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Science Websites

Everything you’ve always wanted to know about bird poop

Bird Poop Magnets
Bird Poo Magnets

Here at Web Watch, we’re always making sure that our readers are up to date with all the most important things on the Internet.

Today, we wanted to point out one site that should be at the top of your bookmark list, if only because they recently celebrated POOP WEEK.

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Funny Gadgets Websites

A compilation of Bad Designs

The Design of Everyday Things
The Design of Everyday Things

We’ve all seen braille buttons and signs posted on the drive-up ATM, and many people (unfortunately) then have to mutter to their travelling companions, “hey, look at the braille on the drive-up ATM? How many blind people drive?”

Let’s be honest – the real trick is not that their are braille-labelled buttons on the drive-through ATM, but that the buttons are associated with a display screen.

There’s no braille on the screen, so how would a blind person know which button to select?  Oh, we know there’s an easy answer to this, but Web Watch likes to point it out anyway.  It may be practical to the blind, but to a sighted person, it just looks like bad design.

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Disney Websites

Photographer Ryan Astamendi takes Real-life Disney Princesses photos

Disney's Aladdin Jasmine Deluxe Adult Costume
Disney’s Aladdin – Jasmine Adult Costume

Ryan Astamendi is a professional photographer with an extensive portfolio of work.

One thing that he is becoming known for is his ability to recreate classic Disney Princess animated characters and turn them into real-life models.

Take, for example, the above stock advertising photo for a Jasmine costume from Disney’s Aladdin.  There’s nothing wrong with the photo or the model – it’s doing exactly what the marketing department requested.  If you’re looking for a costume, it’s perfectly adequate… but if you’re looking for the “essence” of the character, you have to look elsewhere.

That’s why what Ryan does is much, much more than just take a photo or two.

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10 Things food Websites

New money-saving tip: get drunk, not broke

Arthur / Arthur 2
Arthur / Arthur 2

Want to save money?

Well, you have to ask yourself about what is one of your biggest expenses that you can’t live without.

That’s right – it’s your liquor and beer.  What’s life if you can’t have a decent drink once in a while?

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10 Things food Websites

New diet tip: get drunk, not fat

Drink This, Not That
Drink This, Not That

David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding, and the rest of the gang at Men’s Health have a great concept that Web Watch wholeheartedly agrees with — if you want to lose weight the easy way, just change what you eat through simple meal replacements.

Like the photo above, you can still have your giant-sized coffee beverage, but the Starbucks version will save you 200 calories and 30 grams of fat.

But let’s face it – their book is full of practical advice when what we really want are the details surrounding the unpublished information on the drinks we really enjoy: beer and liquor.

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10 Things Movies shopping Websites

Want your own personal Hangover? Zach Galifianakis costs $75,000; Ken Jeong $30k

Zach Galifianakis - Hangover poster
Zach Galifianakis, Hangover poster

A lot of people have visited Web Watch looking for information on HOW TO HIRE THE DAN BAND, as seen in the first HANGOVER film.

But that was so two years ago.

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sports Travel Websites

You May Die: The Death Race 24-hour challenge

Death Race 2000
Death Race 2000

Do you have what it takes to survive the Ultimate Racing Challenge?

Sure, you could probably try one of Mark Burnett’s events, whether it be SURVIVOR, the ECO-CHALLENGE, or EXPEDITION IMPOSSIBLE – but those have nothing, and we mean nothing, on the DEATH RACE CHALLENGEthat their website is at the URL YOU MAY DIE should tell you something.

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Book Movies TV Websites

“A Man Goes on a Journey” is every possible plotline known to man

36 Dramatic Situations - Georges Polti
36 Dramatic Situations – Georges Polti

Did you know that every story ever written can be put into one of many overall plot categories?

It’s been said that Shakespeare’s works cover the definitive list of seven plots:

  • Tragedy
  • Comedy
  • Overcoming the monster
  • Voyage and Return
  • Quest
  • Rags to Riches
  • Rebirth

Others, like Georges Polti, have said that there were 36 different dramatic situations, such as:

  • Deliverance
  • Crime
  • Disaster
  • Adultery
  • Obstacles to Love
  • Crimes of Love
  • etc