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Top 5 New Sites of 2008
2008 has been a stagnant year for Internet browsing. I’ve pretty much kept to my old favorites, never straying far from the well-trodden path of news sites, Tom’s hardware, Kotaku, xkcd, etc etc. But amidst the stagnation there have been a few golden nuggets; a few new websites that I have discovered. Not many, mind you – I had to struggle to come up with a top 5 list that anyone would find interesting. Some of the sites I have discovered in 2008 have been sites that everyone else has used and forgotten all about already, such as Facebook and StumbleUpon. I won’t even bother mentioning those; I don’t want to appear a totally inbred and pathetic loser.
Well then… Without further ado, here is the Cynical Stuff list of:
Top 5 New Sites of 2008
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5: The Minus World
This humor site is filled with irreverent parodies and references to video games. I’m not a rabid fan but there are some brilliant pieces like the Grand Theft Auto IV Activity Book For Kids. Absolutely hilarious at its best; pretty meh at its worst. Definitely worth checking out regularily, though.
4: GameProducer.net
Juuso is an indie game developer/entrepreneur with an interesting blog and forums that I – unfortunately – haven’t spent much time in lately. I used to check both the blog and the forums regularly before my recent minor hiatus from the online world; I think it’s time to re-discover this newly discovered site soon.
3: Passive Aggressive Notes
What can I say? I’m a sucker for ridiculous humor pages filled with short, quick and funny things to check out. Notes with passive aggressive messages are funny – and a whole collection of them is even more so.
I’m not so good at writing these kinds of subtle notes, myself; the only time I’ve left a note in the laundry room, it was a death threat.
2: The Official King’s Bounty Forums
King’s Bounty is the best game of 2008, and there’s nothing you can say that can make me change my mind! Play the game, read the forums! Do it, now!
Finally… It’s time for number one… What could it be?! What could it be?!?!!
1: LOLCats
I don’t think there’s a single site I’ve spent so much time at in 2008 as LOLCats. I can’t help it – I adore the kitties, and I love the captions. Yes, still! This is a fad that’ll never grow old for me. I squeal like a little puppy when I see those adorable pics, and every day I hope and wish that there’ll be a new hedgehog or squirrel picture along with the normal kittens.
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Note that this is a list of sites that are new to me in 2008. I don’t care if you knew the webmaster when his site was still indie and hardcore back in 2005, before he got corrupted by fame. The term new is a pluralistic and highly relative concept after all, wouldn’t you agree?