Month: January 2011

How to Get Ahead in Advertising. (hint: listen to your audience)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 15, 2011

How To Get A Head in Advertising
How To Get Ahead in Advertising

Advertising and comedy often go hand-in-hand.

Remember the film HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING? It’s about an advertising exec who ends up with a talking zit on the side of his face. Yeah, it’s worth watching.

Or the Dudley Moore film CRAZY PEOPLE, where ad execs decide to get their advertisements written by people in the looney bin (“Volvo: It’s safe, but boxy!”).

How many times have you looked at the TV or radio during a commercial break and mutter to yourself, “Really? Did they REALLY just say that? Do they think we’re idiots?” Without even knowing what you heard, Web Watch is fairly certain the answer to that rhetorical question will be “yes”.

Tags advertising, business, website

10 Things food Gadgets shopping

Seven must-have kitchen gadgets, and three to avoid

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 14, 2011

A Microplane

Web Watch does enjoy watching Food Network shows like WORST CHEF IN AMERICA, if only because we know that we are certainly not inept in our own kitchen.

We may not make the most amazingly-great tasting or nutritiously well-balanced meals, but we would never starve ourselves or our guests. And it’s all because Web Watch knows our way around a kitchen. Cooking is like driving – the method may not be pretty, but we’ll get you there.

Tags 10 Things, food, gadget, shopping

News

Your horoscope sign may not be what you think it is

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 13, 2011
1 Comment on Your horoscope sign may not be what you think it is

The only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need
The Only Astrology Book You’ll Ever Need

“What’s your sign?”

What has been derided as an overused, cliche’d pick-up line may be of some use now, as ASTRONOMERS IN MINNESOTA HAVE DETERMINED THAT THE HOROSCOPE DATES MAY HAVE SHIFTED.

Tags astrology, News

News

German court rules that employees must wear bras

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 12, 2011

German Party Girl Costume

A court in Germany has ruled that AN EMPLOYER CAN REQUIRE THEIR STAFF TO WEAR BRAS.

Tags bra, News, underwear

10 Things

7 Ideas for a Teen Date – and one way to keep their hands to themselves

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 11, 2011

8 Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter
Eight Simple Rules for Dating my Teenage Daughter

Because others think that Web Watch knows everything, they often turn to us looking for answers to questions that we really wouldn’t think that we would have any basis of expertise in.

Case in point – we were visiting with old friends when their teenage daughter stopped by the kitchen to say hi on her way out the door for a date. As she chatted with everyone, the question came up about where teens go on for a date in today’s environment. We don’t know why everyone thought that we would have an answer to this, and our friend’s daughter wasn’t offering any suggestions herself.

Tags 10 Things, parenting, Relationships

10 Things Websites

The Best 200 Jobs for 2011: from Software Engineer to Roustabout

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 10, 2011

Elvis Presley - Roustabout
Elvis Presley – Roustabout

CareerCast has published their annual list of the BEST 200 JOBS FOR 2011, based on data from the Labor Department, the US Census, and their own research.

They ranked each job in the following categories of topics: Environment, Income, Outlook, Stress and Physical Demands. Within each topic category, a number of different items were evaluated on a numeric range, with lower numbers leading to better overall scores.

For example, a work environment would be judged based on the level of toxicity in the air, the physical nature of the job, or how perilous the job site may be for the employee or others they work with.

Once all the numbers for every area was determined, they were added up, and the lowest overall score wins.

Here are the top scoring jobs, qualifying for the title BEST JOBS FOR 2011:

Tags 10 Things, business, jobs, website

Disney Websites

Muppets with Human Eyes will creep you out

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 9, 2011
1 Comment on Muppets with Human Eyes will creep you out

Muppet Animal on Drums Animal on Drums

Wanna see something weird?

Somebody took the beloved Muppets and Photoshopped human eyes onto their heads.

Tags Dismarks, Disney, muppets, photography, Photoshop, science, website

Movies shopping Websites

Check this site out to see differences between censored and uncensored version of films

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 8, 2011

Obscene, Indecent, Immoral and Offensive: 100+ Years of Censored, Banned, and Controversial Films

Not everyone is a fan of censorship.

But sometimes, movie studios release different versions of films to meet different audience needs. For example, a version of a film shown on an cross-country airplane flight (“this film has been edited for content”) may be cropped differently or have a different audio track than the same film seen on HBO, on DVD, or when downloaded from Netflix.

Sometimes, the studios even release different versions of the films based on actual ratings received from the MPAA — they may sell an R-rated version at Wal-Mart, but an unrated version via Amazon. Or a PG-version in the United States, and an NC-17 version in Europe.

So the question that Web Watch readers should be asking is “how do we go about to find out the differences between all these different versions of films, to be sure that the version we’re watching isn’t censored… or if it is censored, what are we missing?”

Tags censorship, Movies, nsfw, shopping, website