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As far as we're concerned, people should stop being so concerned about everything. So just relax, and enjoy some entertaining little corners of the good ol' informative superb-highway. Don't forget to email us your own recommendations:

Neal Pollack's Maelstrom
Hey, look everyone. Neal Pollack has a Web site. Big deal, right? Ooo! I have a Web site. Look at me. I am electronically cool. Thing is, though, Neal Pollack is pretty electronically cool. So go check him out.

Tom the Dancing Bug
One of the best thought-provoking cartoons out there, Tom the Dancing Bug features 0 characters named Tom, 0 bugs who dance, and 0 bugs who dance and are also named Tom. What? Huh? Hmm? Thought-provoking!

Girls Eating Sandwiches
This site is pretty simple and self-explanatory, but for some reason it just always gets us laughing. Truly, this is what the Internet was made for.

Quorum of One
The lovely and talented David Jaggard lives and works in France, but don’t hold that against him. He has never seen a Jerry Lewis movie, he bathes regularly, and he doesn't know the meaning of surrender. Also, Mr. Jaggard is a composer of funny songs, and his site includes MP3 downloads which can be found at this URL: http://choppingedge.com/quorum

Monkeybicycle
Steven Seighman’s brainchild is even better than the six monkeys who would supposedly recreate the works of Shakespeare if given a typewriter and enough time. It’s even better because Seighman’s monkeys do all that while riding a bicycle, too. We think the literary advantages of that should be obvious, but if they’re not, check out the site and see for yourself.

American Comedy Network
When he is not torturing the English language in print, Big Jewel editor Kurt Luchs is torturing the nation’s ears and eyes through his day job as General Manager of the American Comedy Network, a provider of comedy to radio stations and other venues in desperate need of it. The ACN site includes free MP3s and Flash animations of song parodies, fake commercials and other bits so that you can torture your friends and family with email attachments that will cause their PCs to crash. Make Kurt proud and do it today!

Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli
The full title of the book by Big Jewel editor Kurt Luchs is "Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: A Wiseguy's Guide to the Workplace." It's basically a collection of funny quotes from gangster movies, with commentary from Kurt tying them into best business practices. The book was published by Barnes & Noble in 2003 and was so popular that it's already out of print! However, used copies can be found right now at their web site -- which is exactly where this link takes you.

Ed Page's Danger Blog!
Big Jewel copyeditor and contributor Ed Page has a zillion friends and acquaintances even stranger and funnier than he is, and he keeps tabs on them all with his wonderfully entertaining and informative blog. If you care about written humor or culture in general, you'll want to bookmark this one.

Not Fooling Anybody
You know that old Pizza Hut in your neighbourhood that somebody tried to turn into a Pita Hut without anybody noticing? These guys noticed.

Created In Darkness By Troubled Americans
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's, Humor Category is the first-ever anthology from a literary web site we greatly admire, McSweeneys.net. This collection was edited by Dave Eggers and his slave units, and contains oddly disturbing contributions from many of the country's best humor writers -- oh, yeah, and also one piece by that pathetic loser, our own Kurt Luchs ("The Spirit Of Christmas"). The book lists at $16.95 from its publisher, Knopf, but you can order it now for 30% off at Amazon.com by following this link.

May Contain Nuts: A Very Loose Canon Of American Humor
May Contain Nuts: A Very Loose Canon Of American Humor is the third volume in the popular humor anthology series Mirth Of A Nation, edited by the lovely and talented Michael J. Rosen. The collection includes contributions by not one, but three of The Big Jewel's editors -- Kurt Luchs, Neil Pasricha and Ed Page -- as well as funny pieces from P.J. O'Rourke, Mark O'Donnell, Phil Austin (of Firesign Theatre) and many, many others. It was published by HarperCollins in September 2004, and in honor of the occasion, we made it "May Contain Nuts Month" at The Big Jewel, with five previously unserialized excerpts appearing on our site (and still here in the archives). You can still whet your appetite for literary laughter and help support the great cause of American humor by ordering the book for 30% off the $15.95 list price at Amazon.com with this link.

Stories Archives on The Morning News
These folks do some great things with humor. Sit back and admire their taut page. It's so taut it's ridiculous.

Pindeldyboz
Like Monkeybicycle, Pindeldyboz seeks to combine the fun literature of the McSweeney's web page with the serious literature of the McSweeney's quarterly print magazine. And it succeeds...while finding its own quirky voice that is neither McSweeney's-like nor Monkeybicycle-like, but strangely and beautifully, Pindeldyboz-like. In fact, it's so much like Pindeldyboz, it actually IS Pindeldyboz!

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