Before the internet sucked, people used to make their own websites...no ads and no subscriptions - just for fun!

The INTERBONG is an independent library of intriguing links to lesser known sites or artists. This content below is not being "promoted" to you, nor generated by some corporation's algorithms trying to "build engagement" or "maximize revenues", but rather is a human-curated selection of websites that I really like.

Some of these are long gone from active hosting, but where possible the Wayback Machine link is still posted.

Everlasting Blort
This is really the bible of excellent oddities and intriguing links

The Practical Guide to Nothing in Particular
Canadian's best satire podcast and short audio skits

Ming the Merciless
Weird interactive world of awesomeness from the days of flash

Steve Armstrong
Excellent drawings of "mostly robots, monsters and aliens"

Dave Contra
Can we truly ever get enough of cynical dark humour comic strips? I think not.

Hats of Meat
A guide to the modern fashion of wearing raw meat on the head

The Outback Backpacker
A fascinating tale of travels to VERY rural Newfoundland

Cyriak
Animation like you've never seen before

Cockeyed
A true internet pioneer, Rob Cockerham explores all manners of measuring, pranking and building contraptions

Hans Hoogerbrugge - NAILS series
Dutch flash animation (the audio's kinda screwed tho)

Survival Research Labs
Would you like to see a machine that can hurl 2x4's 800ft at 200mph?

Glurt Stickers
Canada's greatest independent free mail-order stickery project

Citizen Freak
A huge collection of obscure Canadian music from the 1960s-80s

Gobler Toys
Thoughtful and delightful and bizarre children's toys

Half Bakery
Kinda drunk? Came up with a great thought? Post it here

Red Meat
A comic strip that is the exact opposite of Family Circus

Nathan Pyle
Aliens come to earth and examine the strange society of humankind (comic)

Employee 0000
One of the best stories of corporate slacking ever written

The Forbidden Toys
Another marvellous batch of extremely weird and demented kid's toys

Nicholas Gurewitch
Twisted comic strips for the cynical citizen

99 Percent Invisible
A podcast examining the architecture, patterns, trends and incentives that exist invisibly behind society

Bob Log Tour Diary
I don't even know how to describe this. He's got a song called Boob Scotch though.

Cowboy Boot Poetry Archive
Finally! Soon to be adapted to an 8hr Netflix mini-series

CBC WireTap show
Jonathan Goldstein hosts one of the best shows to ever come out of CBC Radio

Undercover reporter works as a prison guard
This is a long read, and very disturbing.

Excerpt from Cory Doctorow's Unauthorized Bread
From the man who coined "Enshittification", a story of the near future when even your toaster needs a subscription

Hola Amigos! The Onion's Jim Anchower archives
A young man's neverending quest for cheap cars, cheap beer and good times

The Beaverton
Canada's best satire news site

The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group
You will never look at bread bag clips the same way again!

The Arcata Police Log
"11:33 p.m. A busy man outside a Plaza bar balanced out his personal hydrology by peeing in the street while holding a beer. He somehow found time between moisture management mandates to bang on passing vehicles with a bat."