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Funny Websites

Try the Douchebag Name Generator

If you already know your Porn Star Name, Soap Opera Name, or Rapper Name, then it’s time for you to get on board with the latest Internet item to share with your friends and family:

GET YOUR DOUCHEBAG NAME

It’s surprisingly accurate.  Be sure to share YOUR douchebag name in the comments.  We’ll all have a good laugh, won’t we?

Brought to you from the fine folks at T Shirt Hell.

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10 Things food Travel

The 50 Most Child-Friendly Restaurants

OpenTable is a website that allows hungry people to make restaurant reservations online. That feature by itself it worthwhile, but their restaurant reviews are also useful in making OpenTable a great site to use when trying to find a new restaurant to try – or better, find a restaurant in a city you’ve never been to.

OpenTable recently held their annual Diner’s Choice awards, and received over 2.5 million restaurant reviews covering over 9,000 different restaurants around the country. Based on those reviews, here is OpenTable’s list of the TOP 50 MOST CHILD-FRIENDLY RESTAURANTS for 2009:

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10 Things News

100 Things Today’s Kids Will Never Know

Looking back over the past 40 years, the writers at WIRED magazine have compiled a list of 100 THINGS THAT TODAY’S KIDS WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE.

How many can you think of?  Here are a random assortment of 10 things from the list:

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Disney food Websites

Top Revenue-Producing Restaurants for 2009

Restaurants and Institutions magazine has released their 2009 list of the TOP 400 RESTAURANT CHAINS, in terms of revenue.

Coming in at top is no surprise: McDonalds, with over US$70 billion in sales.

Rounding out the rest of the top ten are:

  • KFC ($17.8b)
  • Burger King ($14.8b)
  • Starbucks ($13.5b)
  • Subway ($12.9b)
  • Pizza Hut ($10.4b)
  • Wendy’s ($9.2b)
  • Taco Bell ($6.9b)
  • Domino’s Pizza ($5.5b)
  • Dunkin’ Donuts ($5.5b)

The magazine also released their annual list of the TOP EARNING INDEPENDENT RESTAURANTS FOR 2009 as well.

Just as Web Watch reported a few years ago the first time we looked at these statistics, Las Vegas-based TAO is still at the top of the list, with $68m in 2008 earnings and an average dinner check of $72.  Not bad, when you have 785,000 people coming through your door.

The rest of the top 10 independent restaurants were:

  • Tavern on the Green
  • Joe’s Stone Crab
  • Smith & Wollensky
  • Tao Asian Bistro
  • Old Ebbitt Grill
  • Buddakan
  • Gibsons Bar Steakhouse
  • Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab, Chicago
  • Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab, Las Vegas

Falling just out of the top 10, at spot number 11, is our first Walt Disney World property, Fulton’s Crab House.  With an average check of $45, Fulton’s made $20m in 2008.  Other Disney properties that made the list include Wolfgang Puck Grand Cafe at #25 ($15.7m), and the Contemporary Resort’s California Grill at #97 ($11.1m).

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Disney Funny Video

Video Fun: Hitler Loves Disney

Due to some enterprising and creative folk with access to some video editing software, here are a few different (and occasionally NSFW) takes on a popular Internet meme of Hitler finding something to complain about:

Hitler Wants to eat at Epcot’s Le Cellier

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Gadgets TV

TiVo Statistics on Commercial Skipping for May 2009

TiVo: those who have never owned one will never understand. Those who have used a generic DVR think they understand, but they really don’t.

One benefit that many TiVo enthusiasts love to speak about is their ability to fast-forward through commercials. This has led to some advertisers trying to make their ads “TiVo-Friendly”, so that the core message of the spot will still be conveyed, even as the rest of the commercial goes by in a blur. As an example, you may have seen some movie ads that have the name of the movie displayed at the top of the screen for the duration of the commercial. TiVo users may not see the commercial content, but they know what the commercial was for.

Heck, even NBC CONDUCTED A STUDY THAT PROVED TIVO and DVR USERS DO PAY ATTENTION TO COMMERCIALS. In part, it’s because users who are fast-forwarding through the commercials end up watching the screen intently focused on when the commercial break stops, and if they happen to see an interesting commercial whiz by, they’ll rewind back to watch it.

Let’s take a look at WHAT TiVo SAYS ARE THE MOST WATCHED PROGRAMS AND COMMERCIALS BY TiVo USERS IN MAY 2009: