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Jarmake.com recommends especially:

> UN's World Food Programme - WFP delivers food aid to about 70 million people a year. You may donate online with a credit card. Donating an equivalent of your one regular lunch will go a long way
> Kiva.org - Help somebody with a small loan. You have good chance getting the money back and at the same time helping a person

> Fiverr - Site where people can sell or buy small services or products for five US dollars
> The ugly bug ball - Dating service for the normal looking (=ugly) people. I wish this would be opened in Finland too
> Glastonbury Radio - Very mystical online radio
> Kvetch! - One of the most legendary complaining sites on the web
> Red Meat - The newest Red Meat comic strip
> Homestar Runner - Humor loaded Flash animation
> Adultswin - Professionally produced bizarre but funny tv or more precisely web series
> Funny or die - Short video clips from amateurs and professionals alike
> Time and date - Site has several time zone tools
> Stock.xchng - A lot of free to use pictures and graphics, only short registration required
> Nuclear Winter - Site tells a fictional story of a nuclear winter survivor

> DWOTD - Dutch word of the day
> City of Pori - Pori sucks ass
> City of Tampere - Tampere rules
> City of Helsinki - Helsinki is the necessary evil
> City of Vantaa - Vantaa is ... can we change subject?
> The Knowhere Guide (UK) - See what people say about different places in the UK across multiple topics
> Disinformation - News picks from which you can decide yourself where this world is going
> The Genealogical Society of Finland - Huge resource concerning Finnish immigration to different countries
> Seat Guru - Tells you which seat to reserve on which airline depending on the plane's model
> Battery University - This university's online courses will teach you all you need to know about batteries
> Superheating and microwave ovens - Be careful when cooking water in a microwave oven
> Meteoalarm - Combines weather warnings around Europe
> Currency converter - Good tool for converting currencies
> Wordreference.com - English <-> Italian, French, Spanish dictionaries and Spanish <-> Portuguese dictionary. Often presents a lot of different use cases for the word
> EU Product safety - European Commission's product recall and hazard notices (RAPEX) on EUROPA Portal
> US Product safety - US Consumer Product Saftey Comission's (CPSC) recalls and product safety news
> The Scandinavian Canals - Website presenting watrerway canals in Finland, Sweden and Norway. Most information is currently only in Swedish or Finnish

> Loituma! (Ievan polokka) - You thought Lordi was heavy? Check out this Finnish sensation taking over the web by storm!
> Kyltti.com - A famous Finnish traffic sign travels all around the world (site in Finnish, but you get the idea, just click on the country list)
> Weekly World News - Somehow I get the feeling that these news aren't always accurate
> The Non Expert: Ikea - Stuck in a certain level of Ikea adventure? No worries, here's a complete walkthrough!
> Something Awful - Internet makes you stupid
> Uncyclopedia - The content-free encyclopedia
> Garfield minus Garfield - What happens if only Jon is left in Garfield?
> AstrologySource.com - Daily horoscope
> Russell Grant horoscopes - Daily video horoscope
> RealityCarnival - Constantly updating flood of things weirder than reality
> Humans form alien perspective - Site describes how space aliens see us humans. Hmmm...
> Sucksbox - A place to voice the things you feel that suck right now
> The Oatmeal - Visual humour porridge
> David Thorne - Australian web satirist
> Twaggies - Tweets turned into cartoons
> I can has cheezburger? - Lolcats and Loldogs. LOL. :D
> Joes-ks - A cluttered lost and found box of funny pictures and texts

> Savate Club Helsinki - Where I have been beating the boxing bag into hospital condition (site only in Finnish)
> Zucchero - The hairy Italian rasp throat (official site)
> National Novel Writing Month - Each November people all over the world try to write their own 50 000 word story in a month's time
> Portti Science Fiction - The largest scifi magazine in Finland
> FAST - Finnish Association of Software Testing. Join the mailing list and you're in. Some irregular information sharing and events in English as well

> Douglas Coupland - Coupland's books are really supreme stuff, definitely worth reading! Judging from the homepage, the guy's talent doesn't stop there
> Carl Hiaasen - My fav crime novel writer whose humoristic crime stories are mostly set in Florida state
> House of Mirrors - Finnish AOR band in which a namesake of mine plays drums. And they really rock too
> Aki Riihilahti - World class footballer who also seems to have a good attitude off pitch as well
> Cranial Screwtop - This band grinds rockish punk and their sound grooves like an elk
> Dr. Brian May - The best guitar god in the world!
> J. Pekka Mäkelä - One of the top names in Finnish science fiction literature. Such a shame his books haven't been translated to other langauages, he'd be success
> The Accordion Guy - Joey deVilla is a veteran top blogger from Canada. This IT guy also plays accordion with an attitude.

> Damn Interesting! - Very mystical science
> Internet Traffic Report - Real-time information about the global internet traffic flow
> What is my IP? - If you need to know your IP-address and nothing else
> Spudart: Thoughts Blog - Blog of interesting thoughts
> Cyberculture - A definition of cyberculture and link resources on the subject
> Database answers - Here you can find a huge pile of database data models. No need to look elesewhere

> Short stories at the east of web - Huge amount of short stories available to read online
> The torn-up credit card application - A warning story about why you might want to buy a shredder
> Back to the future project - Interesting photography project where photos from few decades ago are re-shot with the same models. Contains some nudity so NSFW (Not Safe For Work)
> Tees On Tap (UK based) - Suprisingly funny T-shirts at suprisingly cheap price
> Busted Tees (US based) - Wearing the shirts from this store at a wrong time in a wrong place may get you beaten up
> T-Shirt Hell (US based) - Wearing the shirts from this store you get beaten up whether you're at a wrong time in a wrong place or not
> Cocoa Heaven - Chocolate candy review blog

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