So the other day, Web Watch was browsing through TheChive’s Daily Randomness when we ran across this picture:
And we said to ourselves, “by golly, we’ve seen this before.”
And sure enough, we had.
Year: 2009
Have you done your part to pay down the national debt?
Your share is just $39,000. In the big picture, that really isn’t all that much if you think about it.
A Russian woman set the record for having birthed the most children in her 27 pregnancies: 69. The brood included sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets.
And that’s just the first of 10 SURPRISING SEXUAL STATISTICS that LiveScience has tracked down for those of us at Web Watch. The other nine include these gems:
According to a recent study conducted by Captain Obvious (really, BYU lead researcher Brian Willoughby) and printed in the Journal of American College Health, COED DORMS LEAD TO OUTRAGEOUS AMOUNTS OF SEX AND AN OVERABUNDANCE OF DRINKING.
The survey of 500 students took place at two midwestern public universities and a west coast university, and the east coast was represented by a liberal arts college and a religious university.
The study found that students in coed housing were…
When was the last time you went on a job interview? Did you had some tough interview questions?
Web Watch is a fan of some of the infamous Microsoft interview questions, such as “how many payphones are there in Manhattan?” (answer then: assume 4 payphones per street corner, then calculate how many street corners there are in Manhattan. answer now: probably none)
Lewis Lin, an interview coach in Seattle, has compiled 140 GOOGLE JOB INTERVIEW QUESTIONS that have been asked over the years.
The Internet today is certainly faster than the Internet of 20 years ago.
Web Watch remembers using a 2400 baud modem to connect to what was the ‘net back in the day – and that was considered lightning fast for the time. (Sadly, Web Watch still has that modem in the back closet, just in case our broadband connection dies and we have to resort to connecting to the net the old-fashioned way.)
We eventually got 19,200 baud, and later 56k modems – everyone thought that was as fast as the Internet could possibly go at the time. We were transferring files in hours instead of days, and that was good enough for us.
But with broadband and wireless everywhere, transferring large amounts of data has become an everyday activity – but some transfers can still take a while to process.
With that in mind, some enterprising scientists decided to see exactly how long it would take to transfer a large file across the Internet, and compare that to the landspeed of some animals to see which was faster.
BILLIONAIRE XCHANGE is not for the common folk who like to eat chicken wings, watch football, and sit in the back of the plane on cross-country flights.
No, Billionaire Xchange is for those snooty rich folks and celebrities who like to hobnob amongst themselves, drinking tea with their pinkies sticking out and yelling “cheerio!” during their polo match.
Yes, even the rich need to auction off an item or two, but for them – eBay just isn’t the right way to go about things. Billionaire Xchange gives those sellers with some big ticket items…and we do mean BIG TICKET items…a place to buy and sell without worrying about being scammed by a crafty teenager with a hacked American Express card.
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If this is what visiting Bulgaria is all about, Web Watch really doesn’t want to go.