single-serving site

I have mixed feelings about Yelp.

Sure, it can be helpful in finding a restaurant.  But you have to keep in mind that Yelp only expresses the opinions of the kind of person who takes the time to write a review on Yelp.  It's kind of like how the best person you'll find via online dating is someone who had to resort to online dating.

Tumblr blog Cry for Yelp shows how sometimes you have to question the mental stability of members of the Yelp community…

The review from "Henry P." written in the voice of The Hulk shown above is just one of many examples of the often needy, vengeful or just plain socially inept people who voice their opinions on local eateries.

"Suddenly it's policy to let your waiters chase customers down…because I genuinely forgot to tip and apologized?" laments one review on Cry for Yelp.  Um, is it your policy to apologize only after you get caught not tipping?

I didn't think that "awesome" YouTube comments existed until someone made an entire site dedicated to them. Awesome YouTube Comments is just a big, constantly updated list of out-of-context YouTube comments. Some are relatively entertaining…

They sing about women, but at 0:48 1:21 2:11 2:26 & 3:03 you can clearly see Chaka Demus giving Pliers some seriously sensual buttsex

"Butt sex" is always funny, but it's much funnier as one word. Here's another:

My brother once put a screwdriver in our old microwave. He was 5, I think. Anyway, it caught on fire, but my parents put it out. I didn?t get to see it because i was playing The Legend of Zelda

Look at that! YouTube comments have some hope. I could write a whole entire stage play around this! It's well-articulated with three acts and only a few grammar/punctuation errors… all from a poorly-monitored 11-year-old Legend of Zelda player.

[via The Daily What]

How many people are in space? Currently, six, but not for long. Salvia Erik is on the way.

Sometimes, you just need to know how many people are in space. howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com makes it really easy to find out.

A website like this is easy enough to update manually these days, but in like 100 years, the upkeep is going to get really difficult. I don?t think they know what they?re getting themselves into.

If someone dies in space, do they still count towards the total? What about if someone gets lost in space? Do aliens count? If not, they might find themselves with a discrimination lawsuit. These are just some of the things you have to think about if you want to have a website that lasts.

[via The Presurfer]

When Kanye-bashing, the all-caps thing works especially well.

Single-serving one-liner sites like Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle (and more recently, Joe Wilson is Your Pre-Existing Condition) were the precursor to micro-humor-blogs like FML. Well, since interrupting Taylor Swift's VMA speech this weekend, even Kanye West has earned one: Kanye Needs to STFU. Here are a few iterations of the joke, from the new Kanye site:

KANYE IS JUST WAITING FOR YOUR PRIEST TO ASK 'IF ANYONE KNOWS WHY THIS MAN AND WOMAN SHOULD NOT BE WED…'

KANYE NEEDS TO BE HANDCUFFED TO FURNITURE AT AWARD SHOWS

KANYE NEEDS A TIME-OUT WITH NO MILK AND COOKIES

But why stop with Kanye? Here are a few single-serving sites that I think need making:

• Michael Jackson is Your Favorite Tribute Show
• Beyonce is Your Second Acceptance Speech
• Lady Ga Ga is Your Maybe-Hermaphrodite
• Taylor Swift is Your Country Music Singer

In the comments, leave your single-serving website ideas or some one-liners that could go with the sites above. Better yet, take a crack at a single-serving site yourself. Wired has some instructions.

[via Mat]

Is It Iced Coffee Weather? is a single-serving site that figures out your zip code and uses an advanced weather algorithm to calculate "yes" or "no." Even though it would be faster to look out the window than to type in the web address, there's definitely a yuppie market for coffee sites like this one. But they should rename it to "Is It Organic, Shade-Grown, Fair Trade Certified Iced Coffee Weather?"