Category: Websites

Who wrote the first Chain Letter?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 9, 2010

One thing the Internet makes obsolete that today’s kids will never have the joy to experience is the CHAIN LETTER.

Getting that letter in the mail from a possible stranger, making 3… or 5… or 10 copies, sending the money to the person at the top of the list (while taking their name off) and adding your name to the bottom of the list before sending it out to all your friends…

Yup – CHAIN LETTERS MAY BE ILLEGAL (or not, depending on what you’re sending along), but the Post Office was making their money on each and every stamped envelope that found its way into the postal system.

Today, everybody forwards junk emails around to their entire address book. Sending chain mail has been relegated to a single click and push – all the fun and mystery has been taken out of them… all experiences that today’s youth will most likely never get to have.

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Zombie Fun: How to “Eat Your Face” for Halloween

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 5, 2010

Special Effects Cookbook

Mike Samonek wants you to play with your food.

That’s part of the reason he came up with the SPECIAL EFFECTS COOKBOOK and Special Effects cooking website, as a way to encourage experimentation in the kitchen and having fun while you eat.

Some of the recipes that are featured include:

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Disney TV Websites

Disney theme park-related TV listings – Still waiting on Finding Kraftland

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 4, 2010
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Modern Marvels - Walt Disney World
Modern Marvels – Walt Disney World

You shouldn’t have to guess that Web Watch has “Disney” coded as a search term on one of our TiVos, in order to record the latest television program about any of the Disney-theme parks.

With it, TiVo automatically records anything and everything that it thinks we might be interested in. We’ve seen any number of Food Network-related programming, and practically every airing of The History Channel’s MODERN MARVELS that seems to air about once every two weeks.

And that episode where Full House visits Walt Disney World? Yup – seen that more times than we care to, thanks to TiVo.

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How to Create a Haunted House, and Make Money Doing It

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 2, 2010

Haunted House Halloween Handbook

Web Watch loves Halloween – more for the experience of visiting what could be used as a local movie set at elaborate haunted house attractions rather than the handing out of candy to neighborhood brats. Because those creative individuals who spend all year working on an immersive Halloween experience really deserve kudos for the effort they put into spending a month scaring the hell out of all their guests. One question that Web Watch wanted to figure out the answer to was HOW MUCH MONEY DO HAUNTED HOUSE ATTRACTIONS MAKE EACH YEAR? Is it a profitable business? Using some rough math, Web Watch can guess that the following is a reasonable estimate on haunted house earnings:

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September 20-27 is NO MAKEUP WEEK

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 24, 2010

My First Makeup Bag

Did you know that September 20th through September 27th was NO MAKE-UP WEEK?

That’s right – for these seven days, women around the world are purposefully going out of the house without blush, base, mascara, lipstick, eyeshadow, and other beauty products in order to prove a point: that women prefer other women to wear makeup. (This comes from a study that claims that 80% of women prefer that their female co-workers wear some sort of cosmetics over women who didn’t wear any.)

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10 Things food Websites

True Fact: Artificial vanilla extract is made from coal tar. Yum.

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 23, 2010

Vanilla Extract

TODAY WE FOUND OUT is a website that allows you to submit exactly that – things that you just found out about something.

There are a few rules to what you submit, such as “factually accurate”, “not based on entirely on Wikipedia”, and the common “give credit to your sources” items — but if you truly did learn something interesting today, why not take the opportunity to write about what you now know?

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Food Humor: Why don’t cannibals eat clowns? Because they TASTE funny!

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 19, 2010

Rude Food: The Collected Food Writings of Vir Sanghvi

Because inside every one of us is an eight-year-old kid who like to laugh at fart noices, sometimes just reading a menu or wandering an ethnic grocery store can make you laugh.

Whether it be the PEE COLA or SPOTTED DICK, foods from other countries may taste perfectly fine… but the names of the products will just make you laugh out loud.