Are you stuck for an idea for an authentic, original Halloween gift. Well, the internet thinks of everything and now there’s a site on the net that offers something very unique.

It is called corpses for sale and it does exactly what it says on the coffin. That’s right now you can buy your own cusotmized corpse with amazing attention to detail the head turns from side to side, the mouth opens, all the limbs move and the fingers can be bent into different positions.

You can choose from male corpses like Burnt Reynolds or Uncle Fester or there’s Aunt Matilda or Oldie Hawn in the female range

You’re probably too late to order for this Halloween and nobody wants a pretend dead body clogging up the lounge so you might want to pre order for next year
Entry level corpses start at about 500 euro but don’t worry if you can’t afford a whole corpse apparently you can just buy the head

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The witching season is a time for fancy dress, monkey nuts and things that go bang in the night.

Most people think they have to break the law to put ona fireworks display. Well, think again because the information superhighway has come to the rescue with a virtual fireworks site. That’s right, on site you can click in the night sky above one of many famous American locations and you get this…

Dim the house lights, turn up the speakers and experience Halloween from the comfort of your desktop. You won’t get imprisoned, there’s no chance of getting third degree burns although you could end up with a tired finger

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One website has all you need to do some spooky cooking. They have compiled a list of inventive halloween recipes or, as they call it hookery cookery.

Curried banana cauldron will provide at least one of your recommended five a day and if you want your main course garnished with something gruesome why not try Dracula’s bloodstained burgers.

Finally, the Sheeps Head and Barley Broth is a woolly fusion of turnip, carrots, parsley stewed with sheeps head and trotters – neither of which are readily available in high street supermarkets - so you might have to consider sourcing them from the black sheep market.

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Check out Not coming to a theater near you and their online resource of half decent horror movies specially compiled for the month that is in it.

Covering every ghoulish genre - from haunted houses, to serial killers to evil siblings, not to mention giant mutant goldfish, it has catalogued gruesome titles galore.

There’s “Curse of the Crying Woman” or “Bloodthirsty Butchers” or the standout title of the month “Grapes of Death”, a movie about blood thirsty, rampaging zombies who also fancy themselves as wine connoisseurs who know at least one thing about plonk that a “full bodied wine goes best with red meat”

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Your Mind Will Recoil in Horror. So says the website of the unspookily named Max and Courtney.

Their blog is a spine tingling look into the world of monster movie make-up. Using everything from egg boxes to tea strainers, these innovators will use any old crepe - to cut, glue and stick until they get the kind of look that nightmares are made of.

Y’know - that terrifying zombiefied look most frequently witnessed at closing time on the last day of freshers week. To you and me, this might sound like an insult

To Max and Courtney – proud purveyors of terror, repulsion and deformity it’s the highest compliment they could get

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Those of you wanting to indulge yourself in some truly spooky shenannigans, turn off the house lights, turn on the computer and log on to the great Irish Ghostwatch.

Ghostwatch came about as a result of the untimely demise of a girl called Helena Blunden who died tragically in an Irish mill in 1912. Reports of mysterious events following her death led to the the first Ghostwatch on Halloween 1988 when a group of ghost botherers gathered to do some spirit spotting.

Now, Ghostwatch has evolved into a fully fledged website complete with constant webcam surveillance allowing anyone to scout for ethereal apparitions. Lots of visitors have reported seeing doors opening and closing and hearing freaky footsteps and one peron was properly shocked when their screen started flashing bright colours. Although that’s not spooky, that’s just a screen saver.

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Now with the help of a courageous band of online whistleblowers the shocking truth is finally out. Bosco is evil incarnate.

Prone to outbursts of sadistic violence, and with an unparalleled appetite for world domination, Bosco has been unmasked as a power hungry puppet who is “red of hair and black of heart.”

Visit this site to find out about his evil plans to conquer the world using magic door technology, shudder at his nefarious efforts to brainwash the children of Ireland.

Apparently, ever since Bosco came off the box, he’s gone out of his box. And with the unhinged flame haired fiend unleashed surely no on is safe - especially when he’s aided and abetted by his ginger winger brother who, this site reveals is none other than Mick Hucknall. Ufasach.

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Now in the land of the free and the home of the downright crazy, you can get great online deals for the ultimate in self improvement.

It could only happen in America but now anyone looking for a nip and a tuck can post their requirements on one site and let doctors compete for the gig.

Want a tummy tuck? How about a visit from a consummate professional at a knockdown price? Need a new face?. Then why not try that guy who just posted his details from his castle in Eastern Europe?

It’s the ultimate in freedom of choice for the American consumer. But remember, “buyer beware”, cheap plastic surgery is like a box of chocolates - because you just never know what you might get.

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Looking for some unique advertising space? Why not try Rent my Chest,

It's a website adorned with the torso of a mini-mogul who’s decided that becoming a human billboard is the easiest way to make money.

Choose your message or slogan which to be stencilled onto Chris Porillo’s upper body - book ended by his perfectly formed nipples, your message is sure to be seen.

And, imagine the possibilities if this catches on, with people all over cyberspace using parts of their anatomy to advertise everything from used cars to foreign holidays. Rent my leg, rent my forehead, rent my nose, even rent my right buttock provided by the particularly dextrous entrepreneur.

It’s an interesting idea but nothing new, Rent My Chest was pioneered many years ago by an even shrewder english entrepreneur called Jordan

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Previously the preserve of the pensioner posse, knitting has been taken out of the nursing home and onto the streets by a bunch of online stitch swizzlers..

Not for them, the two tone sleeveless sweater, the bobble hat or the fingerless woolly glove.

Calling themselves sonofastitch, loopdogg, the notorious NIT and P knitty, these needle wielders are re-inventing knitting as an art form – and bombing inner citys with vibrant, stitched works of art, wrapped around everything from beer bottles to public monuments and telephone poles.

It’s a quirky idea but like Eminem and potholing or Pat Kenny and rap battling, knitting and trendy just don’t go together and these nimble knitter escapades are hard to take too seriously. In fact, it all sounds like a bit of a yarn.

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Recently re-launched one site is attracting unprecedented demand from men who appear unlucky in love..

Inmates for you is a site touting outgoing inmates who are in search of friends, pen pals, and even that love of their life. Why wait ? the site implores, these ladies are waiting to hear from you now.

Surely true love will run it’s course undeterred by a mesh of reinforced bulletproof glass and the fact that standard issue prison overalls don’t come in “sexy”.

Remember though, if an inmate is for you do be practical - check the vital statistics - age, star sign, location and most important of all - expected release date.

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Budget airlines have encouraged Irish globetrotters, but delays and cancellations are often part of the package.

Now, one website has some great advice for the stranded flyer - with the ultimate guide to sleeping in airports

The site has thousands of submitted reviews of airports all over the world assessed according to suitability for short term sleeping. If you follow this guide you should avoid sleeping in Cork airport, cos the seats are hard as rock. In Shannon the benches in front of the gift shop are really comfortable and the air conditioning is perfect. But anyone needing a pre cruise snooze in Dublin airport should search out one of the luxurious padded benches with no armrests, apparently located to the side of the escalator.

For the thrifty traveller the right airport can be just as good as a hotel, providing they don’t mind showering in the bathroom sink…

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A sleeper hit movie involving a steamy love triangle, lies and betrayal which has quickly garnered massive cult online status..

Why ? Primarily on account of it’s so-bad-it’s-good-greatness. Yep, the film is packing out multiplexes with people flocking to see this cinematic car crash…

A screenplay that seems to have been tapped out by a monkey, acting so wooden it would make your garden shed envious, and accents from a land no-ones ever heard of…

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He is Michael Knight aka Baywatch's Mitch Buchannon aka David Hasselhoff aka The Hoff - the man who was once named Most Watched TV Star by the Guinness Book of Records now has his own web homage

The game called Wax Hoff does exactly what it says on the tin.

From the sounds of things Mr Hassellhoff is either a sucker for punishment or gets a perverse pleasure out of having his chest wig diminished. It’s the closest most of us can hope to get to the Hoff and and a great way of giving this clean cut star a clean shave…

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If something can go wrong it will. So says the simplest version of Murphys Law originally coined by Edward A Murphy back in 1978.

You may not know it, but there’s also lots of other Murphys Laws which have been added and this site has kept track of them. For instance, Murphys Love Law states "
When a man's wife learns to understand him, she usually stops listening to him". Tthe lotto law says "if you match 4 numbers you will lose your ticket" and there’s a multitude of other Murphy Laws covering everything from Mothers to Fire Brigades to Photography.

Best of all is this one found in the Murphys Laws Of commerce section…."If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. Well there’s no sense in being a damn fool about it."

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Concern about lawsuits has created a panic pandemic amongst advertister..leading to the rise of the silly warning label..

They’re so prevalent that one website has set up a special awards showcase now in it’s 8th year.

You can never be too careful but which bright spark thought it necessary to include the instruction remove baby before folding on a pram. There’s the iron which comes with the advice never iron clothes while they are being worn. Or the laser printer cartride which advises do not eat toner. And some marketing drone thought it worthwhile mentioning that you do not allow children play in the dishwasher. There’s pepper spray which may irritate eyes, or the cd rack that’s not to be used as a ladder……the list goes on…..

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Al Gore has redeemed himself politically with his barnstorming power-pointing global-messaging blockbusting-movie An Inconvenient Truth... but he's not the only one who thinks the world is in crisis...

Some quarters of the internet are in agreement. One site outlines over 4000 reasons why civilisation is doomed - ranging from serious to seriously off the wall.

Reason 207 blames the world's failure to reverse global warming, whereas reason 244 blames people who wear socks and sandals. Reason 138 blames the conformity and apathy of todays youth, but reason 1555 blames Big Brother.

Climate crisis, global meltdown - they could be geographical blips. But the greatest indication that we're all on the express to extinction, that the human race is regressing - reason number one: The very existence of Paris Hilton.

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Babies, what's not to love. But when it comes to putting a name to the face it can be quite contentious. One parent likes Fiona the other likes Frogmella.

The Internet can give you an objective steer, thanks to a baby-naming site with over 11,000 suggested names, their origins and their meanings plus some newborn naming tips.

Remember, d babies grow up, so Bunny might seem like an irresistibly cute moniker at the time - but this could work against your sibling's attempts to become a barrister 30 years later.

Also, consider the relevance of the original meaning. Ozzy means God's Divine Power, Beyonce means beyond others and Bono means all good. Actually that could be a typo - maybe that should say all God...

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One Irish website has made it their mandate to beat the clampers... no, not literally!

That would be lots of fun, but technically illegal. Instead, it's a forum for joe public to air their views about these triangular steel wheels.

Their email petition has attracted over 2700 people making the case for and against the clamper crusade. Judging by this evidence, there's plenty of people perturbed - maybe even enough to force the political agenda.

Electioneering about health reform and tax cuts is starting to sound like old hat. The truly progressive politician could consider an anti-clamp campaign where the practice is banned and all clampers are redeployed as personal chaffeurs so nobody need ever park again.

Now that would be just the ticket.

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In this part of the world Noggin is a word you might associate with Sally, or the thing between your ears - but on the world wide web it's something completely different.

"Welcome To Noggin". Yes, indeed welcome to a world made for pre school toddlers and filled with zany edutainment and zippy characters like "Wonderpants" "the Backyardigans" and "Pinky dinky doo".

Say hallo to a series of inventive shows, games and songs designed to keep the gurgling offspring bang up to date on the issues that matter like learning to read, birthday songs and dinosaurs..

It's an endless kids resource and an indication of what we missed out on growing up when our pre-school training came courtesy of a shaggy dog with a strictly limited vocabulary... "Scoobeedoobeedoo"...

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Here's a web cartoon telling the story of a pint sized American politician... "I'm Lil Bush, resident of the United States" and his precocious pals Lil Condi, Lil Rummy and Lil Cheney.

In episode 1, George Junior celebrates a day of national significance: "It's hot dog day - nothing more American than eating a hot dog - except maybe eating an apple pie with a hot dog in it", but the school chef has other ideas... "today we're having falafel from the Middle East".

Mini-George is not impressed, and together with his classroom cabinet, rebels. "This will not stand, c'mon Lil Rummy - it's unAmerican."

Until, just like the real president, by hook or by crook the resident of the United States always gets what he wants... from now on, every day will be hot dog day".

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