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