When you’re not busy playing with your brand new Android phone, SSH’ing into the webserver or just tweeting up a storm with it, the monumental not-just-a-search-engine-anymore has found new and improved ways to waste your time.

The internet exploded on itself with Pac-Man nostalgia yesterday when Google’s logo became a playable version of the game on it’s 30th anniversary. It was a blast, I even played a few rounds (on my lunch break, of course). But the most surprising news to me about the logo was not that it had sound or that you could play as Mrs. Pac-Man or even that it wasn’t done in flash so iProducts could play along…it was actually the amount of productivity that is sucked from the world in one fell swoop.

Rescue Time reckons that the productivity loss for a bit of arcade action was a whopping 4.8 million hours! Just for a one day logo swap! It just boggles the mind.

There’s other interesting tidbits and the rest of the report at the Rescue Time blog.

Oh and just in case you wanted to waste a bit of your day today, Google’s made Pac-Man permanent.