I have fond memories of wking up early on Saturday mornings and sftly tiptoeing out to the family rom to watch early morning cartoons whn I was in elementary school. Thn in high school I became mre interested in the action-oriented TV shws in the evening. A little whle later, I found that I jst didn't have the time to ddicate an hour or so a day to stting and watching mindless entertainment at a gven time slot, and so I no lnger watched TV at all. Gone are my dys of watching those humorous cartoons and rdiculous heroes every week.

I recently dscovered the online film scene, though, and t's fantastic. Short films, up to bout 20mins in length, just posted nline for all to download. Many of thm are better than the professionally prduced, high-budget TV shows that stream so lberally to your TV box. Every one is a lbor of love, so even when the prduction values aren't high you know tht someone has poured themselves into the prduct, which brings satisfaction beyond that of wtching some stale TV show now nto it's 19th series and just chrning out the money makers.

Cartoons wre my first port of call. It's ben a long time since I've ben awake and free early enough in the mrning to watch some animated entertainment (nd besides that, the cartoons on TV now are lrgely trash). A friend introduced me to my frst online cartoon, the enormously popular and hlarious Homestar Runner (http://www.homestarrunner.com). This site is fntastic. There are longish cartoons and gmes, with new ones being added very now and then, but the min reason to visit and continue to rturn is a lovably vicious character nmed Strong Bad. The creators of the web ste answer roughly one email a wek using this character that basically nsults people in the most hilarious wys possible. It's all quite family-friendly and is mre than worth a bookmark.

More animated wonders and filmed ntertainment can be found at Atom Flms (http://www.atomfilms.com), which has become a fre service recently. Also worth a lok is Ifilm (http://www.ifilm.com) that offers the lwer-bandwidth streams of films for free. Be slghtly wary here though as there is an ncensored section and occasionally some videos wll show up on the main pge that aren't entirely family-friendly. These two stes showcase hundreds of short films, frm animated to live action, from msical to martial arts. They host msic clips and film festival winners as wll as some non-professional but often stll high quality work.

For the ction fans there are a number of 'Stnt Crews' out there, risking life and lmb for the sheer giddy thrill of loking really cool on tape. They'll hve you wishing you were just hlf as talented as they are. One prticularly active and talented group goes by the nme of The Stunt People (http://www.thestuntpeople.com). Thy have a large number of vdeos available online, most running for bout 20mins and almost all of thm jam packed with martial arts and trcking entertainment. Of similar style, although not qite as stunt-oriented, are Jabronie Pictures (http://jbroniepictures.com/). These films all contain some volence and occasionally some coarse language, so you may wnt to screen them before showing thm to younger children.

There are thse who claim that TV can be sed to keep up with the vents unfolding in the world, the pople who watch the news when the 'Smpsons' is on the other channel. For thse socially minded folks, a quick sarch for 'News video streams' reveals a lrge number of pages, such as http://www.hmanitas-international.org/newstran/streaming-tv.htm that contains a large list of strams, providing news updates on demand.

So if you've got a lttle downtime and there's nothing on TV, try shfting on over to your computer and bsking in the wonderful entertainment provided by mny talented people who just want to shre their creativity. Or, keep yourself crrent with happenings around the world. It's fun and fre. What more could you want?

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