As the US Election hots up and Super Tuesday approaches, the presidential hopefuls want to Super size their vote.

According to one satirical website Election 2008 will see many Americans voting not with their feet, but with their stomachs. With an expanding demographic of overweight voters, candidates are stopping in cities to impress bulkier citizens by showing how they love gorging too.

True to his name John McCain has showed a preference for the chips. Rudi Guiliani has been chomping hot dogs at every opportunity, while Hillary Clinton has promised free ice cream to democratic voters. Meanwhile Barrack Obama has been wolfing pies in the mid-west to secure the pie wagon vote.

Dieticians predict all of the candidates will put on 30 to 40 pounds by Novemeber - putting them in line with the average American voter.

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Previously weve brought you the online beggar, a guy who uses the web as one big paper cup. Now we bring you his soul brother, The Rich Jerk.

The Rich Jerk, the proprioter of an online site which claims to be able to make you a multi millionaire. The Rich Jerk sells you a website domain that if managed properly will have the lucre flowing like lava.

And hes got plenty of attitude. He feels about self help what Tom Cruise feels about psychiatry, dissmissing all the gurus and motivational fads out there.

We cant vouch for his validity, but the Rich Jerk seems to tell it straight. Its worth giving his methods a shot, and if they work, we'll be sure to let you know ... from our beach house in Hawaii.

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From make overs shows to the X Factor its clear that lots of people fantasize about being someone else for a day.

For most of us thats a pipe dream but not so for Frank Caliendo, who is fast becoming one of Americas top impressionists and star of todays online site. He's the toast of the Letterman show where his brilliantly accurate impressions of celebrities bring the house down.

Check out his takes on Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino and Sean Connery.

While his impersonation of Dubya seems even more realistic than the real thing...perhaps not as hard as it sounds.

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Scourge of Broadway, worshipped by Egyptians, nemesis of mice....lets here it for cats. Todays online celebrates the next evolution in the moggy kindom: the Cat Cam

The internet loves cats. Plug funny cats in to Youtube and you’ll still be there a week later poring through the results. There are a mind boggling array of cute kitty photo blogs and websites - none of which seem to feature any images of cats systematically transforming bin bag into plastic sieves or using the sofa as an improvised nail bar.

But seemingly even this isn’t enough. Not content with just admiring cats in all their cute dimensions German Jeurgen Perthold was consumed by curiousity - “I thought about our cat who is the whole day out, returning sometimes hungry sometimes not, sometimes he stay also the night out”. And so, the cat daddy came up with a solution – “This brought me to the idea to equip the cat with a camera.”

And so was born Mr Lee Cat Cam – a home made custom built cat camera which hangs around Mr Lee’s neck beaming back images and giving a cats eye view of his daily meanderings. The results are available online. Aside from offering a snapshot of what the world might look like if you conveyed yourself around on the flat of your stomach are pretty uninteresting.

But that’s not to say that the cat cam isn’t in demand. On the Mr Lee Cat Cam website Jeurgen has started selling Cat snappers and even outlines intricate instructions for building your own.

You may snigger but according to Jeurgen “the cat Mr. Lee is going to get the most famous cat of the world”. The cat who snaps may well be popular, but as for the “most famous cat of the world”.

Well, I think Garfield might have a thing or two to say about that.

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Times may change, television may become digital, but the quiz show will live forever...

Sadly such formats cant always be the arena for genius that they would like to be. Today's website celebrates the dumbest ever answers on TV game shows.

Come on down, the lady who named the most common rodent as a Saxophone, or the guy who thought that the civilization that conquered Britain were “the Apes”

Needless to say we Irish are not immune. Hands up if you remember the 1970's gameshow “Quicksilver”. When one contestant was asked for Gandhi's first name she replied “Goosey Goosey”. Another reasoned that the Capital of France was F. And when one radio contestant was asked for the name of a bird with a long neck, his reply: Naomi Campbell.

Although technically correct that kind of answer would never bag you the anniversary clock or the coveted star prize - a lightweight electric blanket...

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At this time of year, diets are the big fad. "Watch what you eat" becomes the mantra of the masses. But not for the man who literally ate an aeroplane....

Meet Michael Lotito. Thanks to his abnormally thick stomach lining he can eat metal and glass. His biggest meal to date is a Cessna 150 airplane. He's just one of the worlds weirdest records and today's featured site..

Japan is the home of the world fastest strip down – a man who can take all his clothes off in 7 seconds.

American Hetti Green has the dubious distinction of being the worlds stingiest person. She refused to wash so as to save on costly hot water, and let her son have his leg amputated rather than pay medical fees.

There's a sofa that travels at 87 mph, a man with an 11 foot moustache and a 900lb bagel. But for sheer lunacy, what can beat the guy who can lift 24lb of steel weights – with his tongue.

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If your fed up with your job then check out today's website which lists the real worst jobs in the world.

You could become a Flatulence analyst. Scientists are looking for assistants that will tolerate the gases emitted by subjects who have consumed half their weight in beans for intestinal research.

Or you could become a sensory Deprivation Research Subject. Locked into a small room with nothing in it for days on end, you won’t hear, feel or see anything, and eventually the hallucinations take over.
No? Then how about an Indian princess in waiting. You fan and feed grapes to the young princess all day, but if she gets married and her husband dies young, both you and your boss are sent to the funeral pyre so you may continue to serve him in the afterlife.
What was that job with the flatulence again?

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The internet is an ongoing battleground for techy chancers trying to make a quick buck. You cant go online for more than a minute without being confronted by some hair brained gimmick designed to lighten your wallet.

No so the host of today's site. With admirable honesty this custodian of thriftiness proclaims himself the worlds first online beggar. Describing himself as an honest Joe Soap who's tired of the rat race, this cyber bum want you to give him one dollar towards his early retirement fund You wont get anything in return, just his gratitude and a list of things he intends to do when he retires. It may sound bonkers, but with over 600,000 visits to his site he has already accumulated almost 76,000 dollars, and already he's planning on what to do with his first million.

Who said the dot com bubble had burst?

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If your new years resolution involves the search for love, one Irish broadband operator is offering some help in finding that special someone.

The Perfect Girlfriend in a Box is every sane mans dream. Log-on to her homepage, “push her button” and watch the perfect girlfriend muse out loud. Choice orations include "I love ironing", "ill run you a bath and cook something nice for you afterwards", "pizza and football? Sounds great!".

Those who find the idea of a girlfriend in a box demeaning could opt for the equally dishy Boyfriend in a Box, who comes packaged with his own vacuum cleaner, and some choice phrases of his own, such as "I'm a qualified masseur", "lets go shoe shopping" and "you go out with the girls, and ill retile the bathroom".

If only life were so easy....

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Today's site is the Irish UFO society, cataloguing close encounters of the Celtic kind.

Like when a brightly coloured orb reputedly crashed in the Mountains near Boyle in Roscommon in 1997. Days later, black cars with tinted windows were reported nearby, while helicopters hovered overhead. To this day local authorities deny any knowledge of such events.

A Government dossier on UFO's was recently released under the Freedom of Information Act. It reports several UFO sightings, from hovering spacecraft in Tipperary to strange lights in the skies over Donegal.

There's no mention of Alien abductions, symptoms of which include disorientation, loss of memory strange marks on the body and severe headaches. Is it just us, or do Irish alien abductions sound remarkably like the morning after a wedding?

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From Led Zeppelin to the Spice Girls it seems that comebacks are all the rage lately. Now everyone's favourite ginger haired box puppet from the 1980's is hitting the well trampled comeback trail. That's right, Bosco is Back...

Today's site offers you the chance to send an egreeting via the rosy cheeked one from Montrose. Simply log on, upload your details, choose your message, and click send. Your friends and family will be regailed by an icon of eighties childhood.

It's hard to say if Bosco's comeback will produce the same hysteria that surrounded Led Zeppelin or The Police, but for those of us of a certain age, he is a welcome addition to the endless line of celebs from the decade that taste forget getting back in the entertainment saddle.

Now how about bringing back Basil Brush?

On second thoughts....maybe not.

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How many New Years Resolutions have already gone by the wayside. Two weeks in and you’re turning your back on the treadmill…

Well, according to the homepage of a certain Dr Carol Webster the failure to plan is a plan to fail and if you want to get this years resolution back on track you need some help. Her homepage has a motivational guide to maintaining your resolutions by firstly identifying your discontent , then anticipating obstacles, setting goals that fulfil you and lastly expecting success.

So tracksuit on, and chin up folks, with the eminent Dr Carol AKA Mrs Motivator by your side who knows maybe you might just be able to keep up your resolutions…..for at least another two weeks…

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In todays hyper health conscious society most people know that fad diets are a short term solution to a long term problem.

Rather than demonizing the idea this website celebrates their silliness. There’s info on everything from the grapefruit to the chocolate diet, the one good meal diet to the 7 day all you can eat………

The chicken soup diet suggests you eat nothing but chicken soup all day every day, likewise with the cabbage soup diet. But, the quickest route to a thinner has got to be the Amputation Diet - with the following instructions:

Clip finger and toenails.
Get a haircut.
Shave all your body hair.
Take a laxative (also works at clearing unwanted guests).
And finally for maximum effect - amputate an arm and a leg……

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