot be modified at all by anyone except the system’s superuser (learn more about the Linux superuser

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). This isn’t as commonly used as 644, but it’s still important to know because the read-only setting prevents accidental changes and/or tampering.

What Does Chmod 777 Mean?

Setting a file’s permissions to 777 makes it so anyone can do anything they want with the file. This is a huge security risk, especially on web servers! Literally anyone can access the file, modify it however they want, and execute it on the system. You can imagine the potential damage if a rogue user got their hands on it.

How to Use Chmod on Linux

The chmod command has a simple format:

chmod [permissions] [file]

Permissions can be given in numeric notation, which is the best format to use when you want to assign specific permissions for all classes:

chmod 644 example.txt

Permissions can also be given in symbolic notation, which is useful when you only want to modify the permissions of a particular class. For example:

chmod u=rwx example.txt
chmod g=rw example.txt
chmod o=rw example.txt

You can modify permissions for multiple classes, such as this example which sets the owner to read/write/execute but the group and others to read/execute:

chmod u=rwx,g=rw,o=rw example.txt

When assigning the same permissions to multiple classes, you can combine them:

chmod u=rwx,go=rw example.txt

But the beauty of using symbolic notation shines when you only want to add or remove the permission for a particular action for a particular class.

For example, this adds the execute permission for the file’s owner:

chmod u+x example.txt

And this removes the write and execute permissions for other users:

chmod o-wx example.txt

Lastly, if you want to apply a particular set of permissions to all files and folders within a particular directory (i.e. a recursive chmod), use the -R option and target a directory:

chmod -R 755 example_directory

While the chmod command looks a bit crazy at first glance, it’s actually quite simple and entirely logical. If you understand the above, you’ve basically mastered chmod!

Learn More About Mastering Linux

Commands like chmod, chown, and chgrp are just the tip of the Linux iceberg. If you’re brand new to the operating system, we recommend checking out these neat tricks for Linux newbies as well as these Linux commands you should never run.

But most importantly, you’d do best by checking out our comprehensive beginner’s guide to Ubuntu and Linux

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, which will teach you everything you need to know to get started and familiarized enough to feel comfortable.

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April 5, 2018

15 Fun Websites for Instantly Beating Boredom Online

Even Steve Jobs was a fan of boredom. He believed that boredom allowed room for creativity. We all know how that turned out.

So, why don’t you take a page out of the latest from mind science and celebrate the doldrums of inactivity? You can do a lot of random things on the internet

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, but here are the best sites to visit if you need to kill some time.

Open The Secret Door - best Fun Websites to beat boredom

It won’t open into a dark nook at Hogwarts, but it can take you to equally unexpected places around the world. The idea is simple — open the secret door and let Google’s Street View transport you to an interesting place on the globe.

Think of it as a portal for virtual globetrotting. And if you don’t like it, just click the Take Me Somewhere Else button. It definitely ranks as one of the more fun ways to use Google Maps and Street View

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? Maybe, the sound of a dial-up modem will do it for you or the dial of a rotary phone. The Museum of Nostalgia will send you back in time. The single-person effort from Brendan Chilcutt aims to preserve the signature sounds of old technologies.

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This neat website will cure your boredom with a thunderbolt of inspiration. Maybe, just a gentle prod if you aren’t a writer. But if you are a person of the pen then try the creative writing prompts

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on the site that will make you think about unfamiliar situations. The online tool is also an Amazon Alexa skill now.

NSA Haiku Generator - best Fun Websites to beat boredom

You wouldn’t combine the NSA and poetry even within a few words of each other. But this automatic haiku generator manages to pull it off. So, go ahead and stoke your wildest imagination with weird mashups of wonderful syllables.

The source of the random words is the NSA’s database of search terms it uses to red flag terrorist threats.

Sketch Something - best Fun Websites to beat boredom

Creativity is the magic pill to zap boredom. Sketch Something Daily is the antidote to your artistic mental blocks. So, pick up a pencil, pen, or even a paintbrush to take on a daily sketch challenge with the help of the illustrations here.

Try it as a daily habit and stifle the yawns as you interest yourself enough to learn the basics of drawing

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with the help of other sites on the web.

One Tiny Hand - best Fun Websites to beat boredom

Apply a Photoshop trick to one part of the human anatomy and you have a viral hit. One Tiny Hand gazes at only one thing and make you laugh at the images of celebrities with one hand reduced in size.

Surprisingly, the Tumblr blog started with Beyoncé Knowles and not the two head of states who are parodied often.

2 Kinds of People - best Fun Websites to beat boredom

Another humorous Tumblr blog. Another dosage of laughter. The simple illustrations show that there are only two kinds of people in the world. Those that have a sense of humor and the rest who don’t.

If you fall in the former, then you will have cured your boredom. If not, read on.

Stinkmoji - best Fun Websites to beat boredom

Switch on your speakers. Turn on your webcam. And make a face at your computer. Stinkmoji is a face recognition experience that uses a 3D emoji to mimic the faces you make at the camera. It even includes an Easter egg when you open your mouth wide enough.

Oh, just make sure it’s not on your list of timewaster websites when you are in the office

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YouTube alone can take care of your lifelong boredom. So, I am cheating by mentioning the Gross Science channel. But, I couldn’t help myself as I got pulled in by all the bizarre but scientific videos here.

So, find out about clothes made of slime. Or, why your pee can change the world. As I said, I couldn’t help myself.

The Innovation Station - best Fun Websites to beat boredom

While we are on the subject of science and videos, could I also mention Innovation Station? This website alone could give you enough energy to ward off boredom. It showcases the latest videos on innovation and futuristic technologies.

It is a wonderful learning platform. As their charter says, “We aim to inspire and educate by putting innovations and innovators in the spotlight.”

Weird or Confusing - best Fun Websites to beat boredom

Wonder how unicorn meat tastes. This site will make you wonder about things like that. Press the button and it will beam you into the crazy aisles of eBay and its shopping universe where everything can be sold.

Well, it’s not all useless. That inflatable unicorn horn for cats sounds like a better deal than unicorn meat. Just hope it’s not a new eBay scam

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frankenSim - best Fun Websites to beat boredom

The web toy is a wonderful simulation project by a London based animation studio. Here, you get to play “God” or Victor Frankenstein. The interactive may sound grotesque but it interesting as you manipulate the different organs and see what results.

In short, the developers say that this is a musing on how Frankenstein might have experimented with modern web tools.

The Symphony of Blockchain - best Fun Websites to beat boredom

Visuals can help you understand even the most complex of technologies. Blockchain and cryptocurrency are all the rage now. The Symphony of Blockchain takes you on an interactive, visual and auditory exploration of what it’s all about.

It’s wonderfully hypnotic as the 3D Bitcoin blocks move and expand against the background of music. Click on each block and it opens to give you more information.

The Passive Aggressive Password Machine - best Fun Websites to beat boredom

Let’s not underrate the value of a strong password

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in keeping the world safe. The PaP Machine is a neat little side project that can bring you out of your boredom fairly quickly with its funny and honest feedback on the strength of your passwords.

Arbitrary Awards - best Fun Websites to beat boredom

Did you know that most awards are paid for? Well, if you didn’t then that’s what this site tells you. The developers here made their own awards and gave you a platform to gift yourself one with the many choices available.

You deserve an award if you have scrolled so far down the page. And, if we managed to cure your boredom then we deserve one too. Just a nice word in the comments will do for now.

The Cure for Boredom Is Curiosity

We cycle back to what dreamers and achievers believe in. And to add an official stamp of approval to it, let me tell you about the Boredom Conference held every year. Yes, it is a scientific conference with a scholarly purpose.

So, don’t try your best to zap your boredom. Use it creatively and who knows you just might light up a new motivation

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