Title says it all, for those of us out of school, what's your favorite way to kill time at work. My job is either boring or busy depending on the week, and the boring weeks drag on (especially in the summer). I used to browse reddit and slowly make my way through my reader feed, but that's kind of boring now.

as a software developer i have a lot of "compiling" time http://xkcd.com/303/

Here is my usual time wasters in no particular order:

my webcomics: xkcd, explosm, thedoghousediaries, geekandpoke, pidjin
blogs: blogto.com (a blog about my city), gamesradar.com, engadget.com, xbox360Achievements.org
Linksites: reddit.com
Other: thinkgeek.com (i have a lot of stuff from here, if you don't your missing out)
kickstater.com(i have backed 2 games already at some top tier collectors items levels)
board.dotanoobs.com
facebook.com
twitter.com
yelp.ca (my buddy and i try a new restaurant in our city every week, we are gonna start a review blog this summer)
currently reading a lot of arduino stuff to for my summer projects

http://www.phoboslab.org/ztype/

^It's a accuracy/speed typing game kind of like "Typing of the Dead". It runs in a browser. Bonus: When you play it, it sounds like you are getting work done.

For a Dota fix, www.purgegamers.com is my favorite. He had lots of stuff in his archive and streams professional games as well as PUB games for most of the day. I often leave his stream on and listen to the audio. It's like listening to baseball on the radio. (Radio was this thing before the internet - it was basically low bandwidth, super long range free wi-fi that only carried one audio stream per block of frequencies).

Also: www.smbc-comics.com, www.feywinds.com (you know you like nerdy, fantasy stuff), www.sinfest.net (SFW), maddox.xmission.com, www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation (funny computer/console game reviews)

Reddit and twitch.tv usually, i luckily have my own office so i get away with it

I have my own office, but unfortunately my company does block a decent amount of the internet. Crosswords have been helping recently.

Same deal at work... I just tunnel all my browser traffic over a ssh-tunnel to my VPS and get stuff that way. Even forces me to keep Putty open just to use IRSSI

I have no idea what that meant, however it does sound smart!

in simpler words, he tells his computer to go to the internet through a secret detour, because his company is a big old construction company closing all roads to his destination.

ELI5 tunnelling through a VPS

Hell, even I understand what I was saying better now.

Thank you!

as someone who has taught 100+ people what the lesson our professor just lectured to us. dumbing down explanations is something i am really good at (its also how i passed my cryptography and network securities course)

I've taken 2 NetSec courses and they where a total joke. I mean I know that defining "Worm, Virus, Trojan, Blog, Email Spam" is a necessity, and talking about security policies and all that is something you need to know.... but when is my Uni going to offer a Metasploit class you know?

it wont, uni's teach you theory, it is your prerogative to apply it to external resources.
and the worst part is the crypto. i'm talking about full on Public/Private key generating and message hashing for confidentiality and sending authourity.
its a pain in the ass remembering all the details you need for different key standards and security standards. still got the highest mark in the class though, prof thought i was a genius for without any prior knowledge of quantum computers determining the correct way to find the 2 prime numbers that factor into an even larger number used to generate RSA and other public/private keys.

if your interested look into Shor's algorithm of factoring large numbers and Public/Private Key Cryptography. its some awesome stuff if your into network security.

I realize it's kind out out-of-scope for a college course, but that's the reason that some guy with his shiny degree and CompTIA cert will usually know quite a bit less than someone who is sincerely interested and motivated to learn the topics at hand.

IMO its not even interest in the topic. i told myself the day i stop being interested in learning something new is the day my life is not worth continuing. To this day i still have a child like curiosity in experiencing and learning something new. if you are bored while sitting on the computer, take up some hacksites. rankk.org is my favorite alongside lost-chall.org (it is a hacksite with a lost theme)