ItsUnfortunate.com - Make Your Own Fortune

Chinese fortune cookies are fun and crispy treats; who wouldn’t like a cookie containing a clever message like ‘You’re talented and will become prosperous in the near future’? Eat enough Chinese food though and you’ll find the fortunes are a trifle repetitive, dull even. Why not make your own? The heads over at itsUnfortunate.com have brought Web 2.0 over into the cookie realm. Input your own fortunes. See what other people written. The homepage is filled with the best and worst, as voted by fellow soothsayers. Among the top fortunes include ‘Help! I’m trapped in a fortune cookie factory,’ and ‘Warranty void if cookie broken’. Write your own fortune and print it out. Share it with the world or keep it private. The site’s also got the standard cookie fortunes as well as a nifty learn Chinese box beside it. Make your fortune, share it and learn a foreign language at the same time, could it get any better?

“unfortunate is the only place where you can view, create, share, and print your own fortunes.”

The site is clever, fun and creative. You could a kill a few minutes of your day browsing through the fortune hall of fame or by simply making up your own bizarre, and non sequitur fortunes. itsUnfortunate will make you smile. Share it with friends for a chuckle.

The site’s good for laughs and for jokes perhaps, but it’s just that. There’s nothing else you can do with it. Perhaps they could incorporate a widget so that you could put fortunes on your friend’s MySpace or FaceBook page.