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How much is your favorite celebrity worth?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 19, 2011

Do you live next door to a celebrity?

Well, let’s assume that you don’t know your neighbors very well. In that case, it’s quite possible that you DO live next door to a celeb and don’t even know it.

That’s because some celebrities like to keep a low-profile when it comes to their personal home life. Web Watch had to pay a visit to a celeb’s house a while back (yeah, you’d recognize their name if we told you who it was), and their home was nestled in between two trailer parks out in the boonies – nice place, but not exactly living the glorified high life from a location viewpoint.

Tags 10 Things, Celebrity, money, Travel, website

Book shopping Travel

Take the 100 Thing Challenge #100TC

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 18, 2011

The 100 Thing Challenge: How I Got Rid of Almost Everything, Remade My Life, and Regained My Soul
The 100 Thing Challenge:
How I Got Rid of Almost Everything, Remade My Life, and Regained My Soul

How much “stuff” do you have?

George Carlin used to joke about needing a “place for your stuff”. Look around – it’s just a bunch of stuff lying around your house, isn’t it?

Stuff you don’t need.

Stuff you can’t even remember why it’s there in the first place.

Stuff you have to decide to leave behind if a flood comes. Stuff you have to recover if you were ever burgled. Stuff you might need to list in a divorce proceeding. Stuff you’ll have to go through once your parents pass away years from now.

Have you ever thought that maybe you have too much stuff?

Tags Book, shopping, Travel

Gadgets How To Internet shopping

How to maximize your gadget shopping dollar

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 17, 2011

Intel Core i7 Processor i7-2600K 3.4GHz 8MB LGA1155 CPU BX80623I72600K
Core i7 Processor i7-2600K 3.4GHz 8MB CPU

Have you purchased a computer lately?

Once you get past the initial “MAC vs Windows” discussion, the choices typically come down to price variations. Web Watch has always said — and it’s been holding true for the past 20 years or so — that the “ideal” computer that any computer nerd would want will cost about $2,000.

You’d be surprised that the $2k number holds up, even in today’s retail environment where a decent home computer can be had for around $500. Note that we said that this was a computer ideal for a computer nerd, not just any machine that would get somebody through the next two years of English class at the local university.

And that’s because that $2000 computer is one that is going to last for a number of years because it has all the bells and whistles for today, and will likely not need to be upgraded anytime soon.

But Web Watch understands that not everyone has $2k in their back pocket. Which brings up that more important question: if you had limited funds with which to buy or outfit a computer, WHAT SHOULD THE MONEY BE SPENT ON?

Continue reading “How to maximize your gadget shopping dollar”

Tags computers, gadget, How To, Internet, shopping

Funny Websites

Celebrity tattoos (you know you want one)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 16, 2011

Tattoo Nation: Portraits of Celebrity Body Art

Do you have any tattoos?

If so, are they the same old ones that everyone else has, such as a tribal armband, butterfly on the hip, or an oriental letter on the back of your neck?

Yeah, you thought getting a tattoo would make you unique – but because you got the same tattoo that everyone else has gotten, you’re really just following the crowd.

Tags art, Celebrity, tattoos, website

10 Things How To

19 ways to save money, simply by changing your bad habits

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 15, 2011

The Thing About Money - Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Share It (Teaching Young People How to Make a Money Plan)
The Thing About Money – Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Share It (Teaching Young People How to Make a Money Plan)

We all like having money. Getting money. Spending money.

Sometimes it feels like saving money takes a bit of work. It does, of course, but there are ways that you may be able to save some money just by changing some of your bad habits. Here are 19 WAYS THAT YOUR LAZINESS IS COSTING YOU MONEY.

Tags 10 Things, How To, money, Save Money

10 Things Funny Movies Music TV

If you can read this, you’re old

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 14, 2011

Over the Hill Party Songs

Web Watch wants you to feel old.

That’s why we get so much amusement out of this list of 40 THINGS TO MAKE YOU FEEL REALLY, REALLY OLD.

It’s like that line from the TOO MUCH JOY song, TRAIN IN VAIN: “The Playboy centerfold is younger than me.. I don’t think I can ever feel the same again...” Yeah, this list of things to make you feel old is kinda like that. Let’s take a look at some of those 40 different items, shall we?

Tags 10 Things, Movies, Music, TV

food Science

The “Clean Plate Club” is a farce

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 13, 2011

Piazzas and Pizzas: Adventures of the Clean Plate Club in Italy

You remember how your parents always used to encourage you to eat all the food on your plate at each meal?

“Eat your food, you want to be a member of the Clean Plate Club!”
“Here comes the airplane – open up the airplane hanger and let it in…”
“If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?”

And the ever-popular, “there are starving children in China/Africa/Arizona who don’t have any food, so you better eat”.

Well, it ends up that our parents were lying to us.

Tags food, parenting, science

Funny Movies Music Websites

Overthinking the Death Star, Ke$ha’s Tik Tok

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 12, 2011

Star Wars Death Star PEZ

You know how you and your buddies all sit around on lazy Sunday afternoons just drinking a few beers and watching the game when one of you comes out with some random-ass deep thought about some TV show or movie or something, and it makes complete total sense to everyone else in the room where everyone says, “yeah, why is that, Dude?” and you all nod your heads in agreement but when it comes the next day nobody remembers what the hell you guys were talking about in the first place?

Then OVERTHINKING IT is a website for you.

Tags Blog, Movies, Music, website