These are my old links. I now keep them with pinboard (see my pinboard bookmarks) and archive them on this site (see the Links page).
Categories
Unclassified | Go to top
- EGBG Counterscript A telemarketting style script to turn cold calls on their head.
- How to Fold a Shirt Remarkable!
- Look at Me A collection of found photos.
- Rachel Gets Fruity! With any luck this method of instruction will encourage people.
- Someone is a Gaylord Change the subdomain.
- Rude Food Suggestive video.
- Boing Boing Blog-like directory of interesting websites.
- Bunny suicides There are many ways a bunny can kill itself.
- LiveVault: The Institute for Backup Trauma Ridiculous site about computer backups.
- The Great John Toilet Co. Big toilets for fat people. These things are tested to 2000 lb of weight!.
- Slashdong Sex and technology.
- not pr0n A puzzle, which grows as people submit ideas. Give it a go - it's unique, and hard.
- MY WIFE, SHE DIED. IN A FIELD. *dances* Borat at his best.
- The interactive Mona Lisa Change her facial expressions.
- New Office Slang Some of these are strangely apt.
- AskTheBrain.com An automated encyclopedia which tries to infer a set of information about whatever you've searched for. You get results ranging from the absurd to the accurate. I like it because of the idea.
- Montage-a-google Make a montage from images found using Google's image search engine.
- SeatSale: License to Sit Internet Chair with magnetic stripe card reader and spikes that retract when a seating license is downloaded from a license server.
- Make your own pictures.. Add text to one of many pictures.
- STRANGEco Designers Toys, Arts and Curiosities.
- Wimp Videos, animations, pictures, games, jokes. Often funny, often not.
- Boobies for Peace Advent calendar.
- Michael's Sketchy & Sci-Fi Book Covers Amusing book covers and movie posters, mostly from the '50s and '60s.
- amazing cat collection . com An archive of cat pictures, nearly all cute or funny. Great source for photoshopping.
- bearskinrug.co.uk Interesting site by Kevin Cornell that showcases his work. I've linked it because it's unique and it's got a funky interactive bear. Check out his projects.
- Nintendogs Cool application for the new Nintendo DS.
- Boiling flask Interesting movie of a scientific experiment invloving a flash of what looks like boiling liquid.
- Virtual Mouse Cleaner
- The Joy of Sexual Physics E.g. sex at the speed of light.
- Is Your Son a Computer Hacker? Unfortunately for some kids, this is bound to be taken seriously by the odd halfwit here and there.
- Confound.com Animations, vids, pics etc etc.
- How to Tell a Democrat from a Republican
- Long Bets Bets that will not reach conclusion for at least 2 years. Example: "By 2029 no computer - or "machine intelligence" - will have passed the Turing Test." That one's got a $20,000 stake.
- No Bush Mandate Clips of Bush administration stupidities, amongst others.
- Visualize Winning What could have happened had Kerry won.
- meme Collection of submitted (one-sentance) ideas.
- Marc Perkel's Web Site This guy's got some good, funny articles, such as Marijuana - Telling Teenagers the Truth about Smoking Pot.
- How Bush Did Highlights of Bush's first debate with Kerry.
- Happy Number There's actually a mathematical definition!
- Team America World Police Film that looks hilarious. Must see it when it's released.
- Great magic trick This is one of the best card trick I've seen. Watch it twice to fully appreciate it.
- Speed Stacks Cup stacking. You should see the speed of them. Check out the video of the world record here.
- Poke Homer
- goopymart Funky cute cartoons and animation.
- "Goldfish" An intriguing video. I do wonder how they figured out it could be done though.
- Albino Blacksheet Clips, games, funny virals, etc etc.
- Motorcycle Funerals "A dignified final ride by motorcycle hearse." Completely serious too!
- 3D Stereograms Animated stereogram of a clock and a couple of still porno ones!
- PythoNet Monty Python fan site.
- Kontraband.com Clips, games, funny virals, etc etc.
- The world's flags given letter grades This guy's graded the world flags in terms of aesthetics and strength of design.
- Eurobad '74 An exhibition of Europe's worst interiors of 1974. I happen to think a lot of them are cool.
- Origami Underground Erotic origami.
- SnikkSnakk Odd news.
- Super NES Endings from the The Video Game Museum.
- newsmap A very impressive visualisation of current world news.
- Personality Disorder Test How accurate it is is anybody's guess, but it's still fun to speculate whether you're odd or not.
- Brainwave Frequency Listing A list of brainwave frequencies that can affect the human mind or body in some way.
- Peter Petrie Egg Separator Functional, not to mention classy kitchen accessory.
- werbung Sorry.
- sofake Great little interface. Just start clicking things.
- we come in peace Alien ASCII picture.
- Kooks Museum Collection of forgotten, discredited and extreme ideas.
- WebCollage A collage generated from random image searches on the web.
- Pulling Guide Funny guide to the types of women you'll find in Manchester.
- Above Top Secret A conspiracy site focused on the U.S.
- randomly.tk Random web sites and searches.
- Engrish.com Humorous English mistakes that appear in Japanese advertising and product design
- Barbelith Message-board and experimental online community which is essentially a wiki covering most topics.
- World Mythology A compendium of world mythology, consisting of descriptions of their gods.
- Astrophotography Deep-sky astronomical photographs, tips and techniques for astrophotography.
- What really happened An American conspiracy site.
- Flight 404 "Experimentation with processing" Beautiful visualisations presented using a slick, original interface.
- Online Magic
- FoldMoney.com "Fold dollars into amazing illusions".
- To the moon we go for lots of chocolate
- Slick driving Cops had a little difficulty with this one.
- Nutters Stupid but cool bike stunts.
- Childless couple told to try sex Some people eh?
- Cable Clock A Flash clock.
- Timida
- Windows Noises Soundtrack made with Window's Sound Recorder.
- The Alternative English Dictionary
- www.lodger.tv Great animations. All together slick. If it's not there try here instead.
- Phototag A project that releases cameras into the wild and (hopefully) tracks their journey.
- Where's George Track American dollar bills.
- Human target Some idiot decided it'd be fun to have an array of fireworks constructed and then launched at him.
- Pacmanhatten Pacman played on the streets of Manhatten.
- Mister Tweakathon Ridiculous but strangely amusing.
- MIGWeb - My New Car Now this is what I call a mod.
- Jeff GoldBlum is watching you poop
- Riding on Square Wheels Scientists are an odd bunch.
- A break in the road Flash animation that allows you create music by recording sounds off the streets. Watch the intro.
- Mantlepies Odd cartoons and animations etc etc.
- AlterVistas Catalogues internet oddities.
- Mirror Sytes Generate a mirror of your site (not as in the computer term "to copy"). It reverses the text AND images on your page.
- Memepool Posts of funny/interesting links.
- Cemetery Transcription Library If you want to find a dead person you may want to look here.
- Erotic Name Generate your name in naked people.
- Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division Beware of the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide. Ask the Californians.
- Mobile Asses Pictures of peoples arses taken with mobile phones. Why? Don't ask me. I guess there's a voyeur in everyone.
- Human Descent Brilliant animal hybrids.
- Humanimals Freaky human-animal hybrids.
- Bonsai Potato Quickly and efficiently reach an inner peace that can take monks an entire lifetime to achieve.
- Pen tricks video God this guy must have been bored to learn that!
- Pentrix - Pen Spinning Revolution Brilliant tricks with a pen. The videos show you how good they are. Damn he must have a lot of time to kill.
- Wireframe skeleton that you can play around with like a puppet.
- The Gematriculator See how evil/good a web site is.
- PimpHats.com Buy pimp clothing.
- The Brick Testament The Old Testament with lego.
- NaDa ..does nothing for everybody.
- Web Economy Bullshit Generator The worrying thing about this is it came up with "integrate wireless communities", which is pretty much the slogan of the company I work for.
- Mr Bling "..your source for high quality 14k, 18k and 24k in available Yellow Gold, White Gold, and Platinum custom made teeth"
- Douwe Osinga's home page This personal site has some interesting pages, such as Mapped Web and Google Hacks.
- Google Talk Type in the beginning of a sentence and let finish it. E.g. Google said "Women don't Like Hairy men AND women?". Or how about "i love to eat Pussy here at adult buffet".
- Visual Poetry Type in a sentence and have it the words replaced with images from Google's image search.
- NEWSEUM: The Commissar Vanishes Photos from the Soviet Union between 1929 to 1953 that were modified by the Communist Party to remove "enemies of the people".
- Googlism Type in a search term and get a list of what the sites returned by Google think of them. e.g. Search for "armageddon" with the "when" radio button selected and you'll get a list that includes "armageddon is probably 878 years away", "armageddon is no excuse for not trying" and "armageddon is nigh", amongst others.
- BT Suck Rant about how crap BT (British Telecom) are.
- Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection Palindromes and anagrams. The anagrams are particularly good. e.g. circumstantial evidence = can ruin a selected victim.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey. Internet Resource Archive A resource for the classic Kubrick film. Check out the sounds.
- The London News Review Review of the news. The articles come from a very sceptical viewpoint and are pretty humourous.
- TIME Magazine: Coolest Inventions 2003 I particularly like the robot cat and the power suit, which of course had to be Japanese invensions.
- Red Gold. Blood History Timeline. The history of blood.
- Royal Journal of Found Art A collection of notes fuond left lying around.
- The Stanford Prison Experiment Classic experiment. A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment Conducted at Stanford University.
- Newseum Museum of news. See the front page of lots of major newpapers from around the world.
- The Wage Slave Journal - George W. Bush Scorecard of Evil Bush's actions on a timeline, each given an "evil index".
- Morphases Great looking Flash program. Create a face and email it to someone.
- Death Mask Gallery A gallery of death masks from various famous people.
- Pain in the English Correcting English grammer.
- JPG 2 ASC Convert a JPG image to ASCII.
- Martin Luther King, Jr The famous "I have a dream" speech in all it's glory.
- Caption Thing Add a personalised caption to one of a number of pictures.
- Ferel Children A site about children that were raised by animals.
- The Create A Snowman Gallery Build a virtual snowman.
- www.romanm.ch You like ASCII art you'll love this. Check out the ASCII moview.
- Fly Guy Great little interactive animation where you can fly around (as a normal middle-aged bloke).
- Infiltration Practice and theory of urban exploration in areas not designed for public usage.
- Breaking the Gigapixel Barrier A 40,784 x 26,800 pixels, which the author believes to be one of the highest resolution, most detailed stitched digital images ever created.
- lynx Flash play things.
- LinkSwarm.com Interesting links organised by category.
- Mr. Picassohead Make a picasso portrait.
- Paul's Pockets - Touchy Feely Cursor Quiz Move your mouse around a blank screen to visually "feel" an image (the cursor changes size with perspective) and guess what it is.
- Kittens! Lots of pics of kittens. Good for Photoshopping, like these matrix kittens from Webnoodle.com.
- Webnoodle.com Only good for the stupid pictures (so far).
- Internet mapping project weaves colourful web
- Fork-You Fork bending.
- The spot - Hypnotic experiment No.1 See if you can be hypnotised.
- Polykarbon A site for comic art. Has good tutorials on how to draw figures.
- Monkey Day Help make Monkey Day a national (American) holiday.
- Hold the Button Only for the insanely bored.
- Sleightgeek Forums sharing info about magic. You have to sign up before you can access them.
- Jung Typology Test Personality test, based on the well known - Myers-Briggs typological approach.
- NEWS of the WEIRD Odd real-life news stories.
- Ain't No Way To Go A site "about the myriad ways death and dying affects all our lives". Basically a collection of stories about how people have died.
- The Toungue Twister Database No so much a database but a big list.
- Bus Selecta For some reason this was stupidly addictive.
- Church Sign Generator I love these things. Create your personalised photo-realistic church sign.
- Ain't No Way To Go Articles on the ways people have died, some humorous, some horrific.
- Alien Autopsy - Faked or Fiction? They have a nice description of how to create a fake alien autopsy using one of the famous hoaxes as an example (and pointing out thier mistakes while they're at it).
- The English-to-12-Year-Old-AOLer Translator Chat room speak confuse you? Use this handy tool and you'll be able to pose as a 12-year-old any time.
- Math art gallery Examples of "art" created from mathematical equations. Check out the animations.
- Miss Digital World If you fancy glassy women with a gormless, glazed expression and slightly wonky eyes, then I guess you should keep an eye on this.
- B-EYE See the world through the eyes of a honey bee.
- Nagasaki Journey With (written) narration and photographs by Yosuke Yamahata.
- First flush of love not emotional An interesting article from New Scientist. "When you first fall in love, you are not experiencing an emotion, but a motivation or drive..."
- macboy.com As well as general Apple Mac. support, this site has parodies of Mac. commercials and other funny animations.
- Boohbah This is for kids but I love it. Presumably it's to help teach spatial an numerical awareness. The graphics are brilliantly colourful.
- RobotsLife.com Articles about robots.
- eNuze A daily collection of strange, funny, unusual or noteworthy news items.
- Astronomy Picture of the Day ..with an explanation.
- The Internet Movie Database Info on everything film.
- Cyber women test what's real Article from the BBC. Bloody hell they look "realistic".
- Andrew Davidhazy's photos Homepage of Andrew Davidhazy, professor of Imaging and Photographic Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He's taken some brilliant pictures, most of which were taken using unusual photographic techniques (high-speed, stroboscopic etc). Check out the "exhibits" page.
- What's Special About This Number? Tells you what's special about every number from 0 to 9999.
- PollingReport.com "An independent, nonpartisan, resource on trends in American public opinion".
- Science Hobbyist Amatuer science, what could be more fun? Check out the good stuff.
- Bands Against Bush There's a rather disturbing (but obviously biased) George W. Bush Resume here.
- Public Toilet Map This is the home page of Australia's public toilet map. How thoughtful of the government to provide such a service. It makes me wonder how much it was in demand.
- Colour Affects "Colour psychology". Whether it can be regarded as a science or not is debatable, but it's interesting anyway (and it's a pretty web site).
- The Minds Eye Stare at the negative of a celebrities face (very difficult to recognise), close your eyes and guess who it is. A great effect, exploiting visual colour fatigue.
- Bird in a Cage An example of visual colour fatigue.
- Oliver Bot A chat bot. I like these things because I'm interested on how well they perform the Turing test. i.e. Do they appear human?. Most of them, including this one, don't.
- Introvert Nation "..anyone caught lurking here without a shell will be looked down upon as not only deficient in imagination and autonomy, but also lacking in good sense as well."
- The Hunger Site Click a link to donate food. It costs you nothing. There's also 4 others: The Breast Cancer Site, The Child Health Site, The Rainforest Site, The Animal Rescue Site.
- Lost in Translation This will take the English text that your provide and translate it back and using 5 different langauges. E.g. "I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain." ends up as "The creed, which is there personally becomes he the end to get to be heavier underneath the language due to our main internal necessity."!
- That Was Random Random facts, pictures, laws, etc etc.
- Extreme Sports Channel
- ExtremePumpkins.com Howto and designs for extreme pumpkins.
- Asteroid Lander by Chad Oakenfold Land the spaceship on the asteroid.
- NobodyHere Great (odd) site to explore. Check out the Teddy Bear Pile (one of many little things to play with).
- Random Website Has a link to a random website.
- Cost of War How much does the war in Iraq cost?
- Obsessive Fan Sites A collection of obsessive fan sites. As an example, check out The DiCaprio Zone "your thoughts on Leo" section. If you can read it without cringing you're a better man than me.
- Discover Magazine - Neuroquest A column exploring the oddities of the mind.
- Molecular Expressions View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then zoom in, and in, and IN. Until you're viewing the quarks in an atom of a leaf.
- The Bloated Yak Links to lots of cool websites, organised by popularity.
- The Easter Egg Archive An archive of "Easter Eggs", namely amusing content hidden in a creation by the creator. They're very popular with software developers.
- Anonymous Message and URL Server Leave a message or URL for the next visitor to view.
- Crazy Fads Fads through the decades.
- Smelly Poop Send an enemy some shit. I really hope this isn't genuine.
- Surface Yugop.com Some nice Flash interface designs and various other wierd toys.
- Exit Mundi A collection of end-of-world scenarios.
- Internet Freedom The online voice of free speech.
- The Ron Hunt Medical Benefit Fund That guy must have had one hell of a headache.
- Michael Moore This guy wrote an award-winning documentary on American gun culture called Bowling For Columbine and a book called Stupid White Men.
- Tragic Beauties A collection of mannequin portraits. Strangely tragic (not to mention eerie).
- Stupid Debating Tricks I happen to think they're pretty good.
- Fake or Foto? Are the photos real or generated by computer graphics. It's a bit easy though, even though the CG images are very impressive.
- Drug Photos from the IPRC Website Photos of most drugs.
- Befuddle: The home of Drunk Celebs Wanna see picture of drunk celebs. Go here.
- Psychoanalyze Yourself Uses 10 questions in a story format. I like this one because it doesn't take long and I've always got what seem like "accurate" results (saying that, I don't think it's got much scientific merit. It's basically a game).
- The truth about George W. Bush Anti-Bush site. Very informative (and hence worrying) and has some brilliant "Bushisms".
- The typewriter-keyboard conversion Some guy converted a typewriter into a fully functional keyboard.
- Shaving Your Cat's Nose A useful guide.
- Chinchillas.com Want to buy buy a Chinchilla?
- Mr and Mrs Wheatley Lots of great animated gifs, games, various other junk. I like the chaotic front page.
- Feeling sleepy? Counting sheep.
- Radiohead Rorschach Pictures drawn by kids whilst being to submitted to Radiohead.
- MI5 The UK security service. I like the Myths and Understandings section, where they deny everything.
- Angle Grinder Man A "superhero" that removes wheel clamps from people's cars. The site's a bit sparse at the moment. I really hope it's genuine and takes off.
- Speech Accent Archive Examples of accents from around the world, with audio samples and ipa translation.
- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey Random thoughts. Bizarre.
- Orisinal Very well designed site with cute flash games, effects and experiments.
- Lemurama
- Two monkeys Two shadow-puppet monkeys get jiggy with it.
- American Social Hygiene Posters I particularly like the mental health ones.
- The Quote Garden Quotes categorised by topic.
- Which OS are you? Ok. So it's a bit geeky (but I'm still pleased that I came out as Redhat Linux).
- Ping-A-Pal Create an animation using supplied characters.
- SelectSmart.com - ethical philosophy selector Complete the questionaire on ethics and see what philosophy is the closest match.
- 10 Second Club Monthly character animation competition.
- Encyclopedia of Stupid Languages Programming languages that is. Here's a brilliant example of a factorising program written in a language called BrainFork.
- C404 Arty projects, mostly in QuickTime. Including ASCII Rock - rock legends brought to life with ASCII.
- Duct Tape Workshop How to make a wallet out of duct tape.
- Etched In Time Etch-A-Sketch art. So good I can't believe they were really done on an Etch-A-Sketch.
- Feto Soap Nice. Also see Fetopia for the little critters outside a bar of soap.
- The Smoking Gun Authentic articles exposing the truth behind public figures and events. They uncovered this article about Schwarzenegger's Sex Talk just as good ole' Arnie's campaigning to become the Governer of California.
- Bio Motion Lab Articulated figure motion. Click "lines" for a better impression of the figure.
- Stereo images "Time for Space Wiggle" Stereo images presented by alternating between right and left images in an animated .gif. Great effect. Also has the same in flash, generating smoother transitions.
- Burning Man Opera Ark of the Nereids 2002 More "stereo wiggle" images.
- Elevator Moods Videos taken in lifts (or "elevators" if you must).
- The Reference Table of Fun All kinds of stuff to waste your time with. Games, jokes, videos, etc...
- FlySui Catch flies with chopsticks.
- Beatallica Beatles tunes, done Metallica style.
- Flying Pig Animated origami.
- Fuse Cool looking site. It's a music mag I think, but I haven't yet figured it out.
- Tony Hart Anyone who grew up in the 80's will know who he is. I used to love his program (and Morph).
- eGad An eBay parody site.
- Evil Bible.com Exposing the nasty side of the Bible (truthfully or not I've not idea - I've never read the Bible).
- Google Whack The search for "The One" - a 2 word Google query that yields only a single result (e.g. ambidextrous scallywags. Except that now it's listed on the Google Whack page it now returns more results.).
- Bushspeak Hangman Play hangman with words as president Bush would say. It's pretty hard.
- Youthink Dot Com is A Good Substitute Substitute the url text for your own to write a personal message (just leave the "forfood.org" in place).
- Colorgenics Helping you achieve self-actualization (whatever the hell that is!). Has some good psychological tests.
- Homestar Runner Cute flash site with cartoons, games, etc..
- Greg's Digital Retouching Portfolio See the effects of airbrushing. It make a BIG difference, scarily so.
- Banana Slug This page searches Google but seeds your search terms with a random word so that the results returned are slightly more unexpected.
- Words that sound dirty, but aren't
- Buzzwordometer Ranking web pages by their Buzzosity.
- Braingle Brain teasers.
- The Cynic's Sanctuary If you're a cynic, go here.
- PhoneSpelling.com See what your phone number spells (I can guarantee that it'll be rubbish for nearly all of those you try).
- Lilly's Projects - How to make slippers out of maxi pads Self-explanatory. Didn't bother looking at the other projects though - they're not my kind of thing (not that I'm about to make slippers from sanitary towels or anything!).
- Peep Hole
- Donnie Darko Cool film.
- The History of Boobs
- Spiky Thing Flash games and cartoons. Has a really nice menu. I like the classic Marble Mayhem game (Chasm and Bug Hunt are good too).
- Carlos Minguell Underwater Photo Gallery Cool underwater photos.
- iUndress Answer questions to remove clothing.
- Butts Across America People mooning across the US.
- Wired Online home of Wired technology magazine.
- Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?
- Gender Test It got it right, just. Looking at my plot on the final graph I'm more asexual. Bollocks (or not, as the case may be!).
- OozingGoo.com A site dedicated to lava lamps. Has a good section on how to make your own lava lamp.
- Flubber, Holy Object of Eris How to make flubber out of household ingredients.
- RhymeZone Enter a word and find all others that rhyme with it.
- The Death Clock Calculate your count down to death.
- VillianSupply.com Online shop for villians.
- ClichéSite.com Directory of Clichés.
- The Petting Zoo A whole load of weird stuff, including the Stick Figure Hardcore Porn page.
- Get you Chinese name Translate your name (one at a time) into Chinese characters.
- Around the World in 80 Clicks Re-enact Phileas Fogg's famous journey. Each click takes you to webcams in a different location in the world.
- Star Wars Asciimation Stars wars episode 4 in ASCII. Whoever did this must be very bored. He's also invected a jet powered beer cooler.
- Google's World A site dedicated to Google, its technology, opinions, stats...
- EarthCam Webcams of the world.
- Googoth Google for goths.
- Beachcomber's Alert A site for beachcombers to exchange info on what's washed up on beaches around the world.
- Noted nonagenarians and centenarians This site keeps track of people over 90.
- 404 Research Lab A collection of unique 404 pages, for example this Calvin & Hobbs one.
- The website fulifier Make web pages truly horrible.
- Who2 Dictionary of famous people.
- Dictionaraoke Songs sung by the voices of online dictionaries.
- zefrank.com All kinds of weird funny things. Videos, toys, games. Just lots of displacement activities.
- Baby Ink Tattoo Get your baby tattooed. It's (obviously) not genuine though.
- The internet is shit 11 reasons why the internet is shit.
- Senses Challenge 20 questions to test your knowledge of the senses.
- Behind The Name The etymology and history of first names.
- VCL Furry/anthropomorphic artwork, of which some is very good and some is fairly bad. There's also a lot of adult artwork (so if you've got a fur fetish this is the place for you!).
- At first I thought I was going mad ...
- London Slang
- Cockney Rhyming Slang Dictionary. Also has a pretty poor translator.
- World Sex Records For example, in 1886, one Professor Neugenbauer presented to the French Academy of Medicine a woman with ten individual lactating breasts. Interesting.
- Y? Forum on people's differences. "...gives you a way to ask people from other ethnic or cultural backgrounds the questions you've always been too embarrassed or uncomfortable to ask..".
- BASTET2329 Freaky dolls.
- Online Magnetic Poetry Drunk naked roadie long ing spandex.
- Coincidence Design A service to stalk the woman of your dreams and arrange a "chance" meeting. (Unfortunately it's not genuine and you can read this article about it).
- Art or Crap? Quiz.
- The world's most annoying webpage The temptation to enter is immense. Don't.
- guimp "The world's smallest website". Has some cool little classic games.
- Red Dwarf Home of the brilliant Red Dwarf series.
- Pong Movie A fight in the famous pong game.
- The Universal Life Church Become a legally ordained minister of the Universal Life Church. You'll be able to perform weddings, baptisms, funerals and more.
- the secret museum of my mind/infarct Painting and comics by some nut.
- Cog That popular Honda commercial.
- Belief-O-Matic 20 questions to determine your religious beliefs, from beliefnet. Oddly, I came up as 100% Unitarian Universalists and 97% Secular Humanists.
- Sinful Inflictions Custom tattoos. They have some amazing designs.
- My Virtual Model Create a relatively realistic 3D (human) model.
- Liquid Generation Flash animation, games, quizzes etc..
- Manor House See what life you would have lead in 1905.
- My Cat Hates You Cats that look very pissed off.
- Googlefight "Fight" keywords to see who wins the most hits (e.g. God vs Satan, God won).
- Bar Code Art Art made from bar codes.
- I Am Bored Lots of good links, LOADS of which I've nicked for this page. Go here if you are bored.
- Really Dumb Stuff Links to stupid sites.
- Male-Female Brain Differences
- Women have more brain cells (but smaller brains).
- Breast Pals "A celebration of breast art in everyday life & nature".
- Gorgeous
- Why is the sky blue? Simple scientific answers to this question and others.
- Payphone Project Lists of payphone numbers around the world.
- Icon's Story Windows icons fight.
- Project for the New American Century This is very worrying. More so because it's a genuine project backed by some very powerful people.
- Firebox.com Gadgets, games and boys toys. I particularly like the expensive stuff.
- I Shagged Here Shagging stories.
- Origami Boulder Company Buy one of these brilliant origami boulders now. I'd recommend the origami boulder performance art option.
- Bad Religion News items that expose the corruption in religion.
- Derren Brown Mind Control Home Page
- How to fry an egg on an XP Trubador's experiment to fry an egg on a processor.
- Ye Olde English Sayings Origins of many English sayings.
- A dictionary of slang English slang and colloquialisms of the UK.
- Moviepooper A site that gives away the endings of films.
- MetaPet Raise a virtual pet.
- MediumTown A photographic directory of towns throughout the UK.
- Bjork
- Potatoland Weird stuff, including their digital landfill.
- Crash Bonsai Want to buy a mini replica of a car crash, look no further.
- Size Him Up A "sizemograph" that claims to estimate the size of a man's penis from the dimensions of other parts of his anatomy.
- Human Clock This displays the time using pictures of people from around the world.
- Clifford Pickover ESP Experiment This will guess the card you choose out of 6. Very impressive trick (for it's sheer simlicity). He's also made some cool graphics.
- GPS Drawing Drawing with a Global Positioning System (by walking around and recording your path).
- What Brand Are You? Get a new brand name. I will now be referred to as "Xpenditure" rather than Stephan (quite apt really, given that it was generated randomly!).
- The Reflex Tester I got 0.26 first time. Done better and worse since. Is that good?
- Mark Thomas Product THe "unoffical" repository of all things Mark Thomas. Also see the official one.
- Circle Makers How to make crop circles. Also, pictures of REALLY good ones. This is a very nice looking site.
- UK earthquakes You'd be amazed how many (little) ones there reqularly are.
- The Quotations Page Includes quotations from the brilliant Devil's Dictionary.
- TechnoSphere A virtual world inhabited by artificial lifeforms. You can create a creature and montior it's progress.
- Habbo Hotel A chatroom in the guise of a hotel. You are represented as a guest, free to interact with the others. I haven't tried it myself, but it looks fun.
- Matrix Visualise the web (look at the internet weather report). In the UK only London is pulsing but the US is going nuts.
- Ad. Busters Contains lots of spoof adverts. Many of them with a serious message.
- Fractal Cow A collection of creative media - films, sites, cartoons.
- The Visible Human Project Look at the animated trip through the visible human male cryosections.
- David Gary Studios Very flash site. Good design.
- Urban Legends Are they fact or fiction? Most you've heard are fiction.
- webcams A world map of live webcams. Don't worry - nothing dogdy.
- tracemap Trace your connection as the data flys around the world.
- NASA Space Telerobotics Program Cool robot of the week (and archives). Check out the ridiculous Gastronome robot.
- Earth and Moon viewer Views of Earth and the Moon from various perspectives.
- dissect a frog Online virtual dissection of a frog.
- Froguts Yet more frog dissection. I have nothing against frogs, honest guv.
- Keirsey Temperament Sorter II Find out your temperament (given as several bar graphs).
- Solar System Simulator Look at planets or satellites from various locations in our solar system.
- The Dynamic Planet A very detailed map showing the Earth's physiographic features. Takes a long time to load, and you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader v3 or higher.
- Floral Radiographs: The Secret Garden A gallery of x-rayed flowers.
- Banned Books It's amazing some of the seemingly innocent titles that have been banned.
- 3 little graphic things Look at Flowfazer. Pointless, but looks good.
- TTS AT&T Labs Text-To-Speach demo. Allows you to download a synthesised voice given any typed sentance.
- Talking Online Text-to-speach.
- Illusionworks Lots of visual illusions (still and motion) and their explanations.
- Lightness Perception and Lightness Illusions Flash movies of visual illusions and their explanations. From the M.I.T.
- Cool Optical Illusions Collection of optical illusions.
- Movie Mistakes You would not believe the amount of mistakes in movies. Most listed are funny, but a lot are just pedantic.
- Mental FX Lots of "trippy psychadelic" animations, screensavers, etc.
Funny | Go to top
- The Perry Bible Fellowship A comic strip by Nicholas Gurewitch. Brilliantly bizarre.
- MakeMeKing.com People suggest dares and others record themselves completing them. Stupid, but often funny (and frequently painful).
- DrunkenMatch.com Pissed people fighting.
- Stationery Is Bad Whilst I hate linking to a Micro$oft product, the videos are funny (just don't buy the product unless you want to contribute to an evil superpower ;-) ).
- Despair The art of demotivation.
- Roboho The Ultimate Sex Machine!
- Polo Pollitically incorrect commercial from VW.
- Preparing For Emergencies A spoof of the UK government's site which was launched in response to their perceived terrorist threat. They only registered it at the .gov.uk.
- The Debut of RoboDump 1.0
- chiseen Funny videos, for example this failed flip attempt.
- Spiderman Jack Black's spoof of Spiderman.
- Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time
- Galactic Debate Bush Kerry debate.
- XXXX GALUMPIA ADULT XXXX Explicit images.
- stardustsstalker Oddball got taught a lesson.
- Giant Amazonian Duckling
- Zladko "Zlad" Vladcik Techno-ballad, "Elektronik - Supersonik".
- Amusing places close to you Enter your UK postcode for a list of amusing place names near you (and a map to them). It turns out I currently live 7.5 miles from Nob End.
- Neil Armstrong - The Awful Truth Previously suppressed footage shows Armstrong's real reaction to landing on the moon.
- Underculture: Meeting Ms. Right Funny article writen by a guy who by the sound of it is in some sort of mid-life crisis. He's also done some great paintings.
- Pointless Waste Of Time They have some good photo caption competitions.
- Thunder Cats bloopers
- The Writings on the Stall Quotes from grafitti in public toilets.
- Jesus Action Figure
- Compfused Funny vids, pics, games and animations.
- Really Bad Jokes Q: What do you call a fly with no wings? A: A walk.
- Wage Slave Cartoon about a grumpy bear stuck at work.
- The Funny Name Server Funny names found in phone books from the New York tri-state area.
- Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names
- The (unofficial) House Of Commons Calender 2004
- Video Page Lots of funny videos. Don't bother going to the home page though, it's crap.
- Black People Love Us!
- Winnie the Pooh worships Satan
- Real people with rude names From B3TA.
- Landover Baptist Church "Guaranteeing salvation since 1612".
- PhD: Piled Higher and Deeper Grad. student comic strip. Very well written and pretty accurate to boot (according to PhD students I know).
- Conjecture News Ridiculous news articles.
- Large Cow Comics by Hunt Emerson.
- Museum of Hoaxes Very funny.
- InsultMonger.com Insults in all forms - jokes, slang, how to swear in foreign languages, etc...
- Insults.net Another insults site. Not as good as InsultMonger.com but has a wider range of insults (often quite worldly).
- We Love Arnold I can't believe this git is now the Governor of California. This is funny, but quite tragic at the same time (for what the American people will buy in to).
- Hairy Tongue Lots of pictures of pissed people.
- Media Pill Comic strip.
- The Framley Examiner Odd online newspaper.
- George W. Bush's hotmail account On sept 2002.
- World Beard Championships I want one when I'm old.
- Rectal Foreign Bodies It's amazing what some people'll stick up their jacksie.
- David Brent - Renaissance Man Main character from UK comedy "The Office". Check out the brilliant dance clip. It had me in stitches.
- Monobrow A celebration of the monobrow.
- Icy Hot Stuntaz Bling bling.
- hestefor.swf Eh? That's all I have to say.
- Will Not A site containing lots of emails sent to hrhw@england.com on the premise that it was Prince William's address. It wasn't.
- Hand Signals ...used by soldiers.
- Tshirt Hell Brilliant t-shirts. Check out the baby ones.
- Stupid.com Lots of great stupid stuff.
- Dribbleglass.com Has some funny pictures (such as Mice in Love) and a great strange section.
- Book-A-Minute Books condensed into minute-long descriptions. The collected work of Jane Austin is particularly good.
- Movie-A-Minute Movies condensed into minute-long descriptions.
- Snoop Dogg - Tha Shizzolator Translate a web site from "tha shizzle to da shiznit".
- Windows RG Try out the latest Windows upgrade.
- Caption Machine Funny pictures to which people are invited to add captions.
- The Bush Administration Random Allegation Gizmo Generate random allegations.
- Critical analysis of "Bling Bling" A breakdown of the personalities of Baby, Lil' Turk, Lil' Wayne, Manny Fresh, Juvenile, and The B.G. derived from their "flow".
- Private Eye Investigation, satire and comment from the UK.
- The Sprout Investigation, satire and comment from Brussels.
- Tom Watson - Teens and Politics Hilarious teens section of Labour MP Tom Watson's web site. Currently leading Private Eye's competition for the most desperate or excrutiating website. It's apparently a spoof (scroll to the end of it), but I'm not sure it was when it first went up.
- Pinocchia.com Gallery Nose morphs.
- Low bugdget Matrix effect An absolutely brilliant table-tennis movie using low budget Matrix effects. In case you don't find it there, try here instead.
- zefrank.com All kinds of weird funny things. Videos, toys, games. Just lots of displacement activities.
- Morph-a-Celebrity Stretch the face of a celebrity.
- OctoDog A brilliant utility to cook your hotdog in the shape of an octopus.
- Cannot find Weapons of Mass Destruction This used to be the page you got when you entered "weapons of mass destruction" into google and clicked "I'm feeling Lucky". Now you get a paper on the US's National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction, which isn't so funny.
- Snake Mountain Odd odd site.
- B3TA Very funny pics and articles.
- b3tapaper Wallpaper from b3ta.
- HowStrange.com Home of Slim's b3ta picture gallery. Brilliant image maniplulation.
- eclectech B3TA contributor. I particularly like their flowers.
- Something Awful Videos, downloads, pictures (check out Photoshop Phriday section), forums and more.
- limpfish.com More modified pics.
- Pickled Pizza Even more stupid pics. Organised into categories (such as "penguins").
- Chris Emerson A personal site with some funny modified images. He's running the The Bayeux Tapestry Project for people to modify a digital copy of the Bayeux Tapestry.
- scamOrama Examples of all variations of the famous Nigerian email scam, plus correpondence of people that fell for it.
- Nigerian fraudsters - let the games begin Article and links related to the email scam. Have a look at this gem.
- Nigerian Scam Baiting Someone who's wound up the Nigerian frausters and got them to wait at airports holding stupid signs.
- Real Hussein Saddam Hussein singing "The Real Hussein" to the tune of Slim Shady's "The Real Slim Shady".
- Sinfest Home of the Sinfest comic strip.
- Darwin Awards "The Darwin Awards honor those who improve our gene pool... by removing themselves from it". Very funny stories of stupidity resulting in death.
- Insanity Test If you laugh at this you are insane. I am.
- BadAssDolls.com Obscene dolls.
- electric 6 - gay bar As sung by Bush and Blair.
- Pornolize Translate web sites into porno text.
- Pebwages Odd products and services.
- Tenacious D: Fuck Her Gently Flash video of the D's Fuck Her Gently.
- Russia Makes It Funny Funny stories from the Russian media.
- The Lair of the Crab of Ineffable Wisdom Otherwise known as "rathergood.com". You must have sound to appreciate this page. See this rendition of Independent Woman as it would sound if Destiny's Child were kittens from Northern England.
- Jokes, One-Liners and Assorted Amusement from HCG You'll have to scroll down a page.
- Amazing Humor Jokes and funny pictures.
- Does santa really deliver the goods?
- Roger's Profanisaurus A dictionary of Roger Mellie's (from Viz) dirty words.
- Introducing Monday After PWC Consulting changed their name to the ridiculous "Monday" they registered www.introducingmonday.com but forgot to register www.introducingmonday.co.uk. Unfortunately for them the name was hijacked (which is probably why they've now dropped the site).
- Bonsai Kitten Buy a shaped kitten.
- Totally Absurd Inventions Stupid American patents. Check out the Extreme Comb Over.
- Billboard Liberation Front These people alter billboards to deliver altogether more accurate messages. Look at The Art & Science of Billboard Improvement.
- Laugh Lab. This is a serious experiment. Really. I'm not joking, here's the proof.
- Fun E Humo(u)r Lots of jokes.
- Jokes and Humo(u)r More jokes. (One day I'll narrow down these joke sites to a single good one!).
- The Comedy Lab. Lots more jokes. (The site takes a bit of time to load though).
- Aaardvark Archie Rude jokes and pictures etc. Unfortunately the site occasionally opens pop-ups.
- Rude Fun More rude stuff. Unfortunately has crappy cartoons mixed among the pictures.
- I-resign.com Guides about resigning, template resignation letters, etc. Serious in a funny kind of way (or vice versa).
- Viral Bank A collection of funny emails and other content being circulated around the net.
- Bush n Blair
- Golden Rasberry Award Foundation Better than the Oscars any day.
- The Onion "America's Finest News Source"
- The White House Polital satire.
- Glossy News.com "News" articles in a similar vein to The Onion.
- Temple ov thee Lemur Follow thee Lemur. Check out the old polls.
- The Brunching Shuttlecocks Check out the Alanis lyric generator.
- The Spark Best for its funny test and answer series.
- Funny Forwards Content is not that funny, but it's worth it for the last (third) question of The Weakest Link.
- Celebrity Deathmatch Spike Lee vs Quentin Tarantino was hilarious, but they don't have it online any more.
- TV Go Home Spoof TV listings.
- Mad Cows
- The Useless Pages Jesus on a pogo-stick was strangely hilarious (under "useless web animation").
- Stupid Questions My personal favourite is "Would a fly without wings be called a 'walk'?".
- exploding head? How to tell if your head's about to blow up.
- Bert is evil Proof that Bert the muppet is evil.
- Anders Mad Scientist Page Check out the link (at the bottom of the site) on relativistic sex. "What effects can be expected as the velocity of the dick approaches the speed of light?".
- The Woodcutter The strangest site I have ever seen (the creator MUST have been on drugs). Frankly, it's scary.
- WuName Get your Wu-Tang Clan identity.
Animation and Video | Go to top
- How to Light a Candle From Gas out of you Ass Next step, light your cigarette.
- Watermelon Love Bizarre but impressive animation. Some kind of promotional video methinks.
- Evolving Genesis A toy program that randomly generates letters in an attempt to recreate the first line of the Bible ("In the beginning God created the heaven and the Earth"). Also see the other experiments here.
- Olympics Silly animation about the olympics.
- Tiled animated gif Here's another one.
- Everyone has had more sex than me Cute video with bunnies.
- After You Funny animation about politeness.
- Angry Alien Productions Classic films re-enacted in 30 seconds by bunnies. For example, Titanic in 30 seconds.
- walking-man ASCII animation of a walking man.
- INDUSTORIOUS CLOCK ||| MONO*CRAFTS Clock animation.
- The Duel
- Stick Figure Death Theatre
- Robots in love
- Alien Zoo Great song with animation.
- oddtodd.com - No Nothing Productions Animation about a bum. I like the fact it's not at all polished.
- HiBOT.COM Cute, cool flash animations.
- Post-It Theatre Animations made using scetches on post-it notes.
- The End Of The World
- Half Giraffe A selection of flash animations in a variety of styles.
- The Other Side Funny little animations by someone called Mata.
- Sketchy Animation
- Barnaby's Tales
- Tedi Online Cool karate teddy bear.
- Högaffla hage A bizarre Swedish interactive animation.
- Weebl and Bob
- E|X|T|R|A|B|A|D Links to 6 very good Flash animation sites, including Block Death that recreates torture and execution with lego.
- exploding soda
- pox The talent behind the Pigmy Shrew and the Wishing Bird (and one I haven't seen yet).
- liquid shorts
- sci-fi
- new grounds
- zthing
- camp chaos
- kill frog
- ray monkey
- the quickie
- mondo media
- Joe Cartoon Gory but good. If you like cats don't look at any of the cat ones (those poor liddle puddy cats).
- Romp Check out the "Napster Bad Money Good" animation, and the "Rehab This, Charlton Heston" game.
- briscoe Small World cartoons.
Online Games and Interactive Animation | Go to top
- Gyro Ball Navigate a ball around a 3D surface, under the influence of gravity.
- The Flash Mind Reader I love these things. The illusion of intelligence, or in this case, psychic ability.
- ZoomQuilt Brilliant animation thingy where you can zoom through a weird world. You'll just have to try it to see what I'm talking about.
- PukiGame Shoot the cute things (because they're not so cute when they launch themselves at you!). Despite the slow start this gets hard quickly. One of the reasons I like it is because of its fairly unique design.
- Eliminator Remake of a puzzle game called IQ-Puzzle. The objective is to remove all balls of the same color. You've only got a set number of moves and it's suprisingly difficult.
- DHTML Lemmings Online remake of the classic Lemmings game.
- Beanies A lemmings-like game.
- Poke the Penguin I love these little pointless things.
- Dodge Avoid the blocks.
- Hammered Suprisingly fun game where you hammer nails into the wall.
- Twins Link the dots.
- Ant City Burn the little people.
- Seperate the dots
- Turtle Ride Ride the current with the turtle from Finding Nemo.
- Parking: Battle of the Sexes Parking game.
- Drift - dancer without a body Computationally clever and interesting interactive animation of dancing balls that interact to represent a figure.
- :HUB.lo: Quirky robot platform game.
- attack of the killer broccoli Eh? Why?
- Eskiv Nice game where you track a target avoiding balls. Try Eskiv 2 for a harder mode.
- :: strip that girl v3 :: Shoot clothes off a cartoon woman. Great (how the hell do you portray sarcasm in text?).
- Biniki Bounce Silly game.
- Splinter Cell Online Flash stealth game.
- Swinger A unique but slightly boring game. The link's here for interest's sake, not because I'd recommend playing it.
- Mad santa claus
- Odd interactive game/adventure
- Yeti Sports The infamous yeti games.
- I Know Where Bruce Lee Lives Generate a kung-fu film trailer.
- 8up Great simple game of attention, I suppose.
- Which-Way In my opinion simply the best adventure game ever.
- EYEMAZE Home of the wonderfully odd Grow game.
- Fly Great simple interactive thingy where you fly a 'paper' aeroplane to make swirly patterns.
- Stare Down Sally Can you out-stare sally? I love the fact someone could be bothered to make this.
- Moebius Syndrome Puzzle game where you create loops to free up space. Very addictive.
- Nun Gunner The nuns are invading. Stop them before it's too late.
- Stripperella Platform game with a stripper (not as interesting as it sounds!).
- Penguin baseball Addictive, like so many of these things. How can something so basic be so much fun? Am I simple?
- Penguin baseball v2 A hacked version of penguin baseball that allows you to hit the poor creature much further.
- Miniclip.com Large variety of Flash and Java games.
- Shuffle the Penguin A penguin curling game.
- 12 Pixel Heroes Flash game where you have to guess the superhero based on the colours in a grid of very few (large) pixels.
- Chasm Interactive adventure game.
- brackeen.com Great little Java games.
- monkey maze game Help the monkey across the shark-infested water by building a maze.
- Vampires! Simple but addictive adventure game.
- Qenso (or whatever the hell it's called). An online version of the popular memory game.
- RudePlay Flash games. Including Monkey Diving and Cat-a-Pult. Don't play these if you don't like animal blood.
- Arcade Arena Arcade games written in Flash.
- The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia Great games that link movie stars by their co-stars. See the Star Links game to link any two stars.
- The ESP Game Play with an anonymous user to see if you can associate the same words with images.
- poke-a-sheep Stupid game. And for those with a debatable imagination (such as myself I guess), it's nothing like that.
- Differences Spot the difference games.
- Candystand.com Flash games.
- Mr and Mrs Wheatley Lots of great animated gifs, games, various other junk. I like the chaotic front page.
- Orisinal Very well designed site with cute flash games, effects and experiments.
- The Reference Table of Fun All kinds of stuff to waste your time with. Games, jokes, videos, etc...
- Spiky Thing Flash games and cartoons. Has a really nice menu. I like the classic Marble Mayhem game (Chasm and Bug Hunt are good too).
- Really Fun Arcade Flash games.
- 2FlashGames More flash games.
- Meowmory Card memory game with kittens. Ahhh.
- Coffee Break Arcade Lots of online games (in a variety of formats).
- New Grounds Cool flash games, including Sonic the Pervert where you have to help Sonic (the hedgehog) get laid with the characters he shared the (original) game with.
- zefrank.com All kinds of weird funny things. Videos, toys, games. Just lots of displacement activities.
- guimp "The world's smallest website". Has some cool little classic games.
- Vector Park Odd flash "games" to explore.
- Liquid Generation Flash animation, games, quizzes etc..
- FlashRadium games Lots of really good Flash games. Slow loading though.
- FHM 100 Greatest Games Some brilliant flash games.
- Puretone Stuck in a Groove Racing Flash Scalectrix game.
- David Blaine Assassination Game Assasinate David Blaine as he attempts his pointless Tower-Bridge-in-a-glass-box-for-44-days stunt.
- Romp Check out the "Napster Bad Money Good" animation, and the "Rehab This, Charlton Heston" game.