The 2.0 Awards

So, I explored the "Fun Stuff" category of the Web 2.0 Awards. The top selection was really cool. It was cocktailbuilder.com, and what you do is enter in the ingredients you have in your bar (soda, mixers, alcohol, fruit, etc.) and the site generates a list of cocktails--with recipes--that you can make! How awesome is that?! That would have been so handy when I was in college, instead of making all those gross experiment drinks like tequila & Sprite. And there was that one time when I drank a whole mug of vodka because I didn't have anything except for Gatorade to mix it with. I guess the "Web 2.0" aspect of it is that users can contribute their own recipes for cocktails. Anyway, this is the coolest site I've found in a long, long time.

There was another site I looked at, called onesentence.org, where you're supposed to tell a true story in only one sentence. Some of them were rather good, others were clearly written by people who thought they were being intelligent/poetic, and still others by folks trying (and failing) to be Hemingway [that's an allusion to his famous six-word story, of course].

The third site, fuzzmail, was ridiculous. I couldn't get it to work. It kept telling me that the e-mail address I was trying to use didn't work, even when I filled out a feedback form. Unless it's supposed to be a joke, it's dumb and needs to be debugged.

That is all.