Canadian Literary Links

Funny/Strange/Cool

• Ambigram Generator, silly but fun.
• Banished Words
• The Brunching Shuttlecocks
• Chomskybot
• Context-Free Complaint Letter Generator by Scott Pakin  -- Why repeat yourself all the time?
• Tongue-tied when writing to your sweetie? There's a precedent! Get help from

The Cyrano Server.
• The Darwin Awards, dedicated to honouring those individuals who have

given their all in an effort to improve our gene pool
• International Save the Pun Foundation 
• Is someone driving you crazy? Try this.
• The Exploratorium -- lots of interesting stuff here!
• My new favourite charity: The Home for Abused Apostrophes needs your support now.
• fray
• International Save the Pun Foundation 
• Juice
• Linguistic Fun and Word Play
• Mark's Apology Note Generator for guys, and Mark's Bitch Letter Generator, for gals (equal opportunity!)
• Monk.Com 
• Naked Mole Rat Time-Lapse Cam
• The Onion, a source of dubious news. 
• Palindromes in several languages 

 
 

Take out your frustrations on a complete stranger. Poke Alex in the Eye! You know you want to. 

Political Babble Generator

Proverb Generator 

Rec.humor.funny archive

Save the Adverb 

Shakespearean Insult Generator 

The Smoking Gun

Sniglets

Casey's Snow Day Reverse Dictionary.If this actually worked, I'd list it in the "useful" category. You enter the definition of the word you can't remember, and it tries to suggest what word it might be. When I entered "thing you put a sword in," it suggested "grandchild." You can also ask it philosophical questions. When asked "What is Art for?" the top answer was "Firewood." 

The Straight Dope has been fighting ignorance since 1973 (it's taking longer than they thought). 

Surrealist Compliment Generator 

The Damndest Thing

For the ultimate in wasting time on the Web, try the Useless Pages 

Always wanted a Viking Nickname, like Brynhild Bloodaxe? Visit Gorm's Viking Name Generator 

Web Site Garage provides some great free and affordable services for tuning up your web site and making images load faster. 

Word Game of the Day

Other Canadian Resources

• Bravo! Art Network
• Canadian Press
• Canada Rocks the World! 
• CanadaSearch! What's New in Canada 
• Canadian Childrens' Book Centre
• Canadiana Canadian Resource Page
• Canuck Site of the Day
• Canadian Culture site (National) 
• Canadian Government Information Finder (doesn't work right--kind of like its creators)

 
 
 
 

CultureNet (National) 

EDS Guide to the Internet for Southwestern Ontario. 

Freedom of Expression Links 

Maple Square

Swany Stratford

 

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