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Picks of the Week - What's New - US Picks - Yahoo! Aust./NZ Picks - Yahoo! Canada Picks - Yahoo! France Picks - Yahoo! Germany Picks - Irish Picks - Scottish Picks
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Picks of the Week - What's New - US Picks - Yahoo! Aust./NZ Picks - Yahoo! Canada Picks - Yahoo! France Picks - Yahoo! Germany Picks - Irish Picks - Scottish Picks
We've had fun discovering those sites that make Yahoo! UK & Ireland one of the best places to find UK or Irish sites on the Internet, and we enjoy sharing a few of them with you. Feel free to send us a note about any sites you think we should consider for a future issue or any general thoughts and comments about Picks of the Week. Click here if you only want to view the list of sites.
The USA may have The Onion, a source of much merriment among the Picks team every week, but it's good to see UK site, The Weekly, following its lead with a digest of absurd, fabricated but nonetheless amusing news. With headlines like 'Recording Of Car Crash Revives Enya Coma Victim' and 'Singing Toucan Dissolves Brittle Grandmother' you should get the idea of where The Weekly is coming from. The letters page should raise a laugh or two as well, taking its lead no doubt from Viz Comic.
In a similar vein, the Electronic Peel Bell is a wonderfully inventive parody of a local small town newspaper. Not only do you get 100% purely fake news, sport, features and articles, there's also another amusing letters page and best of all, one of funniest spoof classified sections you'll ever see on the Internet.
Continuing on a theme of spoof and parody, another honourable mention goes out to F! Magazine, the tag-line of which is "the information super-detour". There's a wealth of fun to be had on this site. Once again, there's the statutory news and classifieds, but there's also games to play including the charmingly-titled "Escape From The Wombles of Hell" and articles about everything from war, technology, cookery and the history of... erm... paper-clips.
Direct from Dublin comes P45 - Wasting Time @ Work. The site gives you plenty of opportunity to slack and have fun at the same time. There's silly .EXE file downloads to be had, forums and chatrooms, a weekly serial and the highly entertaining Bonomatic for the People, a random-lyric generator so that you can write songs just like Bono of U2.
By the way, shouldn't you be working? For the slacker in you comes IShouldBeWorking.com, dedicated to, and I quote, "slackers, goof-offs, procrastinators, loafers, 'long lunchers' and web addicted employees worldwide." As well as listing a whole bundle of sites you can while away the hours browsing through, IShouldBeWorking.com features loafing tips, cartoons and the chance to send e-cards to your friends. Just make sure your boss doesn't catch you. Damn... here comes mine... "No, I was working... honest..."