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If you ever feel the need to revisit childhood terror with such pant-filling atrocities as 'Smoker of the Future' and, everybody's favourite, 'AIDS Monolith' then fill your nostagic faces with this madeleine cake. Also features Nick Cotton in the classic 'Stupid Git'.



Oi loves the paaaaaast!

Following the success of the trailer for The Shining recut as a boy-meets-foster-father-weepie, this site was set up to house all the recut trailers everyone was feverishly making. Some are awful, but I really liked Jaws recut as Free Willy. There's none as slick as the original (which is also on the site), but there are still some goodies.

Best Indian food recipe site I've ever seen. Interface is rubbish, but recipes are brilliant.

Every Simpsons episode ever up to the current US series available to stream.



And that's not all



There's also



www.all-fg.com

for Family Guy



and especially for The Mighty Reptile

www.allbb.co.nr

for Beavis and Butthead



I'm currently ploughing through the new Family Guys with a couple of bottles of Asahi and a stack of grilled cheese and habanero sauce on toast. The beginning of the week never felt better.

EDIT: The Simpsons one is kaput now, thanks to evil Rupert Murdoch, which presumably means the Family Guy one is soon to go as well, so get in quick if you haven't already, even though the new Family Guys are a bit rubbish.

A friend of mine gone done did a comic book. Read the first issue online here. You should, you know. It's very good.

'Eighties Ending', a parody of the climatic scenes of 1980s US teen films. No cliche left uncovered!

It's a new Guardian "Collective" blog. The first run by a National Newspaper, apparently. Anyway, it's only just started (as at mid March 2006), but it's already got lots of interesting entries from interesting people. I think it'll be one to stick in your bookmarks.

The Chinese answer to Google. Currently the subject of much debate in financial circles, as the stock is trading on incredibly high multiples, implying that the financial market believes it is going to undergo incredible growth as a company. There are two very interesting things about it:
1. It has MP3 search. I searched for "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and the first link on the MP3 page was a good quality MP3 of the song. Very surprising. Obviously I have no idea whether this is going to become the new Kazaa/Emule (I presume not), but it was quite interesting nonetheless.
2. It appears to have censored results. Difficult to prove, obviously, but a search for Tiananmen Square doesn't produce nearly the same number of answers as Google, and most of the top results are broken. Not very scientific, actually, so maybe they aren't censored. Nonetheless, it's interesting to see what all the fuss is about.

Hahahahahahahahahah Dog Judo ahahahaha hahaha aha!! ahem.

A gallery of funny/insulting/psuedo-profound/infantile things people have written on walls. The Vanilla Ice tribute is my current favourite.

Scott Aronson is reeeeeeal clever. Not funny, I'm afraid, but very clever.

It's the front page for some Marketing Professionals survey. But just stay on the page, staring in growing horror at the utterly terrifying series of people in the banner at the top. Apparently in the future, all personal photographs will be as gut-wrenchingly disturbing as this.

This is a site containing pictures of women and dogs. I suspect some of you are now wonderring abeout the 'Safe For Work' nature of this site but trust me it is simply pictures of women and dogs that some guy has found in charity shops in Birmingham. I can see why this guy won a Dork Of The Day award but this is a refreshing dose of Hobbyism in a world seemingly run on marketing and 'Whats on the cover of ID this week' style bullshit.

Fancy a cheap laugh? Course you do! Why not take ten minutes or so to cast your eye over the deluded world of your average lookalike agency? Like that cut-price waxwork museum that was in the tabloids a few years back where the exhibits looked so little like the celebrities they were meant to resemble that they had to have big signs next to them, but with real people. 'Daniel Bedingfield' and 'Jesus' are paticularly poor efforts.

If you think someone is a cunt, why not consign them to Cunts Corner? Some of the vitriol vented on this site is truely biblical in its fervor.

Lists of things. Good for passing the time. I particularly liked Adjectives Rarely Used by Wine Tasters, and Nonrecommended Questions for your Speed Date. Actually, there's loads of really funny ones. Browse at your leisure.

A wooden mirror, well it's more like a TV with a wooden screen, deeply uncanny and pretty amazing.

Distilled philosophical works. This isn't just a run of the mill attempt at summarising various philosophers, this project has been undertaken so as to minimise as far as possible human intervention. This guy has basically analysed all the documents he could to get an idea of the most important sections of all the most important philosophical works. The result is that you can pick up the essence of say, A Critique of Pure Reason, without getting bogged down in Kant's appallingly wearisome prose.

Badly drawn comic about white ninja. For the uninitiated go straight to the archive, and start with comic #1. Funny. I think.

Well, its a web comic about dinosaurs in which the pictures never change. You will therefore be suprised to hear that its really really great. Stop reading this description right now and go to the site!

The angry voice of liberal America, not so much a web site as a rant against, well, the south and their irritating gawd bwess Amewica attitude. click on the links to go to interesting and informative websites that back this guys point up, whoever wrote this page deserves a medal.

This is pretty cool. I only just found out about it. Loads of copyright-expired books (and I mean thousands, not just the odd fifty or so), are available to download at your leisure. Insane. And cool.

Shameless plug for GypsyBoy's hard-hitting website for his new theatre production company. High quality "art" apparently. We think it's opportunistic Toryism, but then, what do we know about theatre?

I know I keep putting up Flash sites, but I've been thinking about this site a lot. It's a series of exceptionally distressing cartoons, almost all soundtracked to The Aphex Twin or Boards of Canada. I really can't think of a site that I would have thought everyone on CKGT would enjoy more. I strongly recommend Spoilsbury Toast Boy and The Second Salad Fingers but you should watch all of them. Give this man some kind of medal.

They say that you can find anything you want on the internet and The Portal Of Evil is living breathing proof of this. It provides links to some of the strangest websites on the net, recent favorites include a site dedicated to people who belive themselves to be reincarnations of Nazi soldiers and a crazy guy ranting about cubic time. This is not a shock site and many of the links are to quite sweet personal sites. check out the archive page for a full listing of links though some have expired (including, sadly, the site on which a man in california auctioned his testicles).

This is the website for Ferry Halim. I don't know anything about this man, other than he is the greatest practiser of the art of Flash I have ever seen. The page linked to is filled with beautiful little Flash games that are all really nicely thought out. This is the perfect Friday afternoon site, and I reckon there's enough material there for about fifteen thousand Fridays. (Monkey Slide is my current favourite.)

You can download lots of commercially unavailable Chris Morris stuff here, like his pre-Day Today GLR radio shows, which are just GOLD.

Pretty Maddoxy, but really funny. Great stuff.

Wikipedia is an openly built encyclopedia, which means it's built by randoms logging on and entering info they know about. You'd think it would fall apart as people are generally lazy and prone to vandalism, but thanks to a team of reviewers, it doesn't, and so it presents a vast array of hyperlinked knowledge which is invaluable. I use it all the time. You should too, because it rules.

Dilbert Hole. Absolutely brilliant Dilbert parody/pastiche/rip-off. Sites hosting it tend to get shut down regularly, so this link might break soon enough, but if you google for "Dilbert Hole", you should be able to find it.

Hmm, well, I like it. Although, admittedly, most of it is pretty difficult to understand. It's written with that almost aggressive uninterest in explaining what any of the uber-geekery they're describing actually is. However, worth reading for the one link and arch comment to start off the newsletter. Then skip to the movie review section to send yourself into a frothing rage as they vote for something like Swordfish as movie of the week. There are usually some good links in memepool as well. Basically, it's like a real ale, text-only version of B3ta (without any "woos", unless they're ironic "woos"), in that it's one of those Friday Newsletters that people get a bit obsessive about. B3TA is about cartoons and pictures of kittens, this is about the latest superspecific linux application to do something indescribable to stuff, they're different really, but I think of them as the same sort of thing. They occasionally reference each other, because the UK cult internet seems a bit incestuous.

Still part of that whole B3TA Flash thing. Probably the funniest, and most regularly updated, out there. See also http://www.weebls-stuff.com for more by the same guy.

Maddox writes some of the best copy on the web. Already pretty feted, but deserves to be even more so.

Our vote for the hotly contested "Best Anti-Bush Site on the Web".

Part of the B3TA Flash worship. Updated pretty regularly, and featuring some of the funniest animations on the web.

The complete Nathan Barley, as featured on the now defunct TVGoHome. Read it and weep with tears of fresh laughter.

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