Awesome Websites

Awesome People Hanging Out Together has star-studded pics and vids, some of them expected – Dylan and Cash – and others hilariously random. Col. Sanders and Alice Cooper ftw!

The Google map of Liberty City at fan site GTA4Net is already impressive, but their recent addition is plain mind-blowing: a Street View – of a fictional city! – made from nearly 80,000 screenshots.

Game Boy Online lets you play Game Boy and Game Boy Color games online for free, no emulators needed. If you prefer NES or SNES games, check out GBO’s sister site Play Nintendo.

Google beats Apple to the punch with their cloud music service, letting you upload your tunes to the Internet, playing them from all your computers and Android-based gadgets. Request a beta invite here.

Don’t know what you’re looking for? Be sure to click the new “Random” link in our navigation for a 100% random post – selected by a room full of monkeys on typewriters.

You can rest assured you won’t be seeing videos of some random dude’s junk on CuteRoulette. The site is 100% full of ridiculously cute clips of animals being adorable. Nawwwwwww.

New website Parkopedia aims to be the Wikipedia of parking spaces. The crowdsourced site currently lists 15 million parking spaces across 14 countries, all searchable for free via a sleek interface.

Hipopotam Studios’ Pica Pic is a free online gallery and emulator of the handheld games that were a hit from the 80s to the early 90s. The look and graphics of the games are perfectly recreated.

A blog that shows how some movies, TV shows, or even moments in real life are better – or at least more fun to watch – when viewed in reverse. But there are exceptions of course.

MIT engineers Rick Borovoy and Brian Knep created this web app which automagically tiles images across multiple displays placed in close proximity to one-another. Play with the Beta here.

Ji Lee and friends created this addictive online trivia game, which challenges you to identify what movie various iconic props are from. You’ll quickly find that some are more obvious than others.

You’ll need a fast computer and a WebGL-compatible browser like Google Chrome or Firefox 4 beta to explore the exotic worlds of Fractal Lab, but the incredible visuals are worth it.

Drop by our Facebook fan page and join the conversation. Our Facebook page features bonus posts, feedback from The Awesomer team, and your chance to tell us what you think is awesome.

Know someone who ruins the punch line every time they tell a joke? Send them off to the Anti-Joke Chicken meme – this bird’s got no sense of humor or timing either but still manages to kill it.

Made by Jonathan Bittner, it estimates price per sq.ft. and divides your place into bedrooms and common areas. The effects of other parameters are based on surveys conducted by Bittner.

This nifty site lets you take your photographs and turn them into painterly masterpieces with a few simple strokes of your mouse. Once you’re done, you can share your creations with the world.

Think of this web timewaster as an animated choose-your-own-adventure. Throughout the short snippets, you get to select from two options, each resulting in crazy and unexpected outcomes.

The website’s title will draw you in, but you’ll stay for the pictures. The site is filled with unusual celebrity shots. Christopher Walken as a young, handsome man definitely counts as unusual to us.

We’re not sure what’s taken so long, but here it is. The Android Market finally gets a web store. It has a neat feature that will have iOS users green with envy: apps are automagically installed wirelessly.

This new website collects doodles, napkin sketches, scribbles and concept drawings from game developers. Some result in amazing games – like Cannabalt, while others never see the light of day.

We’ve been able to explore the Earth, our streets and even our bodies all for free, thanks to Google. Their most recent project lets us visit museums and view works of art with just a few clicks.

Guinness takes its world records more seriously, but the URDB catalogs every inane and stupid record attempt ever. Example: Most American Quarters Fit Inside A Belly Button. Really.

Not content with having a catch-all blog about “funny things”, Mike Lacher starts off the new year with a creepy meme. You wanna know what makes muppets cute? It’s the eyes. The goddamn eyes.