BBspot is a geek satire and humour web site. Its features are divided into categories: it has false "news" in categories such as Tech News, Microsoft, and Hollywood; mail in the Mailbag category; movie trailer reviews in the Reviews category; contests in the Contest category; and programs such as quizzes in the Gizmos category. BBspot also has personal ads, a shop, polls, and forums; these are only loosely integrated with the main site. The forums are frequented by several people, who often contribute to the articles on the website. A geek A geek is a person who is fascinated, perhaps obsessively, by obscure or very specific areas of knowledge and imagination. ... Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ... Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the ability or quality of people, objects or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. ... A website, Web site or WWW site (often shortened to just site) is a collection of webpages, that is, HTML/XHTML documents accessible via HTTP on the Internet; all publicly accessible websites in existence comprise the World Wide Web. ... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the worlds largest software company, with over 50,000 employees in various countries as of May 2004. ... ...

See also

• The Onion, a similar satire site
• Broken Newz
• Slashdot

The Onion is a newspaper of parody and satire, published weekly in print and on the Internet. ... A satire news website launched in 2001 by Bill Doty. ... Slashdot (frequently abbreviated as /.) is a popular technology-related website, updated many times daily with articles that are short summaries of stories on other websites with links to the stories, and provisions for readers to comment on the story. ...

External link

• BBspot.com