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Prom on a budget: tips for a cheap date

Strapless Prom Dress
Strapless Prom Dress

It’s that time of year again, when young men and women hit their parents up for more money to pay for a prom night that will end up costing more than the parents’ wedding did 18 years earlier.

And prom night isn’t getting any cheaper as the years go on.  That’s why DealTaker has come up these TIPS FOR HAVING A LESS-EXPENSIVE PROM NIGHT:

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Science proves why people are afraid of clowns

Evil Clown
Evil Clown

Yes, many people are afraid of clowns.  They call it “COULROPHOBIA”

Even mentioning the word “clown” can bring some people to tears, as if they’re being tortured by a clown.

An aside — if you have the chance to see Bruce Nauman’s art piece CLOWN TORTURE, do it.  After a while, you’ll be asking yourself, “are the clowns being tortured, or are we being tortured by these clowns?” – just like these three clowns said when they were asked to view the art piece themselves.

Or, like TOO MUCH JOY said in their hit, CLOWNS:  “I hate clowns… and I hate mimes”.

Yeah, clowns can be a little polarizing.

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How much money is Rebecca Black making on YouTube?

YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts
YouTube: An Insider’s Guide to Climbing the Charts

How much money is Rebecca Black making with her YouTube video FRIDAY?  That seems to be the question on everybody’s mind these days, regardless of what they think about the quality of her song.

As WEB WATCH COVERED PREVIOUSLY, YouTube videos can make hundreds of thousands of dollars for their owners.

So when we see reports that Friday has only earned around $45,000 so far, Web Watch begins to question who is right when it comes to calculating payouts and royalty checks for viral YouTube videos.   So let’s take a look at this again, shall we?

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The Top Ten Cities to Find Datable Nerds

01 Lesson: Beautiful Women Prefer Nerds! a Real Man's Guide on How to Find, Date, and Romance the Perfect Woman
01 Lesson: Beautiful Women Prefer Nerds!
a Real Man’s Guide on How to Find, Date, and Romance the Perfect Woman

Some women are not superficial.  They look beyond the initial image a potential date puts out, and see the beauty inside.

Seriously – how many fugly guys do you see that are involved in some relationship or other out there?  That’s exactly our point – there’s SOMEone out there for EVERYone.

And aside from the traditional lack of good looks, smart kids (also known as nerds) are often left behind in the dating scene.

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Some last minute tips for your 2011 NCAA basketball tournament bracket

Wilson NCAA Men's Basketball 2011 Final Four Bracket Basketball
Wilson NCAA Men’s Basketball 2011 Final Four Bracket Basketball

For college basketball fans, it’s the week that matters.  When office workers everywhere stop pretending to do work when filling out their brackets and start pretending to do work while sneaking in a mini-TV to hide under their desks so they don’t miss a minute of CBS’s coverage.

This is one benefit of the switch to digital TV, that you won’t find as many portable TV sets hiding at the office as you used to — but there’s always the Internet, so as long as your network administrator hasn’t blocked access to the streaming video websites, you should be good.

So a few weeks ago, Web Watch shared some TIPS FOR FILLING OUT YOUR 2011 BASKETBALL BRACKET.  Since then, some additional information has come out that we thought we’d share with you. 

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Suggestions for improving your Twitter bios

Eat, Sleep, Tweet
Eat, Sleep, Tweet

Everybody has a Twitter account, right?

Well, now that you have one, you need to follow these TIPS FOR CRAFTING THE BEST, MOST AWESOME TWITTER BIO, cramming all of this into the 140-character limit that Twitter imposes.  You know, like everyone else does.

Here’s a sampling of the 15 tips that ALL Twitter users should follow:

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Famous people who should have just shut up (Charlie Sheen? Not on this list.)

I Wish I Hadn't Said That: The Experts Speak - and Get it Wrong!
I Wish I Hadn’t Said That:
The Experts Speak – and Get it Wrong!

Sometimes, history will tell us, that our visionaries sometimes lack vision.

That’s what Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky have to say in their book, I Wish I Hadn’t Said That: The Experts Speak – and Get it Wrong!  

In other words, just because you are super-smart and know what you’re talking about, it’s possible to blurt out your opinion on a topic and have that thrown back at you years later by people who want to point out how funny you sounded at the time. 

Let’s take a look at some examples:

  • Lee deForest, the inventor of the vacuum tube, said that “To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth–all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.”
  • Kenneth Olsen, founder of Digital Computer Corp: “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home”
  • Advice given to Henry Ford’s lawyer: “The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty – a fad.”
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Reasons why you’re still not married

Funny wedding cake topper
Funny Wedding Cake Topper

If you’re one of these people who are perpetually dating someone – anyone – but still haven’t found The One to get married to, this post is for you.

We all know these forever-single people.  They’re always the fun, party people, but never seem to be able to keep a steady date long enough to get engaged, let alone married.