If you don’t have StumbleUpon, your life is not complete. It has brought hours of wasted time for me and however many other people have come across its brilliance…

Case in point, the likebetter game. It’s simple. They show you two pictures, and you pick which one you like better. It’s not based on any criteria, just pick which one you like better. After a few selections, the brain icon changes, letting you know that the game knows something about you based on what you selected.

At first, this thing was dead on, correctly guessing 10 things about me based on my choices. After a while, it was down to getting 2 out of 3 right, but that’s not so bad considering the basic premise.

It would be interesting to see their algorithm and what they assigned as attributes to certain photos. And I must say that after doing it for a while you start to think about the photos more before making a choice. If I pick the picture of the churchy stained-glass, what are they taking from that? Are they going to say that I’m a conservative? That I’m religious? That I’m into classical art, or things made out of glass? Who knows, but still a good use of a little downtime.

And if you’re looking for stumble, you have to be using Firefox, not Internet Explorer. Check it out here.