Super productive websites to visit when the Spring Weekend tickets server crashes
Spring Weekend is just around the corner, but before we can see the headliners that we just started listening to a month ago, we have to endure the arduous ticket purchasing process. It's hard to maintain your hype when half the school tries to buy tickets at the same time and your web page inevitably freezes. Fortunately, there are a few alternative websites you can utilize while you wait for your order to go through a system that probably still uses Myspace.The Useless WebEver been scrolling through obscure corners of the internet an hour before your paper was due, searching for ways to procrastinate, and wondered, why can’t this be simpler? Well, wonder no more, because The Useless Web's entire purpose is to facilitate your exploration of all facets of the internet, unproductive as that may be. The Useless Web won’t bring you to any old shopping website or search engine. Rather, this website will guide you to a plethora of pages that exist simply because some CS nerd had too much time and/or money on their hands.Flight Radar 24Did you like airplanes as a kid? Did you want to be a pilot before you gave up on your dreams and declared an Econ concentration? Do you just like contemplating conspiracy theories about the missing Malaysian Airlines plane? Well good news for you: Flight Radar 24 allows you to watch, in real time, all of the major vessels in the sky at any given moment. This website is perfect if you want to observe airplane icons slowly creeping across a screen and think about how terrible air travel is.Weave SilkFor a visually perplexing experience, just visit Weave Silk, where you can create beautiful patterns of bright colors simply by dragging your mouse across the screen. Although these images might not come close to the drug-induced visuals your fellow students will experience during the Spring Weekend concert, Weave Skill is a fun tool that will make you say, “Oh, that’s neat I guess.” 
Hodor LanguageA message for any software-interested students reading this: you should not only visit the above website but also dedicate your concentration to improving the registration servers on Courses@Brown so it becomes less of a mess. Anyways, Hodor Language is an innovative CS language that reads like any other C-based language but embodies the feeling of a chicken programming language. Although there's not much use behind it, Hodor Language will open your mind to innovative new computer ideas like creating an entire language that can't even perform Hello World.
Is Your Girlfriend a Horse?We all love taking distracting online quizzes about which Harry Potter character we would be or what type of kitchen floor is our spirit animal, but this quiz offers more useful feedback. For anybody out there waiting for the server to refresh on Nuelion who has even the slightest suspicion that their girlfriend could be a horse, this quiz could relieve your worries and potentially save you from committing your life to the least relevant farm animal. Just make sure that your girlfriend isn’t in the room when you take this quiz. Maybe try getting her to leave by mentioning that there's hay outside.Images via, via, and via.
