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Improving Disney Shopping, Part 5: Tigger Watch 2011 revisited

Post author By web gangsta
Post date June 4, 2010

Web Watch last had a TIGGER WATCH article almost a year ago, which is plenty of time to have passed to see if Disney has been paying attention and improved the Disney Shopping Experience.

We were prompted to revisit TIGGER WATCH 2011 due to popular Disney blogger JIM HILL’s recent column entitled DISNEY’S GOING BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH WINNIE the POOH. Why? Because there are some things in Jim Hill’s article that just didn’t seem to add up.

Jim Hill quotes Andy Mooney, Chairman of Disney Consumer Products, as saying that Disney has “done a lot of research” regarding the Pooh characters and marketing franchise. Mr Mooney states, ““We talked with a lot of mothers. Who do most of the buying when it comes to Winnie the Pooh merchandise.” He continues, “What we’re really looking to do here is return these characters to their roots. Try and recapture what made them so popular, so desirable in the first place.”

Tags business, D23, Disney, Disney Catalog, Disney Store, shopping, Tigger, Tigger Watch

10 Things Disney Movies

The 26 Most Disturbing Kids Movies Ever Made

Post author By web gangsta
Post date June 3, 2010

Growing up, we all remember being taken to see certain movies with our parents and wondering why they thought that seeing these films would be a good idea.

Web Watch faintly remembers being taken to see a double-feature of THE THREE MUSKETEERS with UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT, and recalls that we really couldn’t follow the plots of either film, let alone understand why we were taken to see them.

But when it comes to kid’s films, Walt Disney once famously said “for every laugh, a tear must fall”, which explains why many Disney films made back in the day contain some vivid, scary imagery or themes that may be a bit heavy for what today are considered to have been – truthfully or not – primarily children’s films. There’s a reason why the attraction at Walt Disney World is entitled SNOW WHITE’S SCARY ADVENTURES… because that Evil Queen reallydoes live up to her name.

Tags 10 Things, Disney, Movies, parenting, Walt Disney World

10 Things Book Internet Websites

According to the AP Stylebook, they are spelled “website” and “e-mail”

Post author By web gangsta
Post date June 2, 2010

The Elements of Style

Proper spelling and pronounciation is a long-standing debate amongst techno-nerds. For example, is a GIF image pronounced “JIF” (like the peanut butter) or “GIF” (rhymes with “gift”)? We usually settle it by saying it both ways in the course of a graphic-related conversation so that nobody feels superior to another.

Spelling, however, can be dictated by a central authority. Most of us are familiar with Merriam Webster, or at least the Scrabble Players Dictionary (where you may not get the definition you’re looking for, but at least you’ll have the word spelled correctly for that triple-word score).

So when the new AP STYLEGUIDE was announced with new words and spellings, you can imagine how excited wordsmiths must feel, as if they received a new toy at Christmastime.

Tags 10 Things, Book, Internet, website

10 Things Music News

The Ultimate List of Worst Earworms Ever Recorded (You’ll Never Guess #1)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date June 1, 2010
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Audio Mashup Construction Kit

Earworms.

They’re those songs in your head that you just can’t get rid of. It happens to everyone — 98% of people have had an earworm at one time or another.

But it took a PhD student at the University of Montreal Department of Psychology – Andréane McNally-Gagnon – to create a study to identify, for once and for all, what THE ABSOLUTE WORST EARWORMS OF ALL TIME ARE.

Tags 10 Things, Music, News, survey

News

News Flash: Even Smokers Don’t Want to Date Other Smokers

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 31, 2010

As we celebrate WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY today, Web Watch would like to point out a RECENT SMOKING-RELATED SURVEY that came out that said that 80% of male smokers surveyed would prefer to date a non-smoker.

Tags holidays, medical, News, Relationships, survey

10 Things

Today’s Fact: 40-50% of American Marriages End in Divorce

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 30, 2010

Guy's Guide to Getting Over a Divorce
Guy’s Guide to Getting Over a Divorce

Sometimes one needs to evaluate their personal relationships based on statistics around us in order to see whether we are above the norm or staying about average.

We all want to be in the top x% of whatever the good ranking is; nobody wants to be “average” or worse. Unless the topic is one such as divorce, in which case the object is to NOT be in the normal range — especially when the range appears to lean towards divorce being the norm.

Sometimes you can’t help it – some marriages are destined to lead to divorce based on established criteria learned from hundreds of thousands of divorces before yours. That’s what led economist Betsey Stevenson to create the DIVORCE CALCULATOR, a simple way to determine the likelihood of your relationship ending in a flurry of court-approved paperwork or not based on education level and financial stability.

Tags 10 Things, Relationships, Wedding

News

When it comes to their hair, 29% of men surveyed are most concerned about dandruff

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 29, 2010

According to a RECENT SURVEY ABOUT HOW MEN FEEL ABOUT THEIR LOOKS done in New Zealand, men are more concerned about the amount of dandruff they have over whether they are suffering from hair loss.

Tags Beauty, hair, News, survey

News shopping

Did You Know? The average pair of underwear contains about 1/10th of a gram of poop

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 28, 2010
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Dirty Underwear
Underwear

According to a study by Charles Gerba – professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona: the AVERAGE PAIR OF UNDERWEAR CONTAINS APPROXIMATELY 1/10th OF A GRAM OF POO.

Gerba says that when you do an entire load of laundry that consists of just underwear, the wash water will contain about 100 million E. coli. That many critters won’t completely wash away when the load is complete, and will remain in the washer to infest the next load of laundry that gets washed.

Tags News, science, shopping, underwear