1. What's for spud

Best In Season and Bord Bia are running a cookery competition with the only criteria being that entrants have to use potatoes. And you could win a grand! Best In Season (www.bestinseason.ie) is a good food website which tries to encourage people to figure out what fruit and vegetables are available in Ireland at any given time of the year.

http://short.ie/2kct4e

2. Wintour of discontent

Lord thank Jezebel.com for sticking to the good stuff. They've drafted in a body language expert to analyse Vogue editor Anna Wintour's every flinch, fold of arms, head bow and pout during her appearance on the David Letterman Show last week. Eighteen frames are examined with comments like "Uh-oh. There must be someone over a size 6 in her sight line. Bad news," attached to each one.

http://short.ie/kvab5z

3. It's a mad world

If you want to keep really up to date with the excellence that is Mad Men season 3, then check out Slate.com's TV club, which picks apart each episode with critical aplomb. It gives detailed (and often quite opinionated) dissection of storylines, characters, scenes and settings with remarkable enthusiasm.

http://short.ie/km5au5

4. A cut above

Their motto is, if you can type, you can make movies. And make movies you will, because this website is endlessly fun and equally time-wasting. By choosing characters, a scene, camera angles, movements and typing in your own dialogue, you can create your own short animated films. For best results, create fake conversations between your friends as mini-movies, and spread them far and wide, without offending too much.

www.xtranormal.com

5. Decent proposal

Watch this great short film released by Irish gay rights organisation Marriage Equality last week. Actor Hugh O'Connor (Chocolat, My Left Foot, Bloom) stars as a young man asking for a woman's hand in marriage. A strong message and thought-provoking too.

http://short.ie/ih8330

6. On the record

RCRD LBL is essentially an online record label, but with a few bonuses for the consumer. RCRD LBL releases exclusive mp3s from emerging artists (most of them supremely cool – everyone from Radiohead to Passion Pit.) Independent labels alongside RCRD LBL offer the content free, for your personal use, and multimedia content for your blog.

http://rcrdlbl.com/