Back in July, Web Watch brought you information about the pending WORLD TEXTING COMPETITION that talked about how fast texting champion Kate Moore was able to send a text message to put the US on top of the fast texting map.
Now that it’s 2010, we have A NEW TEXTING CHAMPION.
Meet South Korea’s 18-year-old Young-Ho Bae and 17-year-old Mok-Min Ha, the 2010 WORLD’S FASTEST TEXTERS.
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Sometimes, all you want to do is climb into a heavy-duty tank and blow up someone else up in a massive game of capture-the-flag.
That’s just what you do in MINIONS ON ICE, one of the many games from David Scott and the CREATIVE COLLECTIVE, the creators of DESKTOP TOWER DEFENSE.
Yeah, that’s right. David Scott is one of the masterminds behind Creative Collective, and he’s the guy who practically invented the Tower Defense genre that has killed so much of our free time with games such as Flash Element TD or variations from other developers like GEMCRAFT Chapter Zero.
What we’re trying to say here is that this is the gaming site behind one of the forces behind the casual gaming movement. Web Watch wouldn’t steer you wrong on this. Trust us – this stuff is good.
(Which reminds Web Watch – there’s a new version of DESKTOP TOWER DEFENSE available for Facebook users, with weekly updated maps. Thought you’d want to know.)
In YET ANOTHER NOSTALGIA BLOG-TURNED-POSSIBLE-EXPLOITATIVE BOOK DEAL, Web Watch points you to GROWING UP HEROES, a photoblog of old family photos that have been submitted by the site’s readers.
In this case, the family photos are of children (and others) dressed up as their favorite superheroes.
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Remember the old school basketball video game ONE ON ONE (Larry Bird vs Dr J)?
How about trying to play the same game of one-on-one, but with thousands of people from around the world?
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HOW MANY DIFFERENT CHEMICALS DO WOMEN PUT ON THEIR FACES EVERY DAY?
A UK company, Bionsen, determined that the average woman puts 515 different chemicals on her face every day, using a combination of makeup, perfumes, mascara, and other products.
The average woman uses 13 different products daily, and each product contains at least 20 different ingredients — lipsticks and other makeup average 30 ingredients, and some perfumes can have as many as 400 different ingredients.
It gets scarier from there. You pay attention to the labels on food you eat, but have you paid attention to the ingredient list on your personal grooming products… if those products even contain ingredient lists in the first place?
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Every year for the past 20 years, the AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY has gotten together to analyze and review word usage for the previous 12 months. The beginning of 2010 is no exception, as Allan Metcalf and Grant Barrett (from MacMurray College and the online dictionary Wordnik.com, respectively) have released this year’s WORD OF THE YEAR and WORD OF THE DECADE.
The word of the year? “tweet”, as either a description of the act of using Twitter, or the Twitter message itself.
The word of the decade? “google”, used as a generic verb to search the Internet.
Have you ever had one of those days when something major happens in your life and you come to the sudden realization of OMG – I’M THE ADULT?
Like when you’re in a car accident with a teenage driver and somebody has to remember to take pictures, write down insurance info, and call the cops?
Or when you’re at the mall and you see a young man without a belt on, and his sagging pants are dropped so low that his junk is flapping around for the world to see, and you feel that the only responsible thing to do is to pull the lad aside and tell him that his junk is showing.
Rated R for brief nudity, language, and obscene product placement imagery
Rating: A-
UP IN THE AIR is one of those high-concept films that tend to leave some audience members baffled at whether what they saw was good or not, yet they still leave the theater satisfied that the answer is “yes”… even if they can’t exactly say why that is.
George Clooney is typecast as himself – a charming guy who lives for travel and wearing suits – who is playing a character whose job it is to fly around the country and fire people.