Sunday, January 10, 2010

Entertainment

This is the page for things that intentionally release serotonin.

Audience Participation

Improv Everywhere (improveverywhere.com)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show - The Official Fan Site! (rockyhorror.com)

Books and Audiobooks

Aesop's Fables (aesopfables.com)

Bartleby.com (bartleby.com)
Classic books and op-up ads

Bibliomania (bibliomania.com)

Free Kindle Ebooks (thekindlewarehouse.com)

Grimm's Fairy Tales (cmu.edu)

Grimm's Fairy Tales (familymanagement.com)

Google Books (google.com)

LibriVox (librivox.org)
Free audiobook collection

Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org)

Scribd (scribd.com)

Comedy, Comedians, and General Humor

Steve Allen (steveallenonline.com)

also see: YouTube results page for Steve Allen (youtube.com)

Dave Barry (davebarry.com)

Jim Breuer (jimbreuer.com)

also see: YouTube results page for Jim Breuer (youtube.com)

CollegeHumor.com (collegehumor.com) (submitted by Clifton)

Bill Hicks (billhicks.com)

also see: YouTube results page for Bill Hicks (youtube.com)

Joke Frog (jokefrog.com) (submitted by Joseph)

Kids in The Hall (kidsinthehall.com)

also see: YouTube results for Kids in The Hall (youtube.com)

Don Rickles (thehockeypuck.com)

also see: YouTube results page for Don Rickles (youtube.com)


Comic Strips / Web Comics

If there is no easy way to automatically link to the newest comic in a series, I will probably link to the very first.

Ask Dr. Eldritch (askdreldritch.com)
One of the most popular action-figure photography webcomics

also see: 26 Reasons to Read Ask Dr. Eldritch in 30 Seconds (youtube.com)

Comics.com (comics.com)
Syndicated comic strips and editorial cartoons

Bonobo Conspiracy (ansuz.sooke.bc.ca)
The life and daydreams of a teacher's assistant.

Cyanide and Happiness (explosm.net)
Stick figures and slapstick humor.

F8D (f8d.org)
This mix of abstract shapes and philosophy can make for long afternoons of careful reading.

Garfield Minus Garfield (garfieldminusgarfield.net)
What if the fattest cat in syndication was just the hallucination of his owner?

Homestar Runner (homestarrunner.com)
It's animated.

In His Likeness, by James Hatton (inhislikeness.com)
Gentle monotheism-vs.-polytheism humor

Order of the Stick (giantitp.com)
Stick figures in a Dungeons and Dragons world

Penny Arcade (penny-arcade.com)
They run a nice charity towards Christmas.

Top Web Comics (topwebcomics.com)
This popularity contest of online artistry can introduce you to a variety of
things considered not safe for work (NSFW).

xkcd (xkcd.com)
Physics, the meaning of life, and the search for true love.

DeMotivational Images

Demotivate Us (demotivateus.com)
Lots of pop-up ads... LOTS

Despair, Inc (despair.com)
This collection of very professional cynical posters is connected, of course, to merchandise.

Also see: Despair, Inc., DIY page (despair.com)

Fakeposters (fakeposters.com)

Funny Junk (funnyjunk.com)

People of WalMart (peopleofwalmart.com) (submitted by Jordan)

Music

Amazon.com's free MP3 page (amazon.com)

Ants Marching (antsmarching.org)
Dave Matthews fandom (submitted by Eric)

Christian Lyrics Online (christianlyricsonline.com) (submitted by Joseph)

Lyrics Search Engine (lyrics.astraweb.com) (submitted by Savannah)

Myxer (myxer.com)
Music ringtones (submitted by Samantha)

OTS Turntables (otsturntables.com)
Virtual DJ software lets you mix tracks together in a variety of ways (submitted by Bryer)

Ultimate Guitar (ultimate-guitar.com) (submitted by Jordan)

Random Experiences

Brainbashers (brainbashers.com)
Riddles and puzzles (submitted by Jennifer)

Bubble.org (bubbles.org)

Crazy Libs (rinkworks.com)
Online Mad-libs

Dancing Baby Dance Club (dbaby.com)
The fads of 1997 are still here if you need them.

eLibs (elibs.com)
Online Mad-libs

Internet Anagram Server(wordsmith.org)

Kvetch (kvetch.com)

Mad Glibs(madglibs.com)
Online Mad-libs

Mega Baby (megababy.com)
Another dancing baby animation site

Texts from Last Night (textsfromlastnight.com) (submitted by Samantha)

Wacky Web Tales (eduplace.com)
Online Mad-libs

Scripts and Screenplays

Drew's Script-O-Rama (script-o-rama.com)

Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb) (imsdb.com)

Movie-Page (movie-page.com)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (oscars.org)
These suggestions include a sample script with formatting notes and an extensive bibliography for aspiring writers

Script Crawler (scriptcrawler.net)

Simply Scripts (simplyscripts.com)

Streaming Music

Blip.fm (blip.fm)
requires free membership to use

Digitally Imported (di.fm)
Several styles of dance, trance, techno, etc., with free and premium versionsof each channel. This streams to a separate audio player, such as iTunes orVLC, rather than in your web browser.

Last.fm (last.fm)
Streaming music by artist or style; limited video content on artist pages; no membership required or mandatory login; playlist occasionally pauses to see if you are still alive; works with iPhones

Live365.com (live365.com)
Listen for free, or pay to become a dj.

Pandora (pandora.com)
Streaming music by artist or style; requires free membership for use

Playlist (playlist.com)
A social network for music fans that looks a lot like Last.fm, but with ringtones instead of videos (submitted by Albert)

SHOUTcast (shoutcast.com)

Slacker (slacker.com)
Streaming music by artist or style; smaller library than other major services; works with Blackberry phones, iPhones, and iPod Touch (free membership required); login request appears around 15th song; integrated ads between songs

Streaming Video

ABC (abc.go.com)
While you can watch episodes online, ABC insists on using custom software rather than the popular Flash video format.

blinkx (blinkx.com)
A video search engine with animated thumbnails and previews

Blip.tv (blip.tv)
Fiar-to-high-quality user-made content, including news, anti-news, how-toshows, and humor

CBS

Crackle (crackle.com)

Daily Motion (dailymotion.com)

The Discovery Channel (discovery.com)

EffinFunny (effinfunny.com)
uncensored comedy and stand-up

Everything is Terrible (everythingisterrible.com)
Video gone bad. "If everything is terrible, then nothing is." (submitted byDanny)

Funny or Die (funnyordie.com) (submitted by Danny)

GameTrailers.com(gametrailers.com)
Advance footage for upcoming games, mixed with some user content

Hulu (hulu.com)
Fair-to-high quality professional content; requires free membership for rated R or equivalent material.

KeepVid (keepvid.com)
Under some circumstances, using this kind of service is not ethical.

Like Television (liketelevision.com)
A small collection of classic cartoons, commercials, and tv series

Machinima.com (machinima.com)
User-made content created inside computer and video games

MetaCafe (metacafe.com)
Includes a lot of straight-from-tv content; humor, sports, and more; there maybe some images that are not safe for work (NSFW) on the front page

Movie Trailers at Yahoo! (yahoo.com)
Many websites carry some mix of movie previews, trailers, or behind-the scenesfootage, but Yahoo lets you search for theaters by city, state, and/or zip codewith the Showtimes & Tickets tab when you're done.

MTV2 (mtv.com) (submitted by Mike)

NBC Video Library (nbc.com)

Revver (revver.com)

YouTube (youtube.com)
A wide variety of content sources and styles; requires free membership for rated R or equivalent material.

U Stream (ustream.tv)

VideoJug (videojug.com)
How-to and self-help video

Vimeo (vimeo.com)

World Star Hip Hop (worldstarhiphop.com) (submitted by Mike)

Streaming Video - Series

Colbert Nation (colbertnation.com)

Get Toasted with Eric Ripert (blip.tv)
This series on Blip.tv challenges a four-star French chef to do something productive with a toaster oven.

The Guild (watchtheguild.com)
A satiric sitcom on the lives of World of Warcraft addicts.

iJustine (tastyblogsnack.com)
A prolific mix of tech news, reviews, and silliness.

The Lonely Island (youtube.com)
The YouTube channel for Andy Samberg and friends

Penny Arcade TV (penny-arcade.com)
Watch the process of bringing an online comic strip to life.

also see: Penny Arcade archives at UStream (ustream.tv)

Pro At Cooking (proatcooking.com)
This spin-off of Pure Pwnage features Dawei (Dave) as the meanest cook ever.

Pure Pwnage (purepwnage.com)
A pseudo-documentary on pro gamers, like Spinal Tap with super powers.

Red vs.Blue (rvb.roosterteeth.com)
The characters inside a Halo multiplayer map decide they don't want to play anymore. They still hate each other, but they don't want to play.

Ridley Report (ridleyreport.com)
Social activism in New Hampshire (submitted by Danny)

Star Wars Uncut (starwarsuncut.com)Stick Figure Death Theatre (sfdt.com)

Weblogs / Zines / Smaller Websites

Ben Heck (benheck.com)
The weblog of a man who designs customized game consoles and accessories, including laptop versions of the Playstation 3, XBox 360, and Wii

Four Hour Workweek (fourhourworkweek.com)

it-he (it-he.org)
Funny commentary and anti-walkthrough ideas for several older computer games

Microhorror (microhorror.com)

Sleep Talkin' Man (sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com)

Tattoos.com (tattoos.com) (submitted by Karrigan)

Two Sentence Stories (twosentencestories.com)

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