Looking at the statistics we saw earlier, Twitter is still bordering on fad.
If you haven’t seen it, or simply want to watch it again, here it is:
httpv://www.youtube.com/v/sIFYPQjYhv8
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That’s why, as a public service announcement, Web Watch is proud to bring you this LIST OF THINGS TO DO IF CAPTURED BY ALIENS AND ABDUCTED ONTO A FLYING SAUCER OR UFO.
Post Modern Barney has compiled the WORST PLOT SUMMARIES EVER WRITTEN, and summed up a few dozen movies and books into bite-size nuggets.
The twist is that these are not your traditional plot summaries, but rather a synopsis of the more lurid details of the story. Unfortunately, many of the hundreds of commenters on the original post think that the idea is to write about how the story ends. This is not always the case.
I’ll give you the plot summary, all you have to do is guess the name of the story it came from. Click the link for the answers.
The book SLEEP TO BE SEXY, SMART, and SLIM has all sorts of tips on things you need to do to help you fall asleep and stay asleep through the night.
One of the tips that they suggest is to watch what you eat in the hours before you go to sleep, eating only foods that digest quicker.
A study entitled High Glycemic Index Carbohydrate Meals May Shorten Sleep Onset published in the American Journal of Clincal Nutrition agrees with this philosphy, stating that eating a meal with a high glycemic index four hours before you go to sleep can cut your “falling to sleep” time in half by increasing the amount of tryptophan and seratonin your body produces.
You hate that website because they came up with a way to make money off of their site and you haven’t figured out how to do the same thing with yours.
Two new book deals were announced today, both of them are based on websites previously featured here on Web Watch:
The BUSINESS INSIDER is reporting that Maxime Valette and Guillaume Passaglia’s website F*** MY LIFE, which is based on its own French website and book, is going into book form and will be published in July 2009. Not a bad way to turn someone else’s misery into dollars.
To top that off, another website that is based on reader’s submissions – THIS IS WHY YOU’RE FAT, is also getting the book treatment. At the very least, they were upfront about saying that was what they were going to do — upfront to those who bothered to read the fine print, that is.
Remember Rich Hall?
He was the comedian known for the “Sniglets” he presented on Saturday Night Live. A Sniglet is a made-up word that he used to describe something that didn’t already exist in the dictionary… but should.
An example: “bugpedal” – the act of speeding up or slowing down your car in order to use the resulting passing wind to remove a dead bug from the windshield.
But Sniglets are made-up words. A comedy act. Nobody expects to use those terms in the real world.
Except in the real world, people do make up words in their families for everyday use. The remote control is a “clicker”, “remote”, “controller”, “switcher”. A wheeled trash bin is a “herbie curbie”. Some of these terms may be obvious to the casual bystander who overhears a family conversation, but other terms may need some explaining.
FAMILY WORDS: A DICTIONARY OF THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF FAMILIES is a compilation of all those terms that may be familiar to one family, but unheard of elsewhere. Some examples include:
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JFK: A Question of Character
According to a new Nixon biography, a named Kennedy aide is quoted about the following event during the John F Kennedy/ Richard Nixon debates:
When JFK arrived at the hotel, he went to his hotel suite. In order to prepare for his upcoming televised debate with Nixon, he requested a prostitute to be sent up to his room. One of his aides set up the meeting in JFK’s hotel room. JFK came out 15 minutes later, looking flushed and relaxed. This was how he prepared for the debates, and supposedly all of his televised appearances. This is how the book explains that JFK looked so calm and relaxed on television.