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Of video embeds, lawyers and AJAX start pages

Link Submission Form Now Supports Video Embeds

• Embed codes automatically detected for YouTube and Google Video
• Go try it

Friends

• Registered users can now make friends with other users
• You'll automatically see on our homepage all the links that your friends have recently voted for - so you can easily keep track of what they're watching and what's making them laugh
• I'm everybody's friend ;)

Lawyer Joke Makes Reddit Frontpage

• This joke is as old as the hills and we were as shocked as we were pleased that it made the frontpage of Reddit
• Even Craig Newmark linked to it

Included on Pageflakes, Goowy, and Protopage

• We love AJAXified personalised start pages and have had a feed in the Netvibes ecosystem for a while. So we're very happy that our frontpage feed has been included as a default feed on Pageflakes, Goowy, Protopage (V3)
• Get our Netvibes feed here

Hurray! Currently 30,000 users from all over the place and going strong.

Thumbnails and Bookmarklet

You'll have noticed that we've finally gotten around to adding thumbnails to the site. We've also gotten round to producing a submissions bookmarklet so that you can add a button to your browser that makes sending funny links to the hamster a breeze.

Best of all, the link submission form (via the  bookmarklet and via the site) now previews all images on the page you are submitting and lets you choose one to use as a thumbnail.  Cool, eh?

Killer Captions - Speech Bubble App Mk II

We've just made some big improvements to the caption application.  You can now resize the speech bubbles - they resize automatically to the text you enter and you can alter the  width by dragging the handle on the right.

We've also automatically resizing the images you upload so that this stops happening and things look more like this.

Check out some early uses of the captioner here.

What's Up Chuck?

Chuck Norris does not laugh at Chuck Norris jokes. Chuck Norris reads them aloud on prime time TV.

The WAGs World Cup

Here's where  to find the real talent in the tournament (Warning. Pictures contain adult material and infantile humour). Captained by Victoria Beckham and synonoumous with slick set pieces like the Spending Spree and the Table Dance, England's Wives and Girlfriends are the team to beat.

Funny World Cup Anthems

'Don't Mention the World Cup' with John Cleese, 'Wunderbar Engerland' with cheesy graphics, and 'England is Jolly Dee' with...Neil and Christine Hamilton! These guys may not have the recording industry at their feet, but they are priceless.

World Cup Fever!

Watch the funniest soccer action right here. Includes Columbia's Goalscoring Goalie and England's Peter Crouch in Robokop.

Speech Bubble Generator

We've just released a very early version of our speech bubble generator.

You can currently use this tool to upload a photo and add speech and thought bubbles to it.

It's still quite rough and ready and we haven't made this available through the site yet. (Though if you save an image, it will automatically get submitted to the hamster. So email me if you want me to remove any doodlings. We don't have a sandbox area!)

Do let us know what you think and what you would like to see added to it

World Cup Countdown

Eat My Goal! Football action with Alan Partridge's excruciating 'World Cup Countdown'. Look and learn as Alan demonstrates how Not to commentate  on a goal.