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The Favorite Website Awards

Posted: Monday, December 17, 2007 10:48 AM by Will Femia

I'm participating in the selection of this year's Favorite Website Awards.  I got a note this morning that in the first round of judging I'm to choose three from a list of 12. I was a judge several years ago in the early days of The Weblog Awards and it was an utter pain in the butt because it required looking through literally hundreds of blogs. This way is not only fairer but it gives the bloggers a fair shake at being looked at relatively closely.

These are the 12 I have to choose from by early January. It's kind of an apples and oranges list; looks like a bunch of commercial ones. Let me know in the comments here which ones you like. Or, if you want to participate in a more official capacity, the awards also have a People's Choice vote.

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Good Things Should Never End   This site has no other purpose than to entertain.  Can be compared to popping bubble wrap.  Should be best of favorite sites

Chuck, Kingman, AZ (Sent Monday, December 17, 2007 12:12 PM)

Once I figured out Good Things Never End trick of looping content, it lost a lot of its luster for me.  I really like the Get the Glass and the Michelin sites.  Lots of good, fun content.

Steve, Springfield, Ill. (Sent Monday, December 17, 2007 2:00 PM)

Hmm...I send my "not sexy" underwear to Bjorn Borg's girlfriend, along with information on how to contact me and a mean meanie of a warlord will somehow fall into a funk and peace will reign.  Which side of the war/peace argument is this making fun of?  It does have a big button in the corner stating "This is for real".  But isn't the problem that the bad evil warlords suffer from low self-esteem in the first place?  Wont this just make them more upset?  Shouldn't we be showing them more love?  Or is that what sending them our underwear is about?  We are supposed to wash it first, I assume.  Geopolitics is so confusing...

KRW (Sent Monday, December 17, 2007 4:43 PM)

I liked the Michelin site the best. I liked the Good Things Should Never End site until I completed a drawing and I wanted to correct one little mistake with the eraser; but it erased the entire drawing!  The Get the Glass site seemed to be repetitive; because, the dice rolled in the same order as it did in the previous game and I always got caught on the same curve.  I really don't like being a criminal for trying to get a glass of milk--isn't that negative advertising? The best of the best criminals got milk? What's next, milk mustache masks on mug shots and surveillance camera videos?

Maria, Puerto Rico (Sent Monday, December 17, 2007 9:39 PM)

I enjoyed the hungry suitcase.  It figured me out.  The get the glass site is a classic case of advertising people not having their finger on the pulse of reality.  Glass is a nickname for methamphetamine, people.  Not cool when taken in light of that...

Chris, Seattle, WA (Sent Monday, December 17, 2007 10:43 PM)

I'm a Cyborg is strangely compelling, though totally weird and incoherent....

Jane Doe ,NY (Sent Monday, December 17, 2007 10:56 PM)

"favorite web site awards"?  shouldn't we have heard of these before to be a "favorite".  they all sucked, navigation was horrible, they take to much memory, and the info was useless advertisement. There is no way any of these are going in my favorite pile.

Eddie Haskel (Sent Tuesday, December 18, 2007 3:05 PM)

The hungry suitcase was fun but wouldn't work for me in Firefox so I had to use IE Tab; this list needs a warning for those of us inclined to open all in tabs, because it's not always clear what tab is the source of the annoying music.

I would vote for the paper critters.

Jack Weber (Sent Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:02 PM)

I liked the RED Universe...but I'm a sucker for things that remind me of Monty Python.  It was like Monty Python crossed with Tim Burton and you can chat.  Bizarre but fun.

Gillian, Madison (Sent Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:49 AM)



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