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Websites We Love In May!

Sure, you love Twitter, but sometimes coming up with 140 characters all by your little self can be taxing. (Actually, maybe just coming up with a thought is the taxing part.) Anyway, we have the solution for you at yes.thatcan.be/my/next/tweet, a site that uses phrases and words from your past tweets to generate entirely new ones. It can either be hilariously nonsensical or eerily appropriate — and be warned, it’s addicting. (A remixed @buzzbin tweet: “Check out TODAY!”) The endless hipster quandary: You love music, but you hate paying for it. You want to support the artists, but you also want to support a open-source world. You’d like to pay 99 cents for the new Rihanna single, but your electricity just got shut off for non-payment and you’ve been eating nothing but fried rice for three weeks. Enter freemusicarchive.org. A non-shady version of Napster, the FMA is an interactive library of music that’s been cleared for various uses by its team of audio curators. In short, everything’s legal, free and done with musicians’ consent. (Once your electicity’s back on, you can even send Paypal “tips” to your favorite artists.) Know what the Internet needs? That’s right: More adorable animal videos. Thank God there’s cuteroulette.com, which keeps ’em coming as steadily as the interwebz can make ’em. Sure, there are the classics — the skateboarding bulldog, the showering tabby cat, the pair of treadmilling Corgis — but there are also those lesser known but still face-meltingly cute scenes of kittens sharing a watermelon, a baby squirrel with hiccups, puppies falling asleep, and on and on and on. And on. Don’t you just love those sites that are lots of fun sober, but really fun drunk, and really, really fun high? Check out solarsystemscope.com the next time you’ve been busily chemically altering your mental state. The interactive site allows you to explore the solar system, measure light years, visit planets and freak out. Click and drag the screen to change, quite literally, your view of the universe. We take no responsibility for Cheeto dust on the keyboard, post-munchies.