Awesome Websites

In honor of this Father’s Day, we present to you ManBabies.com: sure, the premise is simple to the point of stupid, but we dare you not to laugh at these father-son odd couples.

Today’s inane entertainment award goes to Hahahaha.fr; it’s essentially a laughtrack tied to your keyboard which, silly as it sounds, had us laughing too (especially with the spacebar).

Quirky.com doesn’t just let you buy things–it lets you build them, too; the social product development site lets users submit product ideas, vote on them and earn cash for their help.

Twitterers @BrianSolis and @Jess3 wrangle a nebular glob of Twitter-related apps into a galactic map with Twitterverse V0.9; they’re grouped by purpose into spiral arms.

iFixit’s Gadget Teardown is tantamount to gadget porn, not that we’re complaining; it allows users to contribute their own disassembly photos of everything from G1s to Nintendo DSis.

The 2009 Indy 500 Race Tracker is an infographic-lover’s way to watch races; it shows all 200 laps from start to finish, with cars shown in relation to their time behind/in front of the leader.

Seen at Google I/O, the Google Holodeck shows Street View at high speed; it gives viewers the illusion of motion, which is fun as long as the safety protocols don’t go offline.

It’s in private beta, but we’re chomping at the bit to try Spymaster: it’s a Twitter-based social game where you’ll purchase weapons on the black market and assassinate for hire.

Like a cinematic version of Where’s Waldo, The Cryptic Canvas challenges you to ID 50 movies from the past two decades using clues; it’s in celebration of Empire Online’s 20th birthday.

It’s Memorial Day in the US, so in honor of 5,700+ fallen servicemen and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, please visit Map the Fallen; it shows both their homes and places of passing.

Finally, a twitter tool with real “utility”: Adafruit Industries’ Tweet-a-Watt tweets your power usage using a Kill-A-Watt monitor and a wireless transmitter; build your own or buy a kit.

We’ve already blown a good half hour at Starring the Computer, with many more to come: the website’s goal is to catalog and identify every appearance of a computer in movies.

Texting while walking can be almost as dangerous as driving, but Phase2 Media’s Email N’ Walk uses your iPhone’s camera to project what’s in front while you message away.

A million voices cried out and were played in a loop: Star Wars Soundboard has dozens of squealing Jawas, growling Wookiees and whiny Lukes to mix at your mercy. Thanks, Thorir!

Tired of missing those one-day-only t-shirt sales? TeeMagnet.com is a godsend: it compiles tee-a-day sites and displays their current offerings along with the time remaining.

Yooouuutuuube may cause brain damage: it’ll take any YouTube video and play it in a 36×36 column with each video slightly out of sync; check out Numa Numa or Alice. Thanks, everyone!

Taken high above Manhattan locations such as Times Square and Central Park, this panoramic Aerial NYC Tour is both breathtaking and relaxing thanks to chill music by Solid Beats.

It has some stability issues, but we like how Stweet.com mashes up Twitter and Google Maps; it uses street views to lend even more of a voyeuristic quality to live tweets.

Living Sasquatch finally makes proper use of augmented reality by giving it the ability to grunt, out of control body hair and a nice dose of comedy–but no beer. Thanks, Beth!

Fresh from the Googleplex, Google News Timeline provides a calendar-style view of news; its best feature is the ability to add custom queries from other sources and blogs.

Terminate Yourself gives everyone the chance to turn themselves into a cyborg killing machine; we also found it to be surprisingly useful in explaining a lot about certain celebrities.

Double trouble from the folks at the Googleplex: Mobile Gmail and Mobile Web Calendar have been significantly revamped thanks to HTML5 functionality and UI tweaks.

Produced by Slate Magazine, Flutter is such an effective parody of Twitter we wouldn’t be surprised if it got venture capital; it introduces “nano-blogging,” which uses only 26 characters.