Month: September 2012

How to write a comment on the Internet (It’s “Online Commenting Etiquette 101”)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 22, 2012
1 Comment on How to write a comment on the Internet (It’s “Online Commenting Etiquette 101”)

Commenting (whether it be on a blog, a Facebook page, or via Tweet) is a fine art.

Some people get it right, and are effective in rallying other readers behind their cause. Others are looked at as Internet trolls, people who have absolutely nothing to add to the conversation.

Look, it’s really easy — we get it, the Internet is an anonymous cesspool of interaction, allowing anyone with a screen and a keyboard to shout out whatever they feel like, at any time they’d like. The First Amendment does protect those folks in saying whatever they want, but the First Amendment doesn’t guarantee that they can say it wherever they can. That’s why the DELETE and BAN buttons were invented.

Tags 10 Things, Blog, facebook, How To, Internet, twitter

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Top things to do on a first date

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 21, 2012

When was the last time you went on a “first date”?

Can you even remember what you did on your first date with your current significant other? Here’s a game to play — with your spouse, you each separately write down how you believe your first date went. The where, what, how — as many details as you can each remember.

Then, hand your answers over to an impartial party (like your best friends or children), and have them compile the answers back to see who got the most portions of the story correct. Bonus points are awarded for anything the two of you match on.

Tags 10 Things, dating, How To, Relationships, website

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How to dress like Honey Boo Boo (and other Halloween ideas)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 20, 2012
1 Comment on How to dress like Honey Boo Boo (and other Halloween ideas)

By now, Web Watch is sure you’ve seen the trainwreck of a reality TV show on TLC, HERE COMES HONEY BOO BOO.

We thought it would be a perfect time to tell you how to DRESS LIKE HONEY BOO BOO as the Perfect Halloween Costume for this year.

Tags community, costumes, fashion, Halloween, holidays, How To, reality tv, SNL, TV, website

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10 Toxic products you should avoid

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 19, 2012

Do you read product labels when you’re making household purchases? Web Watch does try to avoid buying food that contains high fructose corn syrup or has “sugar” listed on the label — but we’re a creature of habit, and Pop Tarts taste so darn good.

But we don’t really take the time to read all those other funky labels and warnings that seem to be applied to practically everything we get nowadays. Do we care that something was made in a plant that also processes “soy”, “nuts”, and “dairy products”? Eh. Not so much… but we know some folks who do care, so we’re not going to make fun of them for this.

Tags 10 Things, cosmetics, food, germs, health, medical, science, shopping, water

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Um, what’s YOUR “crutch word”?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 18, 2012

A while back, Web Watch told you about how much we hate certain words – like “mancave” and “actually”.

It ends up that there’s a reason why some of these words really suck – and it’s not because some of these phrases are just stupid made-up things (“vajayjay”) that serve no purpose when other, more practical words can suffice.

Tags 10 Things, education, english, language, public speaking

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Whatcha doing on October 6th? Why not take the Caine’s Arcade “Cardboard Challenge”?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 17, 2012

Hopefully by now, you’ve heard the story about Caine Monroy and the arcade he made in his dad’s shop, where all the games were made entirely out of cardboard.

No? It’s a phenomenal story. Here – watch this, then continue…

Tags Arcade, DIY, education, game, holidays, Jack Black, parenting, Video, video games, website

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What’s the best AA battery?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 16, 2012

Web Watch had a rough childhood.

Our father was a bit of a tinkerer. A gadget-guy. (Still is, actually.)

He loves to put things through their paces, then take them apart to see how they worked or if they could be improved upon.

For a while, when we were young, he was infatuated with battery-operated devices – like toys. So he’d go out and buy the latest, greatest battery-operated toy (even better if it was a rechargeable battery). And Web Watch would get to play with the toy for as long as we wanted to.

Go ahead. Have fun with that.

Until Dad decided that it was time for him to take the toy apart and see what made it last as long as it did on that single battery charge.

Web Watch went through a lot of battery-operated toys during that time. Sure, we got to play with all of them, but only for like a day.

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News

Math is hard; let’s go shopping!

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 15, 2012

There’s a running joke at Web Watch about one’s ability – or inability – to handle math that’s more advanced than the basic multiplication table.

We’ve counted on our fingers in public more often than we care to note, and we are often despised at the blackjack tables — not because we don’t know the rules of the game or make the incorrect strategy decisions, but rather because we slow the game down tremendously while we determine whether we should hit or stay on a 6 of clubs and an 8 of hearts vs a dealer’s up-card of 4.

Yeah, 6+8 shouldn’t be a difficult piece of math to remember, but sometimes things aren’t as easy as they look.

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