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The problem with fake service dogs

The other day, Web Watch was in a grocery store where we saw a woman with her chihuahua on a leash walking through the produce section.  The dog was wearing a “service dog vest”, indicating that this dog was specifically trained to assist the disabled in some manner.

And we’ve been seeing more and more of this.  Service dogs appear to be everywhere nowadays.  Have you seen this trend also?

Service Dog Harness
Service Dog Harness

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When it comes to crowdsourced reviews, which websites should you trust?

Whenever Web Watch wants to try a new restaurant in a new city, we turn to our online resources for hints and tips from the locals — because you should always eat where the locals eat.

Usually, the online reviews we find are relatively accurate.  In one place we ate at recently, the review said to avoid the paella.  We should have listened – it really wasn’t that good.

2013 America's Top Restaurants2013 America's Top Restaurants

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How awesome is Kickstarter?

Kickstarter is awesome. Where else can you go when you have an absolutely crazy idea and need to raise some quick capital in order to implement said idea?

Web Watch has a dozen or so ideas that are just waiting for the right time to get them Kickstarted.  That will help pay us back for any of the projects that we have contributed to that may never see the light of day.

But for every singular Kickstarter success, there’s at least one or two (or dozen) more that should never, ever get funded.

The Kickstarter Handbook: Real-Life Success Stories of Artists, Inventors, and Entrepreneurs
The Kickstarter Handbook:
Real-Life Success Stories of Artists, Inventors, and Entrepreneurs

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The Ultimate Birth Announcement

Just like having a baby is a joyful, yet painful process, so can be sending out birth announcements after the event is over.

You’ve spent the better part of nine months (technically) telling people when your little Jellybean of Joy is going to join the party as part of the miracle of birth process — when all you really want to do is take a nap and catch up on some much needed sleep.

It's a Girl Birth Announcement
“It’s a Girl” Football Birth Announcement

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How many languages can you name?

Like you, Web Watch has taken many many years of foreign language classes in school.

Sadly, after five years of Spanish and three years of French, we still can’t read a menu in those fancy restaurants.  Web Watch is not a good example of how to succeed in foreign language studies.

But perhaps you have a better ear for language than we do.

Berlitz Italian Premier
Berlitz Italian Premier

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Top Places NOT to take a Selfie

How many of you have taken a selfie?

(Web Watch will be kind to you: a “selfie” is a self-portrait taken with your digital camera or cellphone. Sometimes done in a mirror, sometimes just done with your arm outstretched as far as it can go.  Remember when cameras had timers, and you’d set your timer and run back into the camera shot?  Yeah, same thing – but for the digital age.)

More interestingly – what prompts you to take a selfie in the first place?

Duck Face Selfie
Duck Face Selfie

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How long is Miley Cyrus’ Tongue?

My now, you’ve probably seen Miley Cyrus’ infamous MTV Video Music Award performance wtih Robin Thicke.

Regardless of what you thought about the quality or content of the performance itself, there is one thing that should have stuck out to you as being a bit of overkill: MILEY CYRUS HAS A LONG TONGUE.

Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
Miley Cyrus – Bangerz

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How Many People are in Space?

You’ve always dreamt of being an astronaut, right?

And today, you actually can go up into space – albeit on a fancy modified airplane.  Or you can experience zero-G… either on a roller-coaster or again, on a fancy modified airplane.

So you’ve sat on your back deck with a beer in your hand and watched the International Space Station zoom by and you’ve got yourself to thinking…

KISS Spaceman Halloween Costume
KISS Spaceman Halloween Costume