It’s the end of 2006, time for those to use their blogs and journals to reflect on the past and look forward to the upcoming year. Time for us to look at some of the highlights in our lives and what we predict will happen.

In other words, the same shit everyone else is doing.

Go to Ben’s site and see him talking about how he plans on being just as happy with his boyfriend as he was this year. Click to Jessica’s site and watch her cry about how sad she was and that she will never let another guy break her heart ever again for the 15th time.

But not here! We’re cutting edge.

If you believed that line of crap, then stop reading now. Not that I’m going to give you the run down of what we did and where we’re going (I kinda did that already, anyway). No, this is where I take a look at a couple of websites you should be checking out but probably aren’t, and where you can do the same (but if you shill your own site you’ll be flogged with a stick).

I Talk 2 Much
When I first started going there, there were three girls and a guest here and there. Now there seems to be a whole gaggle of reviewers, and not one of them are nice.

They will take your site and rip it to shreds, make you wish you never bought a computer, and expose the truth about how you actually copied your template from a Tripod page instead of “hand-coding” it.

Right, because Notepad is a real web design program.

Girls Talking Smack
Just like D-Listed last year, Girls Talking Smack is the Poor Man’s version of TMZ, with a bunch of girls .. wait for it .. talking smack.

Unlike the “big” celeb blogger sites like Perez Hilton, the girls at GTS have no problem revealing a bit of themselves every once in a while. It’s a nice touch to read about one of their holiday gifts they received sandwiched between Britney Spears looking to adopt a child and Carrie Underwood doing something ridiculously ordinary but because she’s a celebrity (she won American Idol, people… SHE EARNED HER STRIPES!) she gets thrown in the mix.

Too bad she doesn’t get thrown into a train. Not that I don’t like country, I just don’t like her.

Making Fiends
The web has seen some characters come to life. One of the more famous is Strong Bad, the boxing glove wearing wrestler that reads emails at Homestarrunner.com, but there are others. The resident bad-ass is Foamy the Squirrel at illwillpress.com, but Making Fiends makes me giggle like a young school boy getting a wedgie and then being thrown in a garbage dumpster at the backyard of the local Chinese restaurant.

Much like life, there are two sides to every story. The graphics are sketchy but fits the darkness of the piece. The sound is great and the writing is incredible. I think they’d be the web’s next big thing if they updated more often, but I still like what’s there.

And with that, the end of another year is about to come upon us. Three sites that show you that the web is still not filled up with a bunch of fake plastic idiots who pretend they are so philosophical when in fact they couldn’t spell HTML if you gave them the letters H, T, and M in advance. There’s more to the ‘net than people self-dramatizing their lives by getting overanxious over one idiot’s calling them a horrible person to the point where they decide to leave the ‘net forever (until they come up with a new website and end up getting busted for stealing another girl’s layout). And by God there’s more to life on the web than the upcoming 2007 Stick It Awards (start the salivating now).

What about you? What sites interest you? Who makes you want to come online? Share your links and a brief “why” with the rest of us.