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Boosting your metabolism helps you lose weight. Sadly, Twinkies are not the answer

North Beach Diet

One thing Web Watch knows how to do is tell others what they are supposed to do to lose weight.
It’s quite simple – “eat less and exercise more.”  

See how easy it is to say that?  The hard part, as we all know, is actually following through with the advice that we freely give to others.  Web Watch may not practice what we preach, but we’re really not the kind of people we would preach to anyway.

So let’s pretend that you’re already trying to eat a sensible breakfast, healthy lunch, and small portions at dinner.  You’re exercising a little bit every day as best you can, but you haven’t really noticed any real differences yet.

Maybe all you need to do, since you’re doing everything else right, is to kickstart your metabolism a little.  Here are a few suggestions that you can try:

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RealEstalker gives Inside Scoop on Celebrity Homes

Maps to Celebrity Homes

We’ve previously covered how to LOCATE CELEBRITY HOMES ON GOOGLE here on Web Watch, and it seems to have been a hit with a number of Web Watch’s visitors.

So we thought we’d offer another way for tourists to look around and gawk at those places that celebrities call home when the celebrities aren’t invading our living rooms through that magic talking box in the corner.

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Have a question about poop? Just ask Dr Stool…

Web Watch would like to introduce Web Watch readers to Josh Richman and Anish Sheth, MD, who collectively are known as DR STOOL.  (Web Watch will refrain from making any jokes about the two authors meeting while at Brown University, even if it is true.)

Josh and Anish have taken a practical approach to answering all manner of poo-related questions and have released a book entitled WHAT’S YOUR POO TELLING YOU? and a companion piece WHAT’S MY PEE TELLING ME?.

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A New Year’s Resolution: To Stop Washing with Soap

Defense Soap

Every New Year, there are people who make casual New Year’s Resolutions that they hope to keep in order to better themselves (the traditional “stop smoking”, “exercise more”, and “spend more time with loved ones”), and then there are people like Richard Nikoley who believe in making a definitive lifestyle change for overall good.

It seems that Richard has decided to FREE THE ANIMAL within and make some dramatic changes to how he lives his life – things that may seem dramatic to others, that is.

You see, Richard has decided, among other things, to STOP USING SOAP AND SHAMPOO.

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Read This Book: William Poundstone’s PRICELESS – THE MYTH OF FAIR VALUE

Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value

William Poundstone is one of Web Watch’s favorite writers, having written many books around the same theme of exposing various ways that professionals (magicians, street crooks, carnies, casinos, etc) lie, cheat, and steal their way into your wallet.  

Some of Mr Poundstone’s books that you may already be aware of include:

All are great reads and lots of fun.

And now Mr Poundstone adds to his roster with PRICELESS – THE MYTH OF FAIR VALUE AND HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT.  

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How to Tell if a Digital Photo has been Photoshopped (and Other Photoshop Disasters)

How to PhotoshopFrequent Web Watch readers will remember that we have featured PHOTOSHOP DISASTERS a number of times here, and today will continue that laugh-riot known as really, really bad Photoshopped art.

But one question that is often asked of Web Watch is not so much whether it was easy or hard to point out a Photoshop Disaster.  So here are some tips that show HOW TO TELL IF A DIGITAL PHOTO HAS BEEN PHOTOSHOPPED.

Of course, sometimes it just takes an eyeball.  Take for example, the box cover for the Garmin nüvi 765/765T GPS Unit.  The box is a simple white background with a photo of the GPS unit on it (with its reflection underneath), just like every other Garmin boxed item on store shelves.  The difference on this one versus other Garmin products is that the reflection is not an actual reflection, but just a copy of the existing image that has been rotated 180° from the original.  All other Garmin products took that image and mirrored/flipped it.  

In other words, it don’t look right.

Trust us – if Web Watch can see that the image on the Garmin box isn’t quite right, you should be able to notice it as well.  (The product itself?  No problems at all.  Highly recommended.)

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How to tell if the woman across the room is single or not

Mystery MethodYou’re at a crowded bar or party where you don’t know anybody.  You’re interested in using this as an opportunity to find someone new to date, but don’t want to blow your confidence by asking every lady in the room if they’re single or not.

So HOW CAN YOU TELL IF THE WOMAN ACROSS THE ROOM IS SINGLE OR NOT?  Here are some signs to look for:

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Guess what? Your fancy Chinese character tattoo doesn’t say what you think it says.

Essential KanjiSome would say that if you’re one of those people who feel the need to have a tattoo on your arm, neck, lower back, calf, or other seen (or unseen) body part that is not in your native language, then you deserve what you get.

You might have asked for your initials to be displayed in Kanji, but you may end up with something entirely different and not necessarily something that you would like to have.