HOT SITES
Cooking
It’s less than two months to the 75th anniversary of Hostess Twinkies snack cakes. Start planning your celebration with recipes (including a gingerbread house, above) from the site’s user-contributed collection. The Twinkie sushi (yes, it’s a recipe, not a Japanese rock band) is simply to die for.
www.twinkies.com/recipebox/ index.asp?cmd=view&id=84
Fun and games
Name a nine-letter word for mind-exercising trivia. “Crossword” fits the bill. That was easy, but it would be difficult to exhaust the 32,400 free crossword puzzles and fun tools this site offers. Word-game enthusiasts can choose from a number of different grid sizes and even create puzzles of their own.
Technology
If you’re tired of reading through dozens of Google search results, let Speegle do the work for you. This Web tool reads the results to you in one of three voice styles, and users can choose how much of each result’s information they want to listen to.
Gannett News Service