Year: 2010

Congratulations, Fresno! You’re America’s Drunkest City!

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 16, 2010

It wasn’t officially a competition, but we do have a winner (according to the fine folks at MEN’S HEALTH magazine).

By an overwhelming margin, FRESNO, CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN NAMED AMERICA’S DRUNKEST CITY out of 100 entries! Time to celebrate!

Web Watch is sure that you’re asking how Fresno earned this vaulted honor. It was quite easy, actually.

Men’s Health took into account the following pieces of information:

Death rate from alcoholic liver disease
Deaths due to DUI
The number of DUI arrests
The number of admitted binge drinkers in the past month
The severity — or lack thereof — of DUI penalties

Cities were rated on a scale with 1 being the worst in the selected category. The lower your overall score ended up, the higher your city ranked on the “drunkest city” list. Let’s take a look, shall we?

We already know that Fresno, California is America’s Drunkest City — but who were the 99 runners-up?

Tags 10 Things, alcohol, News, survey

shopping Websites

Introducing “My New Pink Button” (sometimes the jokes write themselves)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 15, 2010

Web Watch will refrain from making any commentary about MY NEW PINK BUTTON, a new makeup product proclaiming to add a youthful pinkness to a woman’s Lady Parts.

No – unlike Natalie Bui at the University of Colorado, Web Watch will not say that we are “repulsed” or state that it’s sad that “women have become so self-conscious of their bodies that they feel that even their most intimate parts must be altered and “beautified.”

We will not call My New Pink Button “yet another extreme product to alter women’s bodies to appear more like the porn star ideal“, as Little Miss Brightside has done.

Nor will we call My New Pink Button as the “worst Valentine’s Day Gift, ever“.

No, Web Watch will not do this.

What Web Watch can do is offer the following information, taken straight from the My New Pink Button website, allowing faithful Web Watch readers to form their own opinion on the product.

After all, My New Pink Button wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t some demand for it, right?

Tags medical, nsfw, Party Talk, Relationships, shopping, website

10 Things

“12 Signs That He’s Falling in Love With You” are really “12 Signs You’re On a First Date”

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 14, 2010

For some single women, the biggest question that they can ask as they’re at that short-term/long-term relationship cusp is HOW CAN WE TELL IF HE’S FALLING IN LOVE WITH ME?

Web Watch will ignore the obvious “when he says I Love You first”, because we all know that never happens.

So here are some of the 12 signs that ALL WOMEN’S TALK have come up with:

Tags 10 Things, Relationships

Funny TV Video

Have an embarrassing medical question? Check out EMBARRASSING BODIES (yup, it’s NSFW)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 13, 2010
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Web Watch knows that it’s wrong to laugh at other people’s medical situations.

However, Web Watch can recommend laughing at the questions that can arise from some of the more unusual medical issues that can crop up from time to time.

Because let’s face it – some folks have either some amusing medical problems or they don’t mind asking in public what are normally private conversations that one should have with their personal physician.

The UK’s Channel 4 embraces this philosophy wholeheartedly, to the point of making an Internet television program that serves just that purpose. EMBARRASSING BODIES and EMBARRASSING BODIES LIVE are a TV program and companion website that allows viewers of all shapes and sizes and of all ages and educational backgrounds a platform to ask just those questions — anonymously — that they just feel uncomfortable asking a doctor, family, or friend about.

Tags medical, nsfw, TV, Video

Music

Buy This Album: Peter Gabriel’s SCRATCH MY BACK

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 12, 2010

This week, Peter Gabriel releases a new acoustic album entitled SCRATCH MY BACK, with no guitars or drums.

On the album, Peter covers songs done by other artists. Later, a companion album of Peter Gabriel covers by other artists will be released on a disc entitled I’LL SCRATCH YOURS.

The songs on SCRATCH MY BACK include:

HEROES by David Bowie
THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE by Paul Simon
MIRRORBALL by Elbow
FLUME by Bon Iver
LISTENING WIND by Talking Heads
THE POWER OF THE HEART by Lou Reed
MY BODY IS A CAGE by Arcade Fire
THE BOOK OF LOVE by The Magnetic Fields
I THINK IT’S GOING TO RAIN TODAY by Randy Newman
APRES MOI by Regina Spektor
PHILADELPHIA by Neil Young
STREET SPIRIT by Radiohead

Some of the covers to be on I’LL SCRATCH YOURS have been announced to include the following:

Paul Simon doing BIKO
Stephin Merrit of The Magnetic Fields doing NOT ONE OF US
Randy Newman doing BIG TIME
Tom Yorke of Radiohead doing WALLFLOWER

Tags Music

Gadgets News

Survey says that it’s okay to send texts while in the bathroom

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 11, 2010

Web Watch agrees with our readers that talking on the phone (whether it be via Bluetooth, hand-held cell, or corded landline) is completely inappropriate when done in the bathroom — public or private.

Nobody wants to hear your conversations while in the stall, and nobody at the other end of the conversation wants to hear the bodily functions of either yourself or your neighbors.

This is why Web Watch is thrilled that chip maker Intel decided to research and publish A STUDY ABOUT PROPER TEXTING ETIQUETTE.

Tags gadget, News, Party Talk, survey, texting

Games How To TV

How to win at SURVIVOR or succeed in the real world – it’s all about game theory

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 10, 2010

In a previous post, Web Watch mentioned how GAME THEORY plays an important part in the reality TV show SURVIVOR.

The key to understanding what that means is to know what GAME THEORY is all about. Luckily, Web Watch has found a way to boil it down into some bite-sized chunks for our faithful Web Watch readers.

Tags game, How To, Jeff Probst, reality tv, science, survivor, TV

10 Things food

15 Tips to Remember when Decorating a Cake

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 9, 2010

Duff Goldman of the Food Network’s ACE OF CAKES is known as a cake guy. Web Watch knows he’s also in a band, went to pastry school, and worked at the French Laundry for a little bit… but he’s mainly known for his cakes that he makes with his friends at a little shop called CHARM CITY CAKES in Baltimore. (Hey Geoff! Hey Mary Alice!)

But what if you wanted to make and decorate your own cake and do it in “Ace of Cakes”-style? Believe it or not, even Duff and his crew try to follow some general guidelines and procedures when they’re making their crazy whimsical creations.

Here are some CAKE DECORATING TIPS EVERY CAKE DECORATOR SHOULD KNOW:

Tags 10 Things, food, Food Network