Important stuff

• The Tax-Payers Alliance - Keeping an eye on government waste and stupidity. Helping us all to avoid becoming the Taxed to Death!
• The US National Debt - Read it and weep!
• The UK National Debt - Not quite as big, but still growing and depressingly high
• Harvard Business School - Want to find out why governments make stupid decisions? Well it's not just because they are stupid (which they patently are), so it's worth finding out why - maybe if they had a brain, they would too
• Ctrl+Alt+Shift. - Cutting the crap.. Tackling issues like global poverty and injustice; It's your world, take control.
  

Other Forums and Blogs

• Nightmare train journeys - Where the Pains thing first started
• Work - we all hate it really, unless you are insane or a bit of a tosser
• Guido Fawkes's Blog - The place to go to dish up the dirt on our inglorious politicians
• Goldman Sachs (The Giant Vampire Squid) - See where your taxes are going at Gawker.com's Goldman Sachs Project 

Artwork

• DECREATE - Artist, illustrator and transforming robot jedi mountainboarder DAN WILSON
• BANKSY - Subversive spraymonkey eating himself ( see: The Graffiti Artist, Pains in Public )
  Ralph Steadman - The US Daddy of subversive politcal-cartooning and social comment...
• Gerald Scarfe - The British equivalent
• British Cartoon Archive - A library of socio-political toons from papers, mags and books
• The Political Cartoon Society - London-based Gallery, articles etc. Check for current exhibitions
• Comics UK - Loads of info, including a formal history of British 'cartoons', including the original Satirists, including Hogarth
  

Funny stuff

• Private Eye - The British Institution; real passionate reporting and funny as the funniest thing in funnyland. Loads to see here folks!
• Scunt.co.uk  - News, review, comment and analysis
• Cassette Boy vs The Bloody Apprentice - If you hate the Apprentice, you'll love this vid!
• MPs' Financial Gain Plotting - MPs' expenses scandal meets Trainspotting vid by Beaubodor
• The Urban Dictionary - New words for a new generation...who needs Dr Johnson?
• Frankie Boyle - Probably the most funniest man alive and apparently a great fan of Broken Britain 
• The Darwin Awards - Always stuff to amuse yourself here
• Dilbert - No introduction required
• The Oldie magazine - Private eye for 'grown-ups'- Terry Wogan reads it with delight apparently!