Or if that isn't your speed, just give us a text link on your site, mention us in your blog or Live Journal or at the very least tell all your friends about it.
With that out of the way, let's get on to the real reason you're here; my links page...
Your link here!
Please, dear Lord in heaven, read this first. It is very hard to get listed on this page.
Earn your way by running one of the very best sites the net has to offer.
Run a satire site with an RSS, XML or JavaScript headline feeder.
Don't meet those criteria but still want to be listed? Have no fear, you can always slap me an Andrew Jackson and become a sponsor. Sponsors are listed on every page of the site and get more exposure than these links.
Sleep with me? Probably not, sorry.
But...
What follows is a list comprising only the very best sites on the net and not one of them has ever slept with me or spotted me a dime. Can you believe that?
Studio 8 - Brock and Chris are about more than writing fake articles. They do progressive satire such as their AOL victims section, their "family of five dysfunctional reviews" and my favorite, their series articles. A definite destination on the net.
Broken Newz is one of the more senior sites out there and by all measures as professional as a site gets. It's published regularly, the writers represent a diverse pool of views, thoughts and styles. Best of all it's consistently hysterical.
Glossy News has been around two years and publishes more material than anyone I've ever seen. It's a bit off-color so don't bring your gramma along with you, but if you want to see satire about the hottest young chicks, gay politicians or racist wackos this place may become your new home. Also, they are very good about accepting submissions from outside their paper and it show, they have over 40 writers on hand.
The Onion is comprised of jaded journalist wannabe's and mega-k'jillionaires. In any case they're a bunch of egotistical pricks as well as the funniest bastards on the net. And if you like being inundated with overbearing ads just for the joy of reading a few scraps of well-written satire, this place is your kind of place!
Landover Baptist is another one of those brilliant bastards whom I've never been able to reach for comment in my two years of trying. Maybe they know I'm ordained through one of those internet guys and maybe my email shows up as spam. No matter, it is hands down the most brilliant religious satire I've ever seen or indeed even imagined. Forget fake articles and joke sermons this site goes miles beyond. There's the book burning club, the Sunday school ministries and lengthy descriptions of their mega-mall style church compound. If this was a cult instead of a satire site it would be the most successful movement since Catholicism.
Whitehouse.org was a pretty good political spoof site, that is until they got a threatening letter from a certain politicians wife trying to shut them down. The ACLU got all over it (and rightly so) and they got the attention they deserved. Now they are a political satire and almost awareness type of gig with strong readership and consistent, high quality material.
When I very first saw Watley Review I was not impressed. It was a cute site appearing to be run by a hundred-year-old codger with a long lost perspective on life. Over time any publication can settle into it's own right but Watley did it within maybe three issues and has been nothing but polish and shine since then. Watley holds the rare distinction of having been thrown to the wolves and walking out with a donated fur coat… well, not literally but that's how the harshest critics I know have welcomed him.
Bob from Accounting is a funny bastard and rumored to be the writer behind many popular Hollywood TV shows. All I know is my contact with him over the years has been limited and pleasant and that his site is funny as hell. There you go.
The Blue Brick is powered by one Doug Small, an executive sort somewhere in the southeast of the US. His coding and site technology is rudimentary but his content is golden, which is why he's been on TV and in the newspaper as an expert on current events… but wait, the events he reports aren't real? Oh I forgot that doesn't matter anymore, never mind.
Perplexing Times set a record in 2003 for being home to the worlds youngest journalist only to have that record usurped months later by his own in-utero brother. If you've ever wanted to see news break through the eyes of a toddler, you need to check it out. They've won many awards and are very well read. That, and it's a daily published site. Man, I don't even write that much! Oh, and if it appears there's two kids writing it, some very reliable information I have tells me it is all coming from the same parental ghost writer.
Oh man, I totally wish I'd thought of the department of Social Scrutiny. I don't live in the UK but the site would work just as well as an American concept. You'd never know from reading it but I happen to be on the inside for this one, it IS in fact a one-man show. It's written in the vein of propaganda though with an occasional joke to remind you that the lies you read are intended to amuse rather than distract.
If you've ever heard Andy Borowitz on NPR then you know about the Borowitz Report. It's a daily current events satire site that is refreshingly free of ads and amazingly funny, especially considering the body of work he expects himself to produce. Could you be that funny every day and if so how can you kid yourself into thinking so? On a side note he thinks sites that run ads are impure and brags that he doesn't have to do so to make a living… of course he does charge $10,000 for corporate appearances so there you go, who's the real whore?
Real Ultimate Power is the one site really and truly dedicated to helping the world understand just how cool ninjas are and why we should all wish to be them.
Do you have black friends and think that somehow precludes you from being a total racist prick? So does the brother/sister humor team at Black People Love Us and they're ready to stand on a mountain and scream out to the world just how humble they really are.
Uncle Melon is one crazy, messed up dude. I don't know these people or the how's and why's of them running their site, but it is unpresumptiously top notch. Check out the How to Use Your Vagina or Penis article if you're in doubt. It's complete with illustrations… are you complete with illustrations?
Ever wondered how many ways you could take a single joke and make it funny? The Funny Hitman posed that questions and the answer he came up with is "K'Jillions". The site features a George W. Bush article generator, Chinese restaurant and menu generator and porno movie generator, all at total random. Great fun for hours of repetitive clicking and re-clicking. Especially brilliant for the attention span impaired among us.
PimpCentral.org is another one of those sub-culture pop sensations. It's an almost cartoonishly comical site about how to be a pimp, who the real (and best) pimps are, and it even offers you a page of pimp classifieds just in case you have vice to hawk or can't pawn your goods on Ebay anymore.
Homestar Runner… that's kind of all I'm going to say about that. If you don't know what it is you must go there now. Check out the first time here section, or maybe the Jorb Well Done cartoon or maybe some of the emails sent in to Strong Bad. This site defines what internet humor should be. Also, there's no site with more Easter eggs in wait than Homestar Runner.
Sparks Alc/Energy Drink. If you like the drink you'll surely dig the site. It's the most thoroughly built and innovative navigation experiences I've seen from a corporate site.
Humor Links is the best run humor directory on the net. It's got thousands of listings across satire, flash, jokes, games and anything else you could want. Sites have rankings, reviews and traffic statistics all easily browsable or searchable. Even the search function has a search function. You want a killer way to find just the site you never knew you were always missing, this is it.
The Internet Satirical Newspaper Association is about 7 years old. It was originally operated by the Frumerious Bandersnatch and later handed off to Glossy News. It lists hundreds of satire sites broken down by genre and publishing frequency. If you're a real satire junky this is another good place to go.
We don't actually have a relationship with the Satire Awards but we do run a similar business which I guess you could say is the ongoing propagation of all things satirical on the web. The site is constantly being upgraded and updated to make more sites eligible and interested in actively participating. If you're less the satire junky and more the casual satire connoisseur this site can help you forgo the bottom 98% of web satire and just get on to the stuff that really rocks the party.
Bored at Work ain't fancy but it features nothing but high quality links of a high-sterical nature.
Fark used to be an interesting link community but overtime the links have grown less interesting and the community has grown vastly more so. A cursory overview will find the links featured are pretty good and pretty interesting but a deeper look at the comment screens (and indeed the photoshop contests) will help you understand why this site is so popular. For all the cynicism and venom within those forums lies a population of mean intelligence and mean humor far above the rest of us, and far, far above the average on the net. It's kind of embarrassing actually.
Madville is a site very similar to Fark in my opinion except they run more links in a given day and over a wider variety of topics. Here the fun is not commonly found in the comments but rather in the links themselves. Overall a very good waste of time.
If you like wasting time but like indecent content even more, Attu is your man. He's this insanely prolific blogger in Holland who finds huge amounts of links on both English and non-English sites with boobies, humor, art and news. It's mind-boggling that he runs a one-man show considering the consistently high quality. Hope he's making some money or something, it would be a loss for the web to lose his site… though I guess we could spend a few years browsing his archives.
Resources
If you're looking for pictures of anybody or anything, just use images.google.com. Look up an actor or actress by name, find a movie poster, anything. Stop searching for pictures using Google and start using Google Images. It will revolutionize your life as it did mine.
IMDB.com is the name for the Internet Movie Database. It's got almost every movie you've ever heard of with all the cast and crew listed, trivia, how much money it made, goof ups, you name it. If you've never seen IMDB.com you are not in the know and Mr. Satire is here to learn you better and give you a schooling. Go there now, I insist.
TV Tome is a lot like IMDB except with TV shows. It lists all kinds of actors and actresses for past and current shows and in many cases can tell you the plot of your favorite show many months in advance. Yeah, I knew the outcome of My Big Fat Fiancé the day I watched the first episode. Slick shtuff man.
The Library of Halexandria is a great place to get smarterer. It's got a conspiracy flavor theory but any article will gladly straddle either side of the fence. It's not about changing your thinking it's about educating you to a point where you can see ways to change your own. Check out their conspiracy theory pages or the biography in quotes of Douglas Adams.
Have you ever wondered How Stuff Works? This site covers basic background info on everything from jet engines to online marketing. A very fun read, especially if you don't care what you're looking to learn.
Erowid.org is the most comprehensive and unbiased illicit drug information site. If you want to research a drug you can read chemical composition, drug-specific laws, and even a wealth of personal experience logs from various readers. How many drugs can you name? Shulgin alone invented several hundred, so how much do you really know, Mr. Expert?
Hardcore Junky... Let's not kid one another, we are men of action. Whatever your (legal) pleasure this site has it linked with free gallery after free gallery, all neatly categorized and honestly described.
