We all have days where things simply aren't clicking in the looks department: a nickel-sized whitehead, bags under our eyes larger than most airlines allow for carry-on, or the classic "bad hair day" of impossibly resilient follicular foibles. However, the next time you wake up looking like Keith Richards, forgo purging your puss or slaying that pesky cowlick and check out www.uglypeople.com.

Not surprisingly, this site features the largest concentration of ugly people this side of Lyle Lovett's family reunion. The basic gallery is separated into three sections: "Ugly Men," "Ugly Women," and "Ugly?" (the latter being a gallery of folks of indeterminate gender, but not in that sexy Prada ad way). Some of these people are naturally and inarguably hard on the eyes, while others incorporate moustaches, mesh hats, bad makeup, and other unfortunate accoutrements to push them over the edge.

After combing the galleries for a while, it becomes clear that certain attributes are recurring among the ugly masses: unfortunate bone structure, bad skin, less than ten teeth, and a tendency to wear pastel turtlenecks. Of course, there are also many textbook mullets; these repetitive show-lows (short in front, long in back) quickly become tiresome, but one man manages to transcend his ugly peers by having a mullet and Vanilla Ice pompadour at the same time.

The site also includes a section of ugly celebrities that offers few surprises. We don't really need a Web site to tell us that Michael Jackson looks like a particularly upsetting Edward Gorey creation. Additionally, it is no surprise that when the midget from The Howard Stern Show dresses up in a pink rabbit costume and thick glasses, he doesn't exactly look like a runway model. The only surprise here is the questionable inclusion of Yoda, who I always thought looked rather dignified, his myriad green wrinkles more endearing than repulsive.

Far more useful is the feature that allows visitors to nominate people for the site. After discovering this service, I had my mother ship me a bunch of shots of a particularly evil (and un-photogenic) ex-girlfriend "so I can show them to my uncle." Though the site claims to be "for entertainment purposes only," it is also a fresh way to enact revenge and to do wonders for one's self-esteem. As bad as my hair may look some days, rest assured that I'd never pose a serious challenge to the impressive array of "uglies" on this site.