FRIDAY

www.overheardindublin.com
Dublin wit, as overheard by others. Feel free to post your own

www.vivalagames.com/play/picto
Test your memory with this simple game of spot the shape

Long shot
Film buffs will enjoy this list of the greatest tracking shots in movie history — then you can watch them

THURSDAY

A drink too far?
You be the judge: was Nicolas Sarkozy very tired after his summit with Putin?

Paid to play
Dreams can come true: you can be paid to surf the web, in the Mahalo Greenhouse project

expensr.com
Where did all my money go? Find out, with this free online money manager

WEDNESDAY

www.musicovery.com
What music are you in the mood for today? Discover new bands according to your outlook

Spot the porkie
How can you tell if someone’s lying? Derren Brown has some ideas

Enduring appeal
For those of you who miss the Scouse tones of John Peel, here’s an archive of some of his best BBC Radio 1 shows

TUESDAY

www.jumbojoke.com
Everyone needs a laugh and this site has some consistently funny stuff worth passing on

Ageing disgracefully
A little bit of Photoshop works shows what some celebs will look like in 2034

www.satelliteballet.com
The all-seeing eye of Google has caught some interesting snaps with its satellite view

MONDAY

Wrong turn
Silly street signs from around the world. Fun, but not always for all the family

sputtr.com
The ultimate search engine combines every possible major engine on one page

Save yourself
Interest rates are going up ... here’s a handy guide to how Swiss bank accounts work

FRIDAY

www.oxfamireland.org/oxjam
Raise money for Oxfam with a music event and your band could end up on MTV

Morphing women
Half a millennium of female portraits squashed into a three-minute video cleverly morphing from one to the other

www.lynxvice.com
Try to ignore the sales pitch and this teaser site for a deodorant is worth a visit for its puzzles

THURSDAY

www.webbyawards.com
The Oscars of the internet were presented this week — browse the winners here

www.rte.ie/tv/hollywoodtrials
New RTE show seeks 10 aspiring actors for reality show set in Hollywood

www.sk-rt.com
For women tired of the male-dominated web, Sk*rt is a social networking site for the fairer sex

WEDNESDAY

www.kissthisguy.com
Directory of misheard lyrics including Hendrix classic ‘Kiss the sky’ mangled as ‘Kiss this guy’

www.rte.ie/tv/corriganknowsfood/pollpage.html
TV chef is looking for votes on Ireland’s favourite food — there’s a good prize for entries

Table computer
See Microsoft’s prototype of a table that works like a PC

TUESDAY

www.ilounge.com
Leading iPod-focused site offers free 300-page e-book exploring every aspect of the iPod and iTunes

What do we have here?
Google has added street-level photos to its satellite maps, with some interesting results

www.seebeforeyoudie.net
See the most memorable places in the world through the eyes of other tourists

FRIDAY

www.stylehive.com
Connoisseurs of cool brands and hot trends in style will find like-minded fashionistas here

Steady as she goes
Infuriating puzzle game requiring a deft hand with the mouse

www.buxfer.com
Track your finances online, including who owes you money. Good for flat-sharers

THURSDAY

www.channel4.com/bigbrother
The official site for BB8, full of mindless trivia and other, less important stuff

www.anagramgenius.com
Bright Bore is an anagram of Big Brother, we know now thanks to this site

hypem.com
The Hype Machine culls the best new music from the cream of MP3 blogs

WEDNESDAY

www.muse.ie
Long-dead music site resuscitated with listings, interviews and reviews

Break bricks
Fans of arcade classic BreakOut get a welcome burst of nostalgia with this version

www.kopekmusic.com
Dublin band Kopek accompany new single with highly watchable animated vid

TUESDAY

www.tripbase.com
Can’t think of where to go on your next city break/holiday? Feed your needs into TripBase and get recommendations

www.aerialtelly.co.uk
TV fans looking for acid-tongued dissections of their favourite shows should be in heaven here

www.boredstop.com
Unusual, strange and just plain wrong photos from around the world

MONDAY

mashup.starwars.com
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Wars, George Lucas invites you to make your own mini-movie

www.crimelibrary.com
Everything you ever wanted to about the criminal mind, including the most notorious cases

www.gamesforthebrain.com/game/rotate
Mini-puzzle based on block-shuffling and rotation to solve a mixed-up picture

FRIDAY

www.ulsterbankgolf.ie
Last year’s free ticket offer for the European Open at the K Club was a great success — here it is again

www.soyouvebeendumped.com
We’ll all been there — got the elbow, etc. Here’s somewhere to go to soothe your broken heart

www.drstrangeblix.co.uk
Engaging little webgame where you control Dr Blix looking for WMDs in an Iraqi lab

THURSDAY

Joyce for dummies
Ulysses for dummies explains our greatest piece of literature in just one line per chapter. Amazing when you think of it

www.twitterlit.com
Guess the book from the first line of the first page

www.smithwicks.ie
Ignore the ads for beer, enjoy the games related to the Cat Laughs comedy festival

WEDNESDAY

journeybystarlight.blogspot.com
The mysteries of the universe explained by, ahem, a reincarnated Albert Einstein

A different take
The story of Shell’s battle with Rossport locals . . . as told by Al-Jazeera

www.booktribes.com
Discover great books courtesy of people who’ve read them

TUESDAY

www.middio.com
Search engine dedicated solely to online music videos — and not just the obscure stuff either

Pull your hair out
Puzzle game that quickly becomes maddeningly difficult yet addictive

www.televisionwithoutpity.com
Plenty of sites recap the episodes of hit shows — this one does it in spectacularly snarky style

MONDAY

www.k2xl.com/games/boomshine
It starts out easy but quickly gets tough — create explosions to wipe out moving targets

Crooked pitch
We suspect Photoshop was involved but this football pitch presents a real challenge to players

www.bandnamemaker.com
You got the tunes but you need a name — let this site help you create a memorable moniker

FRIDAY

www.google.com/experimental
Peek inside the Google Labs at the crazy ideas that might not make it

davidnickle.googlepages.com/freelies
Fiction writer experiments with net by making some of his horror stories available for free

You must remember this
Test your memory and brainpower with this series of visual tests

THURSDAY

pickyourparty.ie
If you take your elections seriously, here’s where you’ll find a way to find the political party that matches your views

panicstruckpro.com/revelations
Fan-made film set in the Star Wars universe and free to
view — hokey but its heart’s in the right place

Creep show
Intriguing cover of Radiohead’s Creep complete with animated video

WEDNESDAY

zwinky.smileycentral.com
At last, a really girly game for all you fashionistas. No download for Mac-users, though, boo-hoo

Scary movie
Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1932 vampire chiller Vampyr ... Der Traum des Allan Grey in its scary, classic entirety

electsusie.com
So you think our health system is bad? Ten-year-old Susie Flynn is ‘running for president’ in the US to protest about theirs

TUESDAY

ratemytd.com
Exhaustively chronicles the value of every Dail member through speeches, etc, then gets you to rate them

Sopranos in 7 minutes
Wondrous piece of video editing which summarises several series of The Sopranos in seven minutes

www.myfavoriteword.com
Readers of this blog tell why they love obscure words

MONDAY

Red reporter
Tonight’s BBC Panorama documentary about Scientology includes this clip of the reporter completely losing the rag

www.stoppingdistances.org.uk
Eye-opening simulator that shows drivers how slowly they can react if distracted by mobiles, weather, etc

www.budrising.ie
Maximo Park play a free gig at the Temple Bar Music Centre next Monday ... register here for tickets

FRIDAY

best.online.docus.googlepages.com
More than 500 documentaries made by respected broadcasters (BBC, etc) in dozens of categories

Save Paris
‘Friends’ of Paris Hilton have created a petition to Arnold Schwarzenegger to save the socialite from jail

U2 3D
U2 are coming in 3D to an Imax cinema near you later this year ... here’s a glimpse in 2D, sadly

THURSDAY

www.eol.org
The new Encyclopaedia of Life is planned as a giant ecosystem of websites explaining life on Earth

Random sights
Peculiar but interesting stream of random images from the web

scifi.co.uk/blakes7
Remember Blake’s 7, ropey but inventive sci-fi series from the early 80s? It’s been revived, strangely, as a podcast

WEDNESDAY

www.technorati.com
Bloggers have a lot to say but how do you find the good ones? Technorati can help

Fly me to Mars
Incredibly striking images of the planet Mars taken by Nasa

unclutterer.com
Dedicated to cutting the crap out of your life — start cleaning up now

TUESDAY

thepassionatecook.typepad.com
Award-winning blog full of yummy recipes and cooking ideas

Star Wars cringe-fest
Spectacularly awful two-hour Star Wars Christmas TV special — featuring original cast — reduced to five mins

www.dublinvolunteerweek.com
Contribute something to your city by volunteering to help out around town

FRIDAY

Code cracked
Rosslyn Chapel - the site where The Da Vinci Code says the Holy Grail is hidden - hides secret music too

www.hackaday.com
Every day some devilish new machine invented and explained. Shame about the awful typeface on the site

www.spatulaofdeath.com
Sick of social networking sites? Here’s an anti-social one inviting: ‘Sign up, you scumbag’

THURSDAY

www.votetube.org
Political candidates have been busy making election videos, VoteTube gathers them together with sarky comments

www.canyouseemenow.co.uk
Performance artists coming to Dublin are looking for competitors to play a chase game around the city

Fry your brain
Optical illusion guaranteed to get your brain see spots for the rest of the day

WEDNESDAY

www.isubwaymaps.com
Handy maps of underground rail in major cities for download to your iPod

www.webbyawards.com
The Oscars of the internet have been handed down for 2007

www.blip.tv
YouTube has many competitors now and blip.tv is one of the better ones

TUESDAY

www.thecrimea.net
Rising British band The Crimea have put up their new album as a free download to get it out there.

www.rte.ie/eurovision
Eurovision meets internet as Irish entry made available for free download

www.citizensinformation.ie
It’s not too late to get on the register of electors — make your voice heard. Sign up before this evening

MONDAY

www.geograph.org.uk
Intriguing collection of photos aiming to represent every square kilometre of Ireland and Britain

www.rockthevote.ie
The political party leaders have been trying blogging ... someone should tell them just one post won’t do

Hello, Don
Everybody needs a cool Mafia nickname ... this site will tell you yours

FRIDAY

www.mycandidate.ie
Impressively comprehensive rundown of the candidates running in this year's general election

shrek.aol.com
The third Shrek movie is about to hit cinemas and here you can play some webgames while you wait

Mind your Muppets
The Muppets — Swedish Chef, Animal and Beaker — sing Danny Boy with predictably side-splitting results

THURSDAY

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WEDNESDAY

picturedots.com
Online version of join-the-dots puzzles, you can even make your own from your photos

Comics as gaeilge
Mayo publisher has great graphic novels of the Tain, etc, in Irish. And the Irish for ‘Nnngg!’ is?

hearourvoice.ie
Election site from the National Youth Council rating the candidates on their attitude to the young

TUESDAY

www.irishelection.com/awards
Next month’s election will generate lots of sound and fury online — these awards aim to recognise the best of it

www.clipmarks.com
Smart, free tool to let you “clip” bits of webpages you want to keep, much as you would a magazine or newspaper

www.rocketboom.com
One of better videoblogs out there, usually with something interesting to say

MONDAY

www.songmeanings.net
Plenty of lyrics sites tell you what your favourite band is singing, few let you find about what they mean

www.rememberthemilk.com
Ultra-simple and thus highly usable site to provide reminders for to-do items, birthdays, etc.

www.flylc.com
Handy listing of all low-cost European airlines, their destinations and departure airports

FRIDAY

Can you dig it?
Oldie but a goodie: singers in their 90s perform The Who’s classic My Generation. Hope y’all dig what we all say.

Shrinking game
At first the game seems so simple; your red ball must avoid the black balls. But your ball keeps shrinking.

Internet TV
100 TV channels on the internet, including everything from Al-Jazeera to MTV. A technology in the making.

THURSDAY

www.worldwidewords.org
Pedants like us love sites like this which dig out the origins of weird words and phrases

www.xboxlivegamingcentre.com/cup.html
More than €25,000 in prizes to won be playing Pro Evo Soccer in an Irish Xbox 360 competition

www.photonhead.com
If you’re a little intimidated by photography but still keen to get snapping, Photonhead will help

WEDNESDAY

www.thewvsr.com/adsvsreality.htm
Ever notice how the food in fast-foods ads never looks quite like the stuff you’re served? You’re not the only one

Wacky theory
Singer answers the not-so-burning question: What if The Beatles were Irish?

saoma.com/central
Eye-opening collection of strange statues from around the world

TUESDAY

welltoldtales.com
Podcasts of pulp fiction short stories read by professional actors

South Park guys' first project
Little known first project of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone featuring Spielberg and Stallone

www.nimble.ie
Irish wannabe rival to Bebo is in need of a good spelling and punctuation checker

MONDAY

www.sleepinginairports.net
Backpackers’ guide to slumming in it in airports rather than paying for a hotel

viewmy.tv
Another site cataloguing the breadth of online TV around the world

www.wiicade.com
If you’re wondering where to go with your Nintendo Wii’s web browser, these games will keep you amused

FRIDAY

www.webbyawards.com
The Oscars of the web have drawn up their nominees for the best of the year

www.golakes.co.uk/wordsworthrap
William’s Wordsworth poetry set to a hip-hop beat. No, really.

www.manbookerinternational.com
Full rundown of the prestigious prize for authors

THURSDAY

www.dumpr.net/museumr.php
Put your photos in a virtual musuem for all to see with this clever use of picture-sharing site Flickr

www.dail30.ie
Ambitious site planning to interview all 166 new TDs after the general election about their plans. Good luck getting anything meaningful out them

WEDNESDAY

3D in action
Fascinating YouTube video of how 3D software can create moving pictures from a still image

www.samaritans.org/artprize
A prize of two grand for the winner of this competition to create artwork dealing with mental health

www.wolfgangsvault.com
Vast archive of rock’n’roll history including free audio of legendary bands such as The Grateful Dead

TUESDAY

www.file-swap.com
Upload any file (picture, document, etc), get a random one from a stranger. Yes, it’s sad but fun

www.comicvine.com
Comic book fans need look no further than this encylopaedia of famous characters, writers, artists

talkstreamlive.com
The most popular online radio stations, updated constantly according to number of listeners

THURSDAY

www.impacdublinaward.ie
Full rundown on the Impac award, the richest prize in fiction

liberatedgames.org
Interesting list of well-known videogames now free and legally available to download

www.2spare.com
These jokes/games/oddities sites are ten-a-penny on the net but if you’ve a few minutes to waste...

WEDNESDAY

www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD
Hugely addictive browser game involving building missile launchers to tackle invaders

www.vuguru.com
New web video company from former head of Disney showing episodes of specially created drama

www.sorryaboutourpresident.com
Years after it first started, site apologising for George Bush still getting hits

TUESDAY

www.google.com/notebook
The ever-industrious Googlers have churned out another free piece of software — this one keeps tracks of little notes for you

www.picnik.com
Store and edit your photos online — fixing red-eye, poor exposure with just a few clicks. Best of all, there’s no download required

MONDAY

www.justin.tv
Would you wear a webcam 24/7 . . . even in the toilet, even on a date? Justin claims he does

www.ismybabyhealthy.ie
The Royal College of Surgeons goes online to try to help pregnant women with many questions about their baby

www.dublinonecityonebook.ie
What if everyone in Dublin read the same book this month? The city council is trying to get us do just that

FRIDAY

Ali goes North
Ali G in Northern Ireland, having the politics and history explained to him in his usual ineffable manner

Homework hilarity
The They Didn’t Study page ... including the kind remarks of baffled teachers

THURSDAY

Ski the Tube
Don’t try this at home: the YouTube video by the man who skied down the longest escalator on London’s Tube system

twentymajor.net
Irish Blog Awards winner ... who’s now got a two-book deal with a major publisher ... horribly funny stuff

askaninja.com
Ninja as agony aunt, in video or podcast form. Yes, it’s comedy, and pretty off-centre

WEDNESDAY

theonion.com
We’ve loved their fake news stories for years ... now at last The Onion has gone video, with online ‘TV news’

lennonfbifiles.com
The FBI’s files on Beatle, well-known dope smoker and subversive John Lennon

TUESDAY

www.amstel.ie
Free tickets to comedy gig in Laughter Lounge tomorrow night featuring Aussie funnyman Steve Hughes

www.kongregate.com
Huge collection of online games, free to play but costly on your time

www.citizendium.org
Many people think Wikipedia has become too inaccurate, so here’s an attempt to make a fresh start

MONDAY

www.getthecraic.com
New podcast fronted by Ian Dempsey aimed at the Irish abroad — but do they really need to charge for it?

celebs.bigulo.com
Lots of Irish ‘celebs’ have Bebo pages, this site separates the real from the fake

music.msn.com/eltonjohn
Full live show of Elton at Madison Square Garden,
performed just last night

FRIDAY

highsnobiety.com
Bloggy guide to what’s in fashion, or just about to be the chosen object of desire

Dumb Yanks?
Americans are NOT stupid, with subtitles ... another chance to laugh at the neighbours.

THURSDAY

Crazy contraptions
If you build it they will come: build the perfect mousetrap to help Tom catch Jerry in this online game

vlip.com
Too much information! Post your video blog and other users will reply with their own videos

Photoshop me
This blog gives a list of YouTube tutorials for Photoshop. Nice and handy

WEDNESDAY

charitybuzz.com
Too much money? Get advice on investing it by bidding for lunch with former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan for charity

Smart kid
Cute and funny ad for . . . something or other, with a sassy soccer kid

videpedia.org
New idea: an online video encyclopedia ... what little is there is interesting

TUESDAY

Get operating
Geek out on these Nasa-developed guides to setting up a Mac, Windows or Solaris operating system

Cop this
How police interrogation works: handy tips and tricks for
getting that confession

Ali's the greatest
Ali G interviews Posh ’n’ Becks for make benefit glorious nation of Englanstan

FRIDAY

eu.playstation.com/ps3
Just one week to go to the launch of the PS3. See what all the fuss is about

scotchspam.org.uk
Get advice on making spammers pay, from a man who won a court judgment against one

www.spotplex.com
Find out what’s hot on blogs around the world right now

THURSDAY

www.ficlets.com
Nuggets of fiction produced collaboratively by anyone and everyone online

www.blastbeat.org
Music-making competition encouraging students to learn about the business of managing bands

Get the beat
Using this online synthesiser to get some practice for the Blastbeat competition

WEDNESDAY

www.tigerfilmdub.com
Make your own hilarious dub of a kung-fu flick with this wacky site

www.lulublookerprize.com
You’ve heard of the Booker Prize, here’s the Blooker — books which started out as blogs

www.livescience.com
Exploring urban myths, strange but true facts and real science

TUESDAY

Shoot a pirate
Maddeningly addictive browser game allowing you to shoot pirates with a cannon

www.irishpropertywatch.com
Some say the boom is over, this site monitors online house listings for signs of falling prices

www.cheltenham.co.uk
The home of the racing festival, including, inevitably, podcasts of interviews with trainers

MONDAY

www.there.com
Second Life is grabbing all the attention but There offers a different virtual world to play in

click4thecause.live.com
Do your net searches using this site and Microsoft will
donate money to charity each time

Harney podcasts
The PDs catch onto this podcasting lark (sort of), with a video address from Mary Harney

FRIDAY

419eater.com
Does a disinherited prince want you to help him to regain his millions? ‘Scam baiters’ love to tease the fraudsters

Conning the conners
. . . and some 419 Eaters have a little innocent fun making alleged would-be scammers act out the Dead Parrot sketch

Going underground
Subway maps of the world: browse them and long for the day Dublin has one

THURSDAY

www.ebizarre.com
Bore your pals to tears in the pub with this selection of trivia and wacky facts

www.singshot.com/SimsLily
Modern pop is gibberish? Well, only if you listen to these versions of Lily Allen’s Smile, as recorded by The Sims

www.jimmyteenstv.com
Teens with cancer tell their stories on video. It’s cheerier than you think.

WEDNESDAY

www.loudlit.org
Free audio books of classic novels easily downloadable to your iPod

www.conservapedia.com
America’s right-wingers have taken offence at the lack of bias in Wikipedia, so here’s their own slant on things

buylesscrap.org
This is the antidote to Bono et al’s crusade to help the poor by buying consumer goods

TUESDAY

www.eurekalert.org
Science news hot off the presses (or, er, the internet)

www.rte.ie/radio
Podcasts now available of new RTE show about preparing for the Leaving Cert exams

www.awards.ie/blogawards
The results are in ... here are the best Irish bloggers of 2007

MONDAY

www.notcoming.com
Intriguing online magazine dedicated to unearthing movie gems overlooked at the box office but available on DVD

pspandme.ie
Self-consciously hip site offering art, movies, photos and music for download to your PSP

www.geocaching.com
Got a GPS receiver and feeling bored? Try these little treasure hunts

FRIDAY

www.woot.com
Woot sells cool stuff cheap, one item per day, if you miss it it’s gone. Great marketing tool if you’re launching products

Wisdom of a King
Stephen King’s Entertainment Weekly articles on everything from Anna Nicole to creating a Hallowe’en mood

Beer fling
Little building project for the weekend: the automatic beer-launching refrigerator

THURSDAY

snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/
Every day we get those magic emails about tattooists, babies and Nostradamus ... Snopes tells us if they’re true

bestrejectedadvertising.com
You think ads are bad? You should see the ones that didn’t make it to our screens

Chicken police
Don’t mess with my chook-chook or you could be up before the beak

WEDNESDAY

naama.fi
Finns can see who to vote for in elections by uploading their photo and choosing the representative who looks most like them

Easy cleaning
This blog teaches you how to clean like a maid, with fabulous tips for those dishpan hands

Movie star scientist
Jim Carrey and Conan O’Brien talk quantum physics ... stuff you knew anyway, but fun to hear it again

TUESDAY

straycinema.com
Induldge your inner movie director by download a film, re-cutting it and uploading the result

www.slowtrav.com
First we had the Slow Food movement, now here’s the similar Slow Travel campaign.

aurgasm.us
Music fans will find much to savour in this blog showcasing undiscovered gems

MONDAY

www.oscars.com
The full rundown on last night’s gong-giving, tears and speeches

prairiehome.publicradio.org/about/podcast
The genial wit of Garrison ‘Lake Woebegone Days’ Keillor’s radio show is now available in podcast form

www.sky-map.org
Amazing browseable maps of the constellations featuring
gorgeous photos

FRIDAY

wis.dm
Oh, the wit. And the wisdom of the internet from collective bookmarking

www2.b3ta.com/namethatbeard
Some beards are instantly recognisable — check if your memory is up to snuff

www.laboratory101.com/?p?51
How could you ignore a page titled ‘101 animations you must see before you die’?

THURSDAY

www.celebrities-eating.com
Curiosity is all very well — but do we really need to know what celebs look like stuffing their faces?

reddit.com

Another link-fest, guaranteed to produce a decent lunchbreak’s reading every day

www.8notes.com
Free sheet music for all you talented instrumentalists in need of something to play

WEDNESDAY

www.onemorelevel.com
We know you’d rather be playing than working, so here’s a ton of free web browser games to keep you busy

www2.b3ta.com/gruesometwosomes
Quick quiz testing your knowledge of famous duos. Which one’s Ant and which is Dec?

www.youtube.com/chelseafc
Official video clips straight from Stamford Bridge — just don’t expect any controversial stuff

TUESDAY

soapbox.msn.com
Microsoft finally launches its YouTube wannabe and it’s full of the usual knockabout stuff

Bog trotting
The toilets of the world, as seen through the eyes of a determined tourist. Not for the squeamish

www.findsounds.com
Search for sound effects for use on your computer (or home movies, etc)

MONDAY

Britney goes bald
Shear horror: the scene when Britney took the buzzcutter to her scalp

tinymap.net
Quick-loading and easy map to find your way around the world, with satellite, street or hybrid views

Book trouble
A medieval techie shows a noob how to use a ‘book’ (“Thousands of pages of text are saved in there”)

FRIDAY

antiquities.org.il
Israel is broadcasting its dig in a disputed holy site in Jerusalem, to prove it’s not damaging the antiquities

Right up your street
‘Buy immortal! in Ivad’ offers the website of Hungarian village Ivad, which offers you the right to have a street named after you, for cash

Cute kids
Here’s how the world is through the eyes of a child

THURSDAY

Gates vs Jobs
The Apple vs PC war finally sorted out in an uber-battle between Gates and Jobs using light sabres and iconic icons

The reformation
The Police at the Grammys. You don’t have to put on the red lightttt . . .

Hard on the ears
Nostalgia time for Mac-lovers: Jared, Butcher of Song, returns from the 1990s as a widget

WEDNESDAY

You go, guys
Painstakingly created video for US rockers OK Go, all shot in one take apparently

makeachange.ie
The Labour Party has gone all multimedia on us and, predictably, wants our vote

www.hotprisonpals.com
It’s Valentine’s Day and if you’re still looking for love, some prison inmates would like to hear from you

TUESDAY

www.thepolicetour.com
All the info on the reformed Police tour, straight from the horse’s mouth

www.rpmchallenge.com
Musicians are challenged to record an entire album in just a month. Anyone can participate

labs.digg.com/bigspy
Visually impressive and constantly updated list of the hot
stories at geek tech site Digg

MONDAY

www.zeebys.com
Everybody has their own awards ceremony these days — and the world of free online games is no different

www.morguefile.com
If you’re ever looking for freely reusable stock photos, the charmingly titled Morgue File is your man

www.hp-lexicon.org
Everything you ever wanted to know about Harry Potter but were afraid to ask

FRIDAY

www.gmail.com
Is there anyone without a Gmail account? Now it’s been made freely available instead of invitation-only

www.guinnesshands.com
Amusing animation plugging the stout, but you can also do your own mash-up

www.amillionpenguins.com
Here’s writing by democracy - a novel co-authored by anyone who wants to add a bit

THURSDAY

www.simshorts.com
Ingenious web users create movies using tools from The Sims games, with entertaining results

www.dailycandy.com
Acerbic online magazine which produced the guide to awards seasons slang

www.flixxy.com
Latest in a long line of YouTube hangers-on, promising the cream of the vids from all sites

WEDNESDAY

Friendly fire on tape
The full video of the tragic friendly-fire incident in Iraq which is causing so much controversy (see page 8)

www.rte.ie/tv/listing.html
RTE reintroduces its mighty handy online TV listings — shame there aren’t more days in advance to it

www.webwise.ie
Yesterday was Safer Internet Day, learn how to protect yourself and your kids online

TUESDAY

www.stellaawards.com
It doesn’t look great but the Stella site reveals the most bizarre lawsuits in America

Short Irish film
Several Irish short films now available to view on your PSP, but paranoid Sony makes it so difficult to download them

search.gov.ie
First port of call if you’re looking for some info from the Government

MONDAY

www.linerider.com
Internet phenomenon which asks you to draw a landscape on-screen for your little sled man to follow

www.groundhog.org
The legendary Punxsutawney Phil — remember the Bill Murray movie? — has given his verdict for the coming year

digicc.com/fido/
Number puzzle in which Fido of 7Up fame guesses a digit you’re thinking of. Irritatingly, he always gets it right

FRIDAY

www.jkrowling.com
Get the dope on Harry’s last adventure, straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak

Read the news, learn a language
Learn foreign languages through freely available news
podcasts

www.convinceme.net
Which are better: ninjas or pirates? This — and many other philosophical conundrums — are debated at ConvinceMe

THURSDAY

smashingtelly.com
The weirdest and the wildest from the goggle box around the world

www.guinnessfantasyrugby.com
The Six Nations starts on Sunday, see if you can pick the winning team

www.stpatricksfestival.ie
The festival of green beer and silly hats returns for another weekend of shenanigans

WEDNESDAY

www.rte.ie
National broadcaster’s site gets a redesign but not necessarily any new content

windowsvistablog.com
So Windows Vista has launched (ho-hum) — read the blog of the creators here

www.nationmaster.com
Bottomless pit of stats and info about the countries of the world

TUESDAY

www.nme.com/awards
Full rundown of the NME Awards, including a chance to vote

Call centre revenge
Entertaining story of guy having problem with his Xbox
360 trying to get revenge on Microsoft

www.getafirstlife.com
Been playing virtual world Second Life a bit too much? This
satire tells you where you’re going wrong

MONDAY

www.fxguide.com
Want to know how the special effects on Hollywood blockbusters are achieved? The pros reveal the secrets . . .

www.irishwomenonline.com
Find like-minded members of the sisterhood for gossip and advice

www.pl104.com
FM104 launches a Polish edition of its website ... but no radio station, so far

FRIDAY

Corporate cringe
Cringe along with the Shell company song, allegedly created by staff on a motovational seminar.

Global warming
Footage of Tony Blair speaking on global warming introduces some scary statistics. Inspiring, eh?

Globetrotting tat
Clever set of Flickr photos involving tacky souvenirs snapped at famous locations

THURSDAY

www.radio-locator.com
Country-by-country guide to the world’s radio stations, many of which have online streams

www.brainpop.com
Cute animations teach schoolkids about science, health and
language. They’ll be learning and not even know it

www.funkyarcade.net/game188.html
What’s better than a free version of Pac-Man? Why, a free version of Ms Pac-Man, of course

WEDNESDAY

www.arkivmusic.com/classical/main.jsp
A great central resource for finding all your favourite classical recordings

tinyurl.com/ynqb2h
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole plays his ukelele and sings Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World

 

TUESDAY

www.vidmeter.com
League table of the top videos across the well known sharing sites such as YouTube, MySpace, etc

extremeironing.com
What started as a joke is now obviously being taken very seriously around the world

www.razzies.com
Read the full line-up of the ‘anti-Oscars’ announced yesterday
 

MONDAY

Stealing your own bike
It’s truly sad to watch what happens when some New Yorkers decide to steal their own bike on a crowded street

www.thecustard.tv
Daily guide to the best on TV, alerting you to new series and combing the far reaches of satellite land

www.chessandpoker.com
Solutions and strategies to popular card and board games, including sudoku and Rubik’s Cube

 

FRIDAY

www.glumbert.com
Another YouTube wannabe, this one devoted to the zaniest vids on the net

www.myvue.com/schools
Cinema chain is offering schools a neat way to raise money by offering free screenings of movies

Endless entertainment
The 101 top web games for 2007 as picked by the experts at 1up.com

 

THURSDAY

www.parkatmyhouse.com
It’s UK-only so far but a genius idea — rent a parking space from someone who has a driveway but no car

www.streamick.com
Forget Sky and NTL, here’s a healthy selection of online TV channels

festival.sundance.org/2007/
The revered Sundance Film Festival is making many of its short flicks free online from today

WEDNESDAY

Crazy spiders
Wacky video spoofing anti-drug adverts — but using spiders

www.pledgebank.com
Be a good citizen and make a promise to improve your community — if others will help

awards.ie
If you like an Irish blog, why not nominate it for the Irish Blog Awards?

 

TUESDAY

www.finetune.com
Create a streaming radio station based on your music preferences

www.comedycentral.com/motherload
Tons of amusing clips from those funny guys and gals at Comedy Central

www.chicklit.co.uk
Fans of women’s fiction will feel right at home at this guide to the best books for gals

 

MONDAY

newsbiscuit.com
Cynical, sarcastic and scathing — just how we like our fake news sites

www.flightoftheearls.ie
It’s the 400th anniversary of the Flight of the Earls. Read all about it

cranky.com
A search engine for the over-50s, simplifying all this internet stuff for the silver surfers
 

FRIDAY

www.classicsandjazz.co.uk
We're nothing if not cultured at Herald AM and this new
music site offers downloads of, well, guess . . .

shorttext.com
Incredibly simple way to post text or images online, like a
once-off blog, for example

runfatboy.net
Need motivation or excuse to start a New Year
diet/exercise programme?

THURSDAY

www.ovguide.com
A sort of RTE Guide for online video, connecting you with
YouTube and its many imitators

www.rip.ie
Unusual resource for anyone faced with planning a funeral
or simply finding out who’s died

runningfromcamera.blogspot.com
Only on the internet ... a collection of photos of
self-portraits of people running away

WEDNESDAY

Video ga-ga
Alternative music site DoCopenhagen’s favourite music
videos

cookingcute.com
It’s time to tackle that end-of-year bulge, and the best way
is by making delicious stuff to take to work

en.wikisource.org
Thousands of out-of-copyright works, with many classics,
even one by Bertie Ahern, online for your delectation

TUESDAY

www.earthalbum.com
Searchable world map which pulls the best images from
photo-sharing site Flickr

www.chinesepod.com
We know you've all been busting to learn Mandarin
Chinese. Now you can with these podcasts

www.bafta.org
Full list and bios of the nominees in this year's Bafta Rising
Star category

MONDAY

www.moviebodycounts.com
Macabre site tallying the deaths in every movie. At the top
so far: Lord of the Rings

www.letterpop.com
Build your own colourful newsletters using stylish
templates for easy e-mailing to others

Galaxy gazing
Beautiful pictures of faraway galaxies taken by Nasa’s
giant telescopes. No aliens in sight, though

FRIDAY

www.flashearth.com
View half a dozen competing map/satellite sites in one
window

www.platform11.org
The home of the Irish rail users group — share your
grievances and make your voice heard

Have a nose around Tony's gaff
See inside No. 10 Downing Street and take a virtual tour

THURSDAY

www.channel4.com/bigbrother
All the news of one of the world’s great directors, a
Bollywood star, Face from the A-Team et al

Penguins go hip-hop
The gangsta remix of Happy Feet has already had almost
half a million hits on YouTube

media-convert.com
Free web converter magics files up to 100MB from one
format to another

WEDNESDAY

www.starwarscutscenes.com
The greatest story ever told left some bits on the
cutting-room floor. Here they are

www.popcap.com
Lots of free browser games from the people who brought
us the classic Bejeweled

www.willitblend.com
What happens when you stick a Barbie in a blender? Or a
crowbar? Or an oyster. Watch and learn

TUESDAY

www.last.fm
Tell this online `radio station' what kind of music you like,
and it'll play it for you

Soul legend James Brown in action, RIP
James Brown performs I Feel Good. Classic performance
from the late great soul artist

Learn the lingo, podcast-style
Want to learn a language in 2007? This is the ultimate
collection of multilingual podcasts