this tutorial says “you can make a webpage look incredibly annoying if you overuse this technique (and by overuse, I mean use at all)” but the abundance of examples means that it knows it’s lying!

Office
by Jaime Vives Piqueres
The average office

Roger, Gary and Bob
by Jean-Marie Haerens and Fabien Mosen

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so i watch alot of tv shows and movies online. probably way too much. i have some friends who have told me they want to watch too much tv and movies online as well. here is where i go for the goods….

http://quicksilverscreen.com – this site is pretty good overall. the forums are invaluable if you are trying to do something like watch the new harry potter movie the night it premieres.
http://www.tv-links.co.uk/ – one of the better sites for tv shows. they link to alot of tv shows that are uploaded on asian video sharing sites such as ouou, and tudou. This can sometimes mean slower download speeds, but much less content is removed due to copyright. these guys are very good at fixing dead links and keeping on top of new content. (this site is currently down, could be server problems or it might have finally been taken down)
http://www.videolemon.com – videolemon is sort of a movie links site search engine. it tends to link certain sites that have lots of dead links though.
http://www.movie6.net – just ok
http://www.openflv.com – this site allows users to make a playlist from multiple video sharing sites. the videos are then reskinned with the openflv player. this is a often a good place for tracking down older movies.
http://www.peekvid.com – this is a tv/movie links site. they were one of the first media links sites to try to have a commercial appeal. the design of this site bothers me so I only use it as a last resort.

Do not get discouraged with dead links… they are the name of the game these days. A year ago content might have stayed online for a month or two before being taken. Now its not unusual for things to be taken down within hours of being posted. when you can’t find something theres always bittorrent.