Going up against Randy Constan's Peter Pan's Homepage in the "weird" category of this year's Webbys, Weird New Jersey didn't stand a chance. No matter how bizarre your content, it's tough to compete with photos of a late-forty-something bloke leaping about in a ragged-hemmed green tunic or posing longingly in front of a fireplace decked out like Gainsborough's Blue Boy.

Still, Weird New Jersey, the unusually meaty companion web site to the print publication of the same name, is unfailingly entertaining, even if you're not a resident of the much-maligned Garden State. Billed as "Your Travel Guide to New Jersey's Local Legends and Best-kept Secrets," Weird NJ is an ever-growing anthology of ghost stories, urban legends, tales of shadowy characters or unexplained phenomena, accompanied by other bits of generally, well, weird, Jerseyana. A good bit of the content here is reader-penned (with almost every piece accompanied by running commentary from subsequent readers who write in to dispute or verify the author's claims), and for that it's uniformly readable, which testifies to the editorial chops of co-helmsmen Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran. On the main page, a handy pull down menu allows readers to select from categories like "Only Go There at Night," "Roadside, Weirdside" and "Weird Animals," among others.

In the midst of all the content here, be sure and check out the interview with Jim Davidson, the co-creator of the now infamous Tube Bar Tapes, in which the teenaged Davidson, along with co-conspirator John Elmo, repeatedly crank called the owner of a Jersey City tavern asking for "Phil Mypockets", "Cole Cutz" and other "regulars" — a prank which — arguably, anyway — served as the inspiration for The Jerky Boys' escapades and which landed Davidson and Elmo a spot on the Howard Stern show.