Ever wonder what former U.S. President George Bush would have looked like as an early-80's high school senior? Well, wonder no more!

A few quick clicks with Yearbook Yourself and you can transform yourself into a horrendously coiffed teenager from 1950 to 2000. FYI before you head over: this one's a marketing gimmick for a group of malls, so the stores you see listed on the yearbook pages take you to badly-designed mall directory web pages.

Still, it's good for a laugh. Center and scale your image, rotate it if you need to, and you're good to go. Images with glasses are particularly amusing, as they tend to appear at a slight angle - giving your photo that hapless, disheveled look. And don't feel limited by the gender selection - go ahead and do the ol' switcheroo for even more photo fun!

I'd like it if the interface allowed you to go back and tweak your photo's position and scale, but you have to start over from scratch for now. The worst part of the whole experience: winding up on a year that actually looks the way you did. Oh, the humanity!

So here at Download Squad we've been into wasting time lately. Here's another time waster, this time all about physics.

You can visit Phunland and download Phun which is a 2D physics sandbox type game. Basically you have your toolbox of gears, levers, springs, boxes and more to build whatever your heart desires. You can start with a preloaded scene that has some pieces already there or go from scratch to build whatever you want.

I chose a wagon and added some springs to make it keep smashing backwards into the wall. I am more of a word nerd than a physics nerd so this was about the extent of my capabilities.

The media page has lots of YouTube videos of phun physics in action as well as a movie explaining phun and even playing the phun theme song.

So if you need some phun fun check it out. If you're one of those people who finds physics enjoyable it just might get your creative juices moving on a boring afternoon.

[Thanks, Glenn Tobey]

I suffered through two years of physics in high school, and it's not really a subject that most people would consider an exciting way to waste time on a Friday afternoon. Well, slap me silly, Fantastic Contraption proves that physics can indeed be fun!

The goal is simple: assemble your contraption in the work area (the light blue box) and propel the pink wheel into the pink box. You're provided only a handful of simplistic components with which to build - wheels, a water-drive rod, and sticks. Assemble them like a caveman MacGuyver to reach the goal, and move on to the next level! The physics is surprisingly realistic, and the game can get quite challenging.

Registering allows you to create and save levels, and you're given given a url that links directly to your creation so you can frustrate your friends. Unfortunately, playing other user's saved games requires a $10 registration fee, but you'll have plenty of fun playing the free levels.

When we were kids, the best thing about getting a package in the mail was the bubble wrap that came in the box. Now that we're a bit older, and we can appreciate everything else that comes along with the bubble wrap, it doesn't mean we don't still get a kick out of finding every last little bubble to pop. Now, if you want to get your hands on some bubble wrap, you don't have to wait until your next package arrives. Any time you feel the itch to pop, just go here.