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