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Brunching Shuttlecocks
www.brunching.com
The humorous Web site titled “Brunching
Shuttlecocks” has absolutely nothing to do with the sport of
Badminton. Rather, it contains satirical commentary on popular
culture of the world today.
There seems to be little correlation between the title and the
content of the site, and the title truly seems to have just been a
random choice. With a simple layout, “Brunching
Shuttlecocks” surprisingly provides some not-so-simple
features on subjects ranging from utensils to the Olsen twins, Mary
Kate and Ashley.
One especially amusing feature is titled, “Everything I
need to know, I learned from my cat.” Instead of containing
the cutesy list that can be found in a similarly titled book at a
regular store, this rendition features knowledge mostly concerned
with the author’s cat’s tendency to consume his own
vomit.
The first bit of knowledge declares that vomit is the best food
known to this world, while the second promotes another favorite cat
pastime: “Sleeping all day sure is tiring work! But never let
that interfere with vomit-eating duties.”
Site goers can also interact with the site, through the Alanis
Lyric Generator. Here, by typing in a few answers to some questions
in a Mad Lib format, users can create their own depressing musical
lyrics.
Similar interactive features on the site, known as
“Toys,” deal with popular culture figures, including
the new president. Users can calculate the impact Bush’s tax
plan will have on them, as well as produce scandalous headlines
about the new president.
Providing truly random, yet definitely entertaining humor and
amusement, brunching.com can capture a Web user for hours on end,
until they remember they have a life.
Barbara McGuire Rating: 9
Seanbaby
www.seanbaby.com
The first thing that one notices about Seanbaby.com is Seanbaby
himself. The site owner has plastered his picture all over his
site, and it’s a picture that won’t soon be forgotten.
Constantly screaming into the camera, head bright with wild,
rainbow-colored hair, Seanbaby is enough to give anyone
nightmares.
With all this, viewers might not notice that Seanbaby.com is
more than just flash. Behind his flamboyant persona, an obvious
ploy for attention in the ever-crowded world of Internet humor
sites, Seanbaby is one of the funniest guys on the Web today. His
Web site contains enough random rants to keep a bored Web surfer
occupied for hours.
So what sort of things attract his attention? Seanbaby is a
product of the 1980s, and his site is a glorious homage to every
tidbit of nostalgic kitsch that decade ever produced: Mr. T, the
Superfriends and old Nintendo games are some of his favorite
targets.
Other features are more difficult to describe. In “Kick to
the Groin” comics, Seanbaby takes pictures out of old
self-defense instruction pamphlets, putting them into a different
order and adding commentary to create his own comic strips, all of
which tend to focus on the aforementioned action.
Plus there’s the Hostess Twinkies page, wherein he writes
blurbs for old Hostess ads taken out of comic books. This is just
plain weird, as he brings in special guest reviewers to add their
own two cents about the ads. These guest reviewers happen to be
more comic book heroes and villains ““ none other than
Spiderman’s foe Dr. Doom and a one-shot Aquaman villain named
Mr. Fish.
Seanbaby is one of those rare sites so odd that Web surfers
can’t help but like it.
Michael Rosen-Molina Rating: 7