Just a friendly reminder that today, April 15th, is SAME SEX KISS DAY at your local Starbucks.
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The British Gossip website HOLY MOLY has come up with their own CALCULATION TO DETERMINE A RATING FOR HOW NARCISSTIC A CELEBRITY IS BY USING TWITTER.
When looking at a celebrity’s Twitter account, the celebrity is labeled as a “narcissitic tool” if they have more followers than they are following others.
The equation is
100-((100/# of followers) * # of following)
Using this equation, here are the top 20, along with their Twitter Narcissism rating. For those interested, Holy Moly has included a handy spreadsheet for you to see their full list, as well as add your own friends and family.
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Science says: It’s Good to Marry Your Cousin
Everyone should be marrying their cousin. So says science-oriented magazine Scientific American in an article entitled WHEN INCEST IS BEST: KISSING COUSINS HAVE MORE KIN.
Scientists studied marriage and birth records for 150,000 Icelandic couples – from 1800 through 1965 – to see if there was any connection between the relationship of the couple getting married versus the number of children the couple had.
What the scientists found was that marrying your third cousin offered the best chance of having a baby.
Women born between 1800-1824 who mated with their third cousin had more children (4.04) and grandchildren (9.17) than women who had children with someone who was related no closer than an eight cousin (with 3.34 children and 7.31 grandchildren). Similar birth differences held up as much as 100 years later, even when families were having fewer children.
The reasoning has to do with genetics, where close relatives can share genes that would reduce the chance of a miscarriage. The study showed that a person’s third and fourth cousins would share enough common genes to counterbalance any inbreeding disadvantages.
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How Much Money do Strip Clubs Make?
A recent article about HOW THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN IS RESULTING IN MORE WOMEN MAKING “STRIPPER” A CAREER CHOICE, shared these interesting facts:
- New York City and Miami dancers at Rick’s Caberet, noted for being more upscale gentlemen’s clubs, pull in between $100,000 and $300,000 a year. In cash.
- Most strip clubs have profit margins of about 50%.
All you need to do is learn some new 2- and 3-letter words.
In what appears to be a bad case of timing from their reporters, The Wall Street Journal finally reported this week of a dramatic change in the world of Scrabble that took place in October 2005:
THE ADDITION OF NEW WORDS TO THE SCRABBLE DICTIONARY.
Words such as “ZA”, “QI”, and “ZZZ” were added recently, according to the WSJ. Apparently, “recently” means “in the past 4-5 years” to them.
Regardless, here at Web Watch we believe in making sure that you are not sucked into the same vortex of bad Scrabble-playing that the WSJ would lead you down if you had to wait a few years to discover that there had been a Scrabble dictionary update. So here are the list of handy two- and three- letter words that you should have at the ready the next time you need to impress your Scrabble-playing friends…along with the unexpected WSJ followup:
Sure, it may not even be scheduled to air yet, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t set a TiVo reminder to record HEAD RUSH on Cartoon Network when it airs later this year (along with the rest of the new Cartoon Network shows planned for 2009, which – oddly enough – aren’t all cartoons).
What’s HEAD RUSH?
Only the coolest game show idea to come along in a long, long time:
Nine Inch Nails’ lead singer Trent Reznor has not been shy in the past about airing his opinion about other musicians or the music industry in general. More often than not, he’s been the one willing to talk about the elephant in the room that everyone else ignores.
So it should come as no surprise to anyone – let alone Nine Inch Nails fans – when TRENT POSTED A MESSAGE ON THE OFFICIAL NINE INCH NAILS MESSAGE BOARD explaining exactly what happens when NIN goes on tour with regards to what they do to minimize ticket scalping. As part of Trent’s post, he includes a number of links to ticket scalping-related news articles that offer additional insight to the problem.
It’s refreshing to hear a band’s opinion of the whole mess. Here’s what Trent has to say about how the whole thing works:
If you do not watch Jon Stewart on The Daily Show on a regular basis, you will miss out on the occasional must-see gem of an interview.
It’s not often that you will find this type of good, informative, well-researched, engaging interview on what is, in essence, a comedy program. But Jon’s interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer is absolutely fantastic.
It is said that more college-age kids and young adults get their new and information from The Daily Show than from traditional media outlets. With interviews like this, I can certainly see why.
Well done, Jon. Keep up the good work.
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