www.darwinawards.com
The Darwin Awards honour those who improve our gene pool, by removing themselves from it. That is, by accidentally killing themselves in really stupid ways. Therefore, this honour is given posthumously.
It’s awe-inspiring stupidity at its best. A man shoots himself while explaining gun safety to his wife. A farmer avoids bee stings by sealing his head in a plastic bag. A man saws through a branch directly overhead.
Here’s more.
A 23-year-old bar-brawler who had been escorted out of the Turtle Club in Florida by a bouncer, sneaked back in and leaped off a staircase, aiming a kick at another man, but was killed when he landed on his head. Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet, didn’t put enough postage on a letter bomb, and it came back marked ‘return to sender’. He opened the package and was blown away. Two animal rights activists were protesting the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn by freeing a captive herd. Suddenly all two thousand of pigs stampeded through the gate they were opening, and trampled the hapless protesters to death. In San Jose, California, Herman, an avid hunter, used the butt of his shotgun to bash his girlfriend’s windshield during an argument. But his loaded gun accidentally discharged into his stomach, killing him and ending the argument.
www.worth1000.com
Watch movie stills you would never have seen on the screen, big or small. Like how Hannibal makes sexual advances with the detective. Or how Spiderman’s realises the trouble with tight spandex when it gets ripped in the middle. Or the scene in a pre-historic war movie showing the warrior with an aeroplane in the background. These are not actual footages, but a result of some cool photoshop work by nifty designers.
Before we forget, Worth1000 is a creative competition and photoshop contest site on the web. Don’t take their word for it. Let their 2,732 galleries of 88,675 original images speak for themselves.
www.thespoof.com
Like lots of companies, The Spoof originally had another name. Back then, in 1997, it was called There’s No Place Like Home. It was a fairly useless online magazine, it was never updated. But, in the summer of 1998, it all changed.
Laughsend was born. Laughsend was the follow-up website to There’s No Place Like Home. It was fresher, dynamic and let anyone write the stories.
Anyone!? Yes, that’s the legacy that Laughsend has handed down to The Spoof; the idea of letting multi-talented writers and comedy writers get themselves on the web.
And then Laughsend died.
Or was near-mortally wounded. It died because, as automated as it tried to be, it still took too much administration time for two people. It died because it got tired, and so did the people running it.
After so many years of spoof, Mark and Paul (the two running the show so far) finally decided to retire and sought out another like-minded person to continue to develop The Spoof. In March 2004, Jack O’Farrell took up the helm and has been developing it ever since.
Farrell’s team serves it up fresh every minute of the day like other newspapers, but it always aims at the jugular. It tries to focus on current affairs, sports, science, gossip and entertainment news but also on simply good humour writing.
The Spoof is a satire newspaper on the Internet providing an irreverent and satirical slant to the current big news stories. They rely entirely on readers to submit stories to them. All the material on the site is submitted online and goes live from there. The website encourages writers to craft stories carefully to make them as entertaining as can be managed. They encourage you to try writing a story for them and get judged on how well you fare in their weekly writer’s poll (that’s your 15 minutes of fame if you get it right).
News aside, there are funny pieces, celebrity diaries, caption contests, fun horoscopes, a discussion forum and other cool links. No wonder over 10,000 readers seem to be visiting the site each day to have a good laugh and give time a break. Won’t be surprised if there are many more after reading this one.
www.beautifulagony.com
It’s not a porn site. But it may be one of the most erotic sites on the Net. What’s your come face? If you’ve never thought about it before, the question might plague you after visiting this site. The new Australian-based website features dozens of short home videos in which individuals take themselves to a happier place. In these two-minute, one-person docudramas, the camera remains focused on subjects’ faces. There’s no nudity (just audio), but each download is undeniably erotic. The men and women featured exhibit a range of facial expressions as vast as an emoticon chart. So is this art, comedy or alternaporn? And does watching people’s orgasms for a living make you insecure about your own? Go figure.
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