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The worst street names in America

Are you ashamed of where you live, not because of the neighborhood, but because of the name of your city?

How would you like to live in either Blue Ball or Intercourse, Pennsylvania?  Cumming, Georgia?  Stoner, Colorado?  (well, that last one may be more appropriate now than previously, but still…)

Of course you can see a full list of EMBARASSING CITY NAMES at any number of places online…

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Gambling shopping Websites

If you’re reading this right now, chances are you didn’t win the lottery

So we hear that you may have bought a lottery ticket or two recently, hoping to maybe win big.

Hey – it could happen. It only takes one set of numbers to win, right?  And somebody’s going to win the lottery eventually – it can’t keep growing forever without a winner, as that would end up decreasing sales if customers ever figured out that nobody ever wins.

That’s why we still bother to try, because while the chances of winning the lottery drawing are practically nil, it’s still a one in millions chance of hitting… and that’s better odds than not bothering to buy a ticket in the first place.

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Parents: Don’t let your kids play in the bouncy castle ever again

Parents, listen up!

Remember when WEB WATCH TOLD YOU ABOUT POO in the BALL PIT?  Or when we mentioned other PLAYGROUND INJURIES that you need to be aware of when your kids go out to play?

Well, guess what?  There’s anotherPLAYGROUND DANGERthat Web Watch needs to share with you:

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10 Completely Useless Wine Accessory Gift Ideas

As we get deeper into the Holiday Gift Giving season, perhaps its time to take a moment to reflect on whether that wine accessory really is something that the recipient would appreciate.

The way Web Watch sees it, if you’re going to give a wine enthusiast a gift, you might as well give them a bottle of wine that either YOU like (so you can then say, “hey, let’s open that bottle I just gave you”) or a bottle of wine that you know THEY’LL like in the hopes that they will open that bottle and share with you anyway.

Funny thing about giving a gift of wine – you’ll probably end up having some of it anyway.

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Funny How To Internet News TV Websites

Why every office should be filled with kittens and puppies

Are you watching the current BRAVO TV program LOLWORK?

It’s a reality TV program that allegedly shows the real-world behind-the-scenes workings of how the Cheezburger Network — home toLOL CATSand millions of other funny animal pictures and videos — does business.

While most the show appears to be purposefully driven to make what is supposed to be good TV, there are specific business-aspects that get aired that really for-real give a reasonable peek behind the curtain of what it takes to run a popular content-driven website.

Watching LOLWORK will give you a good reminder that it’s always hard work to create good, compelling CONTENT for your website, but that it’s that same content that also brings eyeballs to your site in the first place.  Focus on the content, let everything else fall into place later.

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Music

How much does Pandora pay musicians?

Web Watch has covered the COMPLICATED WORLD OF MUSIC ROYALTY PAYMENT CALCULATIONS in the past, showed you how to calculate MUSIC ROYALTY PAYOUTS with a MUSIC ROYALTY CALCULATOR, and even told you HOW MUCH MONEY iTUNES PAYS ARTISTS.

And yet, the question keeps coming up over and over from various artists: HOW MUCH MONEY CAN I MAKE ONLINE WITH MUSIC?

And the answer keeps coming back as “not as much as you’d think”.

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How To News Science

Peeing in Space, Revisited: How Urine May Power Space Flight

The other day, Web Watch had the privilege of having dinner with a former NASA engineer, and as is often the case with this gentleman, the inevitable topic of using the bathroom in the confines of the Space Shuttle or the International Space Station came up.

Not by us, of course.  He was the one to first broach the subject, which we found a little odd, especially over dinner.

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What REALLY happens when you have an opportunity to sleep with your fantasy

Everybody has aTOP FIVE LIST.

That’s the list of your Top Five Most Desired celebrities who, if you ever have the opportunity to do so, you would sleep with – no questions asked from your current spouse or partner.

The obvious reason for the no strings attached hookup allowance is that we can all be fairly confident that the opportunity to actually sleep with perennial favorites Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Sandra Bullock, or George Clooney will never actually happen.

The Top Five List is the purest form of fantasy, like buying a lottery ticket, in that you can dream about what the experience would be like if it were to actually come true with the safety in the knowledge that it never will.  You can be as wild and crazy as you want in your mind, without having to go through with anything in the end.