Food

• Asian Recipes Do you love to cook Chinese, Thai, Indian, Korean, Japanese, and other Asian Cuisine? I don't either, but I do love to eat it. I just have to figure out how to get my husband to prepare some of the delicious sounding recipes you'll find on this site.

• The Real Martha This site features "real easy recipes for real busy people." It's a cooking site with a sense of humor! I hate cooking, but if ever find my way into the kitchen I just might try her recipes.

• Kieto's Daily Recipe & Funnies Recipes, humor, fun, games, music, links, & more.

• RecipeCenter.com I hate to cook. But for kitchen-friendly folks, this searchable recipe site is a terrific find.

• Zagat.com I've always been a big fan of Zagat's restaurant reviews books and am thrilled to find Zagat online with over 20,000 reviews of restaurants in many major metropolitan areas, a terrific search engine, links to maps and driving directions, and more.

• Mad Kane's Food & Drink Humor You'll find all of my food and drink related humor here, including my song parody, Ode To Takeout.

Fun & Quirky

• Harley Hahn's 25 Things To Do When You Should Be Working, a fun special feature from Harley Hahn's Internet Yellow Pages, which is now online.

• Encyclopedia Spuria This fun site is a "wikipedia of mis-information," packed with fallacious facts, bogus biographies, and nonsense neologisms.

• Trivia, Puzzles and Daily Weird News This fun site is updated daily with new trivia quizzes, puzzles, riddles, interesting strange links and various other activities that will challenge your wits. You can win daily award points which can be used to win monthly prizes.

• Anecdotage This entertaining site features funny stories about famous people -- "anecdotes from Gates to Yeats."

• ExplodingCigar Strange news, weird events, quirky sites. What could be more enticing?

• Albino Squirrel Preservation Society This University of Texas based organization seeks to do just what its title says. Sounds fine by me, so long as they don't get in my basement.

• ChangingLINKS.com This fun site allows you to view random, hand-picked sites.

• The New York City Blogger Map A creative project to bring together New York City's bloggers via a map of the city that shows where the bloggers are, organized by subway stop.

• John Fanzine This odd site defies description, so I won't even try, but do check it out.

• Hollywood Pulse The slogan of this funny site is: "Stimulating Irregular Heartbeats Since 2001." It features parody news stories, fake letters, and more about Hollywood celebs and other alleged entertainers.

• StumpYourFriends.com This site lets you create fun tests to find out who knows the most about you or anything else.

• Life's a Stitch: The Best of Contemporary Women's Humor A terrific, new Random House humor anthology, whose contributors include Wendy Wasserstein, Delia Ephron, Anna Quindlen, Kathy Najimy, Christine Lavin, Erma Bombeck, Julie Gold, Cathy Guisewite, Merrill Markoe, Patricia Volk, Signe Wilkinson, Jane Wagner, Judith Viorst, Fran Capo, Molly Ivins, Lynn Johnston, Julie Haslton, Roz Chast, and many other terrific writers, cartoonists, and singer/songwriters. I'm proud to say that one of my humor columns is in the book too.

• Camel Khazi This fun source of offbeat news prides itself in "continuing in the journalistic tradition of seemingly being unable to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization."

• Other Funny Humorists When I'm not writing humor or playing with my husband, I read the competition. Here are some entertaining humorists I think you'll enjoy.

• The Smoking Gun Home to no longer so secret "secret documents," this site unearths and reveals stuff that certain people don't want you to see

• Club Domainatrix This association for domain owners has an engaging zest for word play. Be sure to check out its members' links.

• The Black Vault The purpose of this interesting site is to help you "search for the truth." It features daily news headlines, a government document archive, and a message forum, and offers more to read than you'll ever have time for. .

• Sips From The Dribble Glass Of Life This very entertaining site features funny pictures, useless trivia, strange cards, jokes, links, spoofs, satire, & lots of other fun.

• SillyGirl.com Entertaining site from the founder of the famed Amused.com with fun links, personalized pages, and silliness galore.

• Word Play Word Play links to an excellent selection of sites featuring fun with words.

• Mugshots of the Rich and Famous Visit this site to view photos some famous people don't want you to see.

• Museum of Depressionist Art This "museum" specializes in the art of the Depressionist school, which most other museums reject as being too miserable, dejected and hopeless to warrant space on a wall. Be sure to visit. I'm betting it will cheer you up.

• TechnoCursed.com Do you curse out computers on a regular basis? If so, you're bound to enjoy this entertaining site.

• Gallery of the Unidentifiable Famous for having not a single identifiable artist in it, the Gallery specializes in sculpture and other objets d'art.

• LinkyDinky.com This twice weekly newsletter emails you useful, bizarre and fun web sites. The publishers of this entertaining newsletter hunt for cool sites so you don't have to.

• Thinks.com Thinks.com is an excellent directory and search engine for the Net's best sites for brain games, puzzles, word play, and mental recreation.

• EveryRule.com You want to play a game, but can't remember the rules? EveryRule.com has the rules to just about every imaginable card, computer, sports, TV show, and board game. It even has etiquette rules, which could come in handy if, say, a fight breaks out in the middle of a game.

• Dear Aunt Nettie This entertaining site features reader questions answered by Aunt Nettie, who claims to be "the oldest person still active on the Internet." Send your questions on to this "Internet pioneer of the previous century" or read her answers to other readers. You'll laugh and maybe even learn a thing or two.

• IShouldBeWorking.com This entertaining site strives "to be the best online starting point for web surfing slackishness" and does an excellent job. If you'd like to have a good time and avoid working, this is a fun site to visit.

• Bad Fads Museum Do you miss Cabbage Patch Dolls, Lava Lamps, Mood Rings, Pet Rocks, and Silly Putty? What about the Bermuda Triangle, the Limbo, Panty Raids, the Twist, and Toga Parties? Well I have good news ... I think: You can relive them all at BadFadsMuseum.com.

• Puzzability This award winning site will keep you busy with brain teasers and other fun puzzles for hours. If you like to hurt your head, check out this site.

• RinkWorks Online Entertainment Would you like to translate a Web site into Redneck, Jive, Cockney, Elmer Fudd, Swedish Chef, Moron, or Pig Latin? RinkWork's Dialectizer will do just that. That feature and RinkWork's other amusing activities, games, and humor will keep you entertained for hours. Just don't forget to get back to work.

• Babelfish Translator Are you looking for a really rough translation of a letter, document, or web page? Just plug it into Babelfish, pick a language, and you'll soon have an amusingly close, but no cigar translation. Warning: This site is not idiom-friendly.

• The Mother of All Excuses Place Do you need an excuse to get out of work, school, a date, seeing the doctor or something else you'd prefer to avoid? The Mother of All Excuses Place provides excuses for all that and more. Read them and share your own. But if you decide to use one, just remember they don't come with warranties.

• PopHistory Do you live in the past? Would you like to live in the past? PopHistory will remind you what you used to love or hate or ... what you missed.

• Web-Holidays Lots of info and links about every holiday imaginable, including some you've never heard of.

• Dumb Laws An amusing collection of laws that prove the U. S. has more than its share of dumb lawyers and legislators. The site owner acknowledges that not all of the laws have been verified, but it's fun to imagine that they're all for real.

• Twenty Questions I don't usually enjoy computer games, but this experiment in artificial intelligence has me hooked. Just think of something and watch as the computer tries to figure out what that something is.

• How Stuff Works Were you one of those annoying kids who constantly asked impossible to answer questions? Then this site is for you.

• Foreign Languages For Travelers Would you like to know how to say "I love you" in dozens of languages? What about the more utilitarian, "Where's the bathroom?" This foreign language site (with audio clips) is a great way to avoid being an Ugly (and hungry) American.

• Quoteland.com An amusing and informative site packed with quotes about almost everything, accessible both by topic and randomly. Reading quotes in the humor section's "stupidity area" is the best way I know to boost self-esteem.

• UselessKnowledge.com The most useful useless site I've ever seen ... and that's a good thing.

• The Weird Site A fun and amusing site with weird news items and more.

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