Great article by Jennifer Nittoso

All, so very true!!!!

Alas, alack, Alanis … we are coming to the end of my three-part series on the Best (insert list of garbage that pretty much only Jen cares about here) of the Decade. An end to my relentless soul vomiting upon the keyboard. An end to me tricking my editor into paying me for aforementioned vomit. (Editor’s note: See “Top TV Shows” and “Top Inventions” at www.whatsuppub.com for more highly readable upchuck.)

And so our terminal stop on this emotional train originating at station derangement is … the Interweb. I present to you now, (drum roll please) “The Best Websites of the New Millenium” (yeah, yeah I know…some of them were founded in the late ’90s, but they were awesome in the 2000s, so BEAT IT) … as decided by me and my new friends at the asylum.

WebMD
What is this itchy, red, puss-filled spot on my forearm? Why does it burn when I pee? Can you get eyeball cancer? Is there a donor registry for brain transplants? Is smoking crack beneficial for expectant mothers and/or wives of fading R&B singers? These answers and soooooo many more can be found on WebMD. It’s also every doctor’s nightmare and every hypochondriac’s pot of gold. webmd.com

The Smoking Gun
The Smoking Gun has continued to provide never-ending hilarity with its postings of interminable court documents and horrendous celebrity mug shots lo these many years. Anyone spend more time than they care to admit reading about Bill O’Reilly and a loofah? Yeah. Me neither. thesmokinggun.com

Urban Dictionary
Urban Dictionary makes me laugh right off the bat with its hipster word of the day on the homepage. Behold, a recent word: YouTubeloop – when you go to watch a quick 30-second video on YouTube and regain consciousness hours later having jumped from interesting video to interesting video. Clarence: “Dude, you totally missed the funeral yesterday!!” T-dawg: “Yeah I know; somebody emailed me a funny clip and I got stuck in a YouTube loop...” (I often find the “use in a sentence” part even funnier than the actual definition.) Besides being an excellent site to which you may send your mom when she asks you to explain “Dirty Sanchez,” it’s also a fantastic passive-aggressive way to get even with your boss/ex/unreasonable editor who imposes absurd deadlines on you. Just use their first name in some foul definition, put it on Urban Dictionary, and sit back and maniacally laugh to yourself. urbandictionary.com

YouTube
Speaking of YouTube, here is an entry on this list that really needs no justification. Whether it’s watching the Boom Goes the Dynamite Guy or Miss “U.S. Americans don’t have maps in the Iraq and everywhere the like such as” Teen USA, YouTube has made the term “viral” mean a lot more than that case of the herp that just won’t quit. Watch that awesome clip from “Idol” last night that you missed. Watch my dog Hannah assault her new Mr. Bill doll. Watch some guy ski down a hill naked on a toilet. I feel a YouTubeLoop coming on. youtube.com

Dating sites
And speaking of the herp … next up: eHarmony and Match. Also winners in the “worst websites ever invented” category. Yeah, I’ve been on both. The result: a mess of dating experiences so insane that I will be in therapy indefinitely. In one case (a.k.a. “The Frankendate Incident”) I actually threw myself down a flight of stairs to make the date end. I’m not kidding. eharmony.com, match.com

Netflix
Could also be named “SuckitBlockbuster.com.” DVDs delivered directly to your door! Weeeeeeee! Paying $13.95 a month so the second season of “Rescue Me” can sit unwatched on my coffee table for weeks on end … weeeeeeee … uh, wait a second. netflix.com

People of Wal-Mart
When I feel bad about my life, I go to this site. It is my happy place.

peopleofwalmart.com

Wikipedia
What the hell did I do before Wikipedia? I think I went to the LIBRARY! THE HORROR!! Wikipedia was an offshoot of another project called Nupedia, an earlier (now defunct) project to produce a free online encyclopedia according to Wikipedia. According to Wikipedia, there are 3,156,227 articles in the English Wikipedia as of this month. If it’s on Wikipedia, it MUST be true … right? wikipedia.com



TMZ
TMZ, The Superficial and a thousand other websites like them churn out celebrity gossip at an alarming rate with rather loose constraints on intangible concepts like “accuracy,” “truth,” or “facts.” And we, the American public, cannot suck it down fast enough. I do hypothesize many of these sites would certainly go under if Britney Spears (arguably another best invention of the new millennium) did not exist. We’ve seen her:

• flash her hoo-hoo

• shave her head

• drink 1,000 Frapuccinos

• go to Taco Bell

• get fat

• get thin

• have babies

• let babies drive cars

• marry K-Fed

• dump K-Fed

• go out with some creepy stalkarazzi guy

Blah blah BLAH ad nauseum, ad infinitum. And obviously not just her. It’s quite sad the microscope under which we have put these poor, innocent celebrities. Like Mel “Sugartits” Gibson. He didn’t deserve all that attention. Anti-Semitism is totally cool, right? tmz.com

eBay
Sell your crap. Buy other people’s crap for cheap. Sweet! ebay.com

Amazon
Buy new crap! Read other people’s crappy reviews! Get super-saver shipping on your crap! Totally sweet! amazon.com

Craigslist
Try to give away your crap! Also, find hookers! Sweeeeeeeet! craiglist.org

Pandora
I’m a relative newcomer to this one, but it sure is neat-o. I hope it doesn’t hose us and start charging. For those of you unfamiliar, you go to the site, type in an artist, and the magical elves who live in the Pandora site find other songs that are kinda sorta like the artist you typed in. And then the elves play that song for you. And some others. For free! Without spamming your computer with porn and viruses that melt your hardrive! (Yeah, I’m lookin’ at you, Limewire.) Pandora.com

Facebook
And finally, because 14 is a nice round number on which to end, we finish with the website that has sucked away more hours of my life than the constant “Law & Order: SVU” marathons on USA and seven seasons of “American Idol” combined … and multiplied by a thousand. Facebook. Oh, Facecrack. I both love and loathe you. I can’t even remember my life before you. You pwn me. You. Complete me. I’m friends with my fourth grade teacher on Facebook. And with a bunch of people from high school who never gave me the time of day. (What self-esteem issues?) I see pictures of their spawn. I post pictures of my dogs that I take on my camera phone after drinking wine and taking Ambien. I stalk. I am stalked. I post ex-boyfriend’s friendly “oh I saw your pic and thought I’d ‘friend’ you” e-mails as my status updates so my friends can mock them. I make plans. I break plans. I watch my friends wage e-war on each other through thinly veiled threats in their status updates. I play bejeweled. I get updates from “House” and “Lost” and Kathy Griffin.

And I put these articles on my Facebook page.

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