Month: August 2013

The Awkward Years Project

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 7, 2013

Believe it or not, everybody growing up had at least one awkward moment that lives on in ancient photos stored in albums or shoeboxes hidden under a pile of clothes in the back of a closet.

If you think that everyone in school was absolutely perfect at everything – sports, tests, popularity – then your memory of high school is much fuzzier than everyone else’s has been. THE BREAKFAST CLUB did sum it up perfectly in that everyone in school was, at one time or another “a brain, an athlete, a basketcase, a princess”… and maybe a little bit of a criminal.

Awkward
Awkward

Tags Beauty, Blog, photography, school, website

News Science

Study: smartphones cause people to smoke more

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 6, 2013

Are you a smoker?

Do you own a smartphone (such as an iPhone or an Android device)?

Then chances are – there’s a correlation between the two that you haven’t realized.

iPhone case - Monkey Smoking Weed
Monkey Smoking Weed iPhone case

Tags health, medical, smartphone, smoking, technology

Travel

How to tell if an online hotel review is fake

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 5, 2013

If you are a frequent traveller, you may find yourself needing to select your hotel based on a myriad of online travel websites (like Travelocity, TripAdvisor, Expedia, AAA, Yelp, or others) that not only offer you the lowest price for booking your hotel stay, but also offer what should be the best crowdsourced advice on whether that specific hotel will meet – or not meet – your needs.

Travelling for business has one set of needs; travelling for pleasure has another. Travelling with kids? You may need to avoid staying at a high-end hotel if only because the kids won’t appreciate it as much as you would. Travelling alone? Maybe quiet, security and safety are your primary concerns.

And as always, accurate reviews of hotel location in relation to local attractions or transportation is always a help.

Hotel Front Office Management

Tags Hotels, How To, Travel, website

News shopping

Is this the most offensive birthday card ever?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 4, 2013

The other day, Web Watch was browsing through various birthday cards at the local Target, trying to find The Perfect Card for a friend.

When picking out a birthday card, one always has to take into consideration whether the recipient shares the same sense of humor (if you go for a funny card), can appreciate a joke at their aging expense, or if you need to go the safe route and go with a sappy poem or note that more honestly conveys how you really feel about your relationship with that friend.

Friends seldom offer cards to each other – it’s more of a family thing, we believe. With friends, it’s easier to just go out for a drink and celebrate the birthday event with them.

But when your friends live across the country, then sending a card is almost the same thing as being there – especially if you get the sentiment just right.

Amusement Park Death Song
by Wally Pleasant, from the album Wally World

Tags accidents, birthdays, death, shopping, theme parks

Music

The 50 Greatest Live Rock Concerts You Have to See

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 3, 2013

Going to a rock concert is an experience. Going to a GREAT rock concert is an experience you’ll be sharing with others for years – perhaps decades – to come.

We all have our favorite artists, but not all of them know how to give a great performance. Web Watch appreciates The Steve Miller Band, for instance, but didn’t need to hear them perform a 2-hour rendition of the Steve Miller’s Greatest Hits album.

We also recall one start-up band (whose name we will purposefully leave out) that had to fill a 30-minute set… but only had about 15 minutes worth of material. They opened with their hit, they closed with their hit – then, after being told backstage that they “need to get back out there”, finished their set by playing their hit a third time. Almost a text-book example of what the term ONE HIT WONDER really means.

The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll:
The Definitive History of the Most Important Artists and Their Music

Tags 10 Things, Concert, Music, Party Talk

Science

Proof that you can pee in the ocean

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 2, 2013

Web Watch knows that swimming in the ocean isn’t for everyone. If you think about it, you’re swimming in the same water that billions (billions of trillions?) of fish use as their personal bathroom every day.

Have you ever wondered why the ocean water is unusually warm on some days compared to others? It’s not because the sun warms the water — it’s because there’s more fresh pee in your immediate area than normal.

Open Water Swimming Manual: An Expert's Survival Guide for Triathletes and Open Water Swimmers
Open Water Swimming Manual:
An Expert’s Survival Guide for Triathletes and Open Water Swimmers

Tags animals, bathroom, ocean, science, swimming

10 Things

This one thing causes 15% of all child emergency room visits

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 1, 2013

Going to the HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM is never a good time.

There’s no good food, the chairs are uncomfortable, there are germs everywhere… the hospital is not the place that you want to go to if you don’t already have a reason to be there.

So in the guise of helping parents, researchers at the NATIONWIDE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL IN COLUMBUS, OHIO went through thousands of child emergency room records from 2001 to 2009 to see if there were any trends in PREVENTABLE EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS that could be discovered through the data.

The theory is that if parents were aware of why children were going to the emergency room, maybe they could be more aware of those situations and prevent them from occuring in the first place.

Safety 1st Small Object Choking Tester

Hard Candy

Tags 10 Things, health, hospitals, medical, parenting