A recent scientific study that covered 10,000 people over 35 years determined that people have, on average, 150 friends at any one moment in time.
So what does this mean to you, faithful Web Watch reader?
You’re right – on the surface, not so much.
Can you name the MOST PLAYED VIDEO GAME OF ALL TIME?
It’s not MS PAC MAN.
It’s not TETRIS.
It’s not even Microsoft Windows’ SOLITAIRE card game (although that one should qualify as the most played video game in the office environment).
Lauren Leto has written about many things, and even has one of those blog-to-book deals that Web Watch is fond of pointing out every occasionally — so when it comes to books and their authors, and what that all means to us, the reader – Web Watch believes that Lauren knows what she is talking about.
Which is why Web Watch would like to point you to a recent posting Lauren made entitled READERS BY AUTHOR, a look at what proclaiming who your favorite author is says about you. And after reading the list, Web Watch can confidentally say that Lauren speaks the truth.
A recent study has been released that took a look at over 32 million passwords that were published onto the Internet after a hacker broke into the ROCKYOU.COM website.
This is the first time that a password study of this magnitude was able to be performed, but it did confirm a few things about users and the passwords they choose: PEOPLE ARE NOT PICKING SECURE PASSWORDS FOR THEIR ONLINE ACCOUNTS.
The most common password found online is typically 12345, although the ROCKYOU data had the most common password being 123456, with nearly 1 percent of the ROCKYOU users being that uncreative. Go figure – that extra digit made it that much harder to hack into the critical ROCKYOU website.
Web Watch openly admits that we grew up with the eight-color box of Crayola crayons.
We don’t know the difference between cyan, sky blue, light blue, purple, blueberry, navy blue, royal blue, denim, or burnt sienna colors.
To us, those all qualify as “blue”, and since they’re all the same color they all should match appropriately to each other. Besides, “jeans” go with everything, right? Right.
And because of our keen fashion sense, Web Watch knows that we can comfortably sit back and mock other people’s fashion choices of their own.
Because Web Watch would never stoop so low as to participate in any of the EIGHT FASHION TRENDS THAT MEN FOLLOW THAT WOMEN HATE.
January 23rd, as everyone knows, is NATIONAL PIE DAY.
And there are all sorts of ways for you to celebrate National Pie Day, including the obvious – such as “bake a pie” or “bring a pie to work”, and the not-so-obvious “have a pie fight” or “pass along pie memories” (whatever that means).
Even restaurants that are self-proclaimed “famous for their pies” have taken to promoting the need to CELEBRATE PIE.
Web Watch hasn’t had a NSFW entry in a while, so we thought we’d throw one in today just because we can.
Have you ever wondered about how much our body parts play into our senses (besides the obvious “smell” and “taste”, of course)? LOOK, TOUCH, and LISTEN are three parts of an art project called FLESHMAP done by Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg.
In each of these three studies, FLESHMAP highlights how and where our bodies are mentioned in song, how they look in abstract, and how we feel when we touch each other — all in unique graphical displays.
Every year approximately 120,000 PEOPLE DIE FROM ACCIDENTS. Here’s some of that breakdown, according to 2006 data from the CDC: