Crushable – Here’s another entertainment website that vows to be different from what’s out there. According to their About page, “Crushable–smart, funny and genuine–combines celebrity news, style and a wide spectrum of content that appeals to an engaged, entertainment-obsessed audience.” Crushable’s entertainment coverage consists of four main categories; Entertainment, Style, Relationships (those of celebrities), and Other Stuff.

White Whine – Sometimes bitching about our dire situation makes us feel better. White Whine, “a collection of first-word problems,” shows what are the most burning predicaments of the contemporary American society. White Whine does so by surveying the Web and picking out the best sarcastic aphorisms. You’ll find lots of interesting, mostly funny entries here, ranging from the hilarious to the absurd. Either way it’s entertainment! Here are two examples.

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Clay Yourself – This super cute feature by Hotels.com invites users to create their very own clay avatar, and up until recently, users could pitch their hardened creation to the Hotels.com contest – chosen winner will star in Hotels.com’s advertisement. Although the Clay Yourself contest has ended you can still use this tool to see just how you would look in clay form.

To create your own clay avatar, simply hit Get Started and follow the different steps of choosing your facial features, dress and accessories. If you’ve played the Wii game before, it’s just like creating your character there. When you’re done don’t forget to share your new you with friends! This is a lot of fun – look at my clay avatar. What a looker missed out on the contest!

Dorkly – Videogame comedy. Yes, there is such a thing and it’s on fire right here, at Dorkly.com. If you’re not fluent in Playstation, XBox and Nintendo, this site is not for you. I believe the classic target audience of Dorkly is young males (aged 15-35). Either way, here are a couple of funny posts I thought I’d share – click the image to read them in full.

Memolane – This most inspiring and exciting service offers an interactive, ongoing audio-visual timeline of your life, with the option of adding your friends as collaborators. Create your own Memolane made up of photos, music, video, tweets, status updates, blogs, and many other content tools and you will be pleasantly surprised at how rich your seemingly ordinary life really is.

Click the image below to see what a Memolane timeline looks like, this one -rather, only a fraction of it- by Jeff Hester.

To learn more about Memolane and how it works, see this video:

Earbits – This super cool website offers an innovative way to consume music freely online, and discover new artists along the way. What starts out as a simple-looking page with 13 music genres to choose from (there’s also a ‘shuffle all’ option) soon turns into a most rewarding experience that not only looks amazing, but also provides high quality music sounds.

To give you the perfect example of what Earbits is about, see the image below, the listening page for Blues. The most eye-grabbing part here is the image of the artist himself (in this case Boo Boo Davis). The name of the artist will show on the bottom left side of the page, and clicking “view more” will pull you down to an informative bio and discography section of the artist you’re listening to.

In addition, Earbits have worked hard to make sure the social aspect of this service is as best as it can be; you can give each song a thumbs up or down, and when connected to the site via Facebook you can share whole songs with your friends, even tweet the track you’re listening to! Now that’s socially rewarding.

Top10 – Search from the hundreds if not thousands of Top10 lists available on this cute site, ranking just about anything you can think of. There are conventional, what-you-would-expect lists such as Top 10 Language Guides, but also surprising entries, such as Top 10 Austin Powers Moments, and this is just the tip of the Top10 iceberg.

Although browsing Top 10 lists other have created is entertaining -quite funny at times-there’s nothing like creating your own and mixing others’ lists! Don’t be shy now, do it now and add it to Top10’s list.

TVLine – This winning Weekly Blog is not just another TV entertainment site. Rather, it claims it’s here “to help TV enthusiasts cut through all the clutter and find a happy place where, more often than not, you will want to read most every post.”

Sufferrosa – Described as “a non-linear, interactive Web-based movie,” Sufferrosa is a most artistic and creative neo-noir film created by Dawid Marcinkowski that will blow your mind and senses. You start off as a detective investigating the disappearance of a young woman, but the case’s details soon become bizarre and surprising. It is up to you to investigate and get any bit of information you can to solve the case.

Sufferrosa is a first of its kind Web-based film; it has over 110 scenes, three alternative endings, and takes place in 20 different locations. Dive right into it and soon you will come across the lady with the shotgun while on a quest to find out what happened to Rosa Von Braun (see below). Enjoy.

Tasting Table – I am usually weary of sites that work on an email newsletter-only basis rather than offering open, surfable pages. Tasting Table is an exception to this rule of thumb of mine. This food savvy hot spot offers a daily serve of “one delicious idea about dining, wine, cocktails, cooking or restaurant personalities. We feed you only first-hand recommendations that we have tested thoroughly ourselves—one bite at a time.”

Tasting Table is a refreshing take on gastronomic and recipes recommendations online, and it currently covers the culinary arenas of NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC and San Francisco. Hopefully with time Tasting Table will offer the same superb food & wine content for other cities as well. Either way, I am subscribed. Here’s an example of one of the daily emails I received from Tasting Table (my apologies for the incomplete image, the full recipe is below):

Turnip and Rutabaga Gratin

Recipe adapted from Steven Satterfield, Miller Union, Atlanta

Yield: 6 side-dish servings

INGREDIENTS:

1 medium rutabaga (about ¾ pound), peeled and thinly sliced

1 teaspoon thyme leaves

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

2 tablespoons unsalted butter, plus more for buttering the baking dish

1 medium purple turnip (about ¾ pound), peeled and thinly sliced

2 cups bread crumbs, preferably homemade

1 cup chicken stock, preferably homemade

1 cup heavy cream

2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat the oven to 450˚ and lightly butter an 8-by-8-by-2-inch baking dish.

2. Arrange a thin, even layer of the rutabaga slices across the bottom of the dish. Sprinkle with a pinch of thyme, salt and pepper, then dot with tiny pats of the butter. Arrange a thin, even layer of turnip slices over the rutabaga. Sprinkle with thyme, salt and pepper and dot with more butter. Continue the layering process, alternating between the rutabaga and turnip, until the dish is approximately two-thirds full and all the vegetables have been included.

3. Season the bread crumbs with salt and black pepper and spread over the vegetables. Pour the chicken stock and cream over the bread crumbs; press down on the bread crumbs gently to absorb the liquids. Drizzle with the olive oil.

4. Bake until the gratin is golden brown and the vegetables in the center of the dish are tender when poked with a paring knife, about 35 minutes. Remove the gratin from the oven and let rest for 20 minutes, then serve.

Hahahaha.fr – Embark on a noisy, exciting and above all, funny experience of mixing a variety of human laughs. This French site takes laughter and smiles to the extreme by matching keyboard buttons with laughs. Try it out for yourself. My personal favorite? Press B once all the faces load on the page.

LivingSocial – Groupon is probably one of the most talked about websites this year, and for a good reason. The group deals niche is growing at an exponential rate, and keeps drawing more and more participants as time goes by. LivingSocial is another promising Groupon-like site that aims to offer rewarding deals in American, Canadian, even Australian cities, while boosting local businesses.

Sign up by providing your email address and picking your city, and get a daily offer of something cool to do in your city. What I like about LivingSocial is their Escapes feature, which offers affordable weekend getaways and short vacations across the US and Canada. I’m already subscribed. What are you waiting for?