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www.theonion.com
No! This is not a site for cooking lessons, in case the name association makes your dream of kitchens. A Webby Award Winner for 1999 and 2000, theonion.com is a satirical online newspaper that specialises in spoofs and black humour. So go ahead! Catch up with the most wacky and wicked jokes for a quick shot of comic relief at work or while surfing at home.

www.fuckedcompany.com
This site is a source for collective recession news about Dotcom companies, be it bankruptcy, shutdown or retrenchment. Its concept is based on the classic dead pool game. But instead of betting for or against people, you bet on companies. Different levels of a company’s demise are rated and points are awarded based on the level of severity. Rules are provided for scoring.

www.satirewire.com
If you have got a few minutes to kill, this is the site for you. However chances are that your minutes may run into hours. The site pokes fun at the floundering new economy. It serves up an admixture of witty commentary and fictionalised stories that will have even the most hardened dotcom CEO rolling in the aisles. Don’t miss Mr Clickwell’s Worst Dressed Site List, a hilarious critique that dresses down popular websites for poor designing. Not to forget Sally Struthers’s plea for contribution, to save Dotcom companies.

www.modernhumorist.com
A site bound to tickle you to death! Satirising public figures amalgamated with loads of fictional humour seems to be its chief pre-occupation. Its smart, witty jokes cater satisfactorily to a wide market, ranging from college students to the working professionals. Restraint is placed on profane and demeaning jokes, which other sites lavishly indulge in.

www.nationallampoon.com
An over dose of whimsical humour, enough to drive you hysterical is what this site is about. Awesome flash animations and comedy strips to match your taste, makes it a most inevitable site.

Games

www.gmlb.com
Game Lab is an upcoming game developer company that believes in innovative audio-visual styles and narrative content, that isn’t normally found in video games. Its first funky, puzzle game stars the spaceman Blix. Using a techno soundtrack, the object of the game is to ricochet bouncing balls into a central cup by strategically placing bumpers on a playfield. Another new launch, Loop, is a single player game of catching multicoloured butterflies. All its single player and multi-player games can be also be played at www.shockwave.com.

www.sissyfight.com
Little girls who have experienced nasty bullying or nagging at school, cheer up! This is your chance to avenge yourself. A favourite even among grownups, the site offers a social multi player online game with a twisted since of humour. The object is to attack and mortify your enemy. Points are scored according to the rank of the girl you humiliate. The player with the highest number of points wins. Added features include Fight Honour Code-which dictates rules for the game and SissyFight Message Board, where you can gossip with other Sissyfighters elsewhere. Players can also create their own schoolgirl avatar with a name, face and hairstyle.

www.myvideogame.com
The site serves as an online journal for video games enthusiasts. It acknowledges that games are no longer mere pieces of entertainment, but over the years have established a culture of their own. Exploring the negative and positive impact of games, it invites people to share their views on games. Feature topics trigger a series of queries like do games portray women fairly? Whether games promote violence? And other thought-provoking questions coupled with replies. Also check out some of its fabulous online games.

www.3dgroove.com
A unique site that creates remarkably realistic 3 dimensional interactive games. Groove is a free downloadable Internet gaming platform that allows anyone to play 2D and 3D games regardless of any hardware, operating system or 3D accelerator card. Check out its all time favourite games- Tank wars, Real pool 3D, Death from Above and Alien X. Tank wars, a multi player game, gives you a genuine feeling of moving in 3dimension,as you clank your way through the street, looking for your enemy.

www.gamasutra.com
Here is an exclusive site, where professional game developers can turn for ideas and information in the field of online entertainment games. An enormous coverage of technical articles, daily industrial news and guidance offered for game development products and services are some of its merits. Its discussion board erects a beneficial common plateau, where industry leaders and experts share views and review new products. The embedded articles on cutting edge game development techniques in areas of graphics, audio designing and animation etc are quite a boost up.

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