time-sink

His point was to encourage parents and kids to play together, not separately, but his image reinforced the widely held notion that games are divisive, time-sink toys, not shared family experiences.

Outsiderism at the Game Developers Conference « PubliCola 2010

If you need more help, take a look at previously mentioned time-sink eliminators KeepMeOut and Freedom, then come and share your compulsive web surfing habits and any proposed solutions below.

Control And Cut Down On Compulsive Web Surfing | Lifehacker Australia 2009

Every now and again, when I see a new website, game, or service, I sense the tug of an attention black hole: a time-sink that is just waiting to fill my every discretionary moment with distraction.

Boing Boing 2009

All our great fun, are high score enabled and a great time-sink.

Have you played Atari today? Play Atari Games Online at Atari.com - The Retroist 2009

They did me a great service: after I left digg I realized it was a huge, pointless time-sink.

Slashdot Founder Questions Crowd’s Wisdom - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

For a similar strategy of blocking and controlling time-sink sites on Firefox, check out our guide to saving yourself with LeechBlock.

StayFocusd Blocks And Manages Time-Sucking Websites | Lifehacker Australia 2010

Assuming the average Google user has a "business cost" of $25 per hour, RescueTime gauged that the cost of this time-sink was around $120 million.

Google's Pacman Doodle Devoured 4.8 Million Hours Of Our Time: REPORT 2010

Keeping up to date with even the worthwhile, interesting games, is a major time-sink, though.

Becoming Gamer; or "My last ever log out." Ben Abraham 2008

The big time-sink news this week was that Google has begun to digitize the Life magazine photo archive.

Archive 2008-11-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

The big time-sink news this week was that Google has begun to digitize the Life magazine photo archive.

Zip! Toscanini leads the greatest of bands Matthew Guerrieri 2008