Tag: 10 Things

Picking a good password is important. “Tigger” is not a good password.

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 24, 2010

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.

Tags 10 Things, Disney, facebook, How To, Internet, News, survey, Tigger

10 Things Funny Websites

News Flash: Women secretly hate the fashion choices most men make

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 23, 2010

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.

Tags 10 Things, fashion, Party Talk, Relationships, website

10 Things How To

Boosting your metabolism helps you lose weight. Sadly, Twinkies are not the answer

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 17, 2010

One thing Web Watch knows how to do is tell others what they are supposed to do to lose weight.
It’s quite simple – “eat less and exercise more.”

See how easy it is to say that? The hard part, as we all know, is actually following through with the advice that we freely give to others. Web Watch may not practice what we preach, but we’re really not the kind of people we would preach to anyway.

So let’s pretend that you’re already trying to eat a sensible breakfast, healthy lunch, and small portions at dinner. You’re exercising a little bit every day as best you can, but you haven’t really noticed any real differences yet.

Maybe all you need to do, since you’re doing everything else right, is to kickstart your metabolism a little. Here are a few suggestions that you can try:

Tags 10 Things, diet, How To, medical, science, survey

10 Things Movie Review Movies News

How many of the Top 10 Movie Flops of the past 10 years have YOU seen? (Our count: 5)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 4, 2009

What makes a movie a hit or a miss?

How do we know that a movie is destined to be considered a flop? Is it a film that has absolutely the most horrible reviews ever? Or is it based solely on box office success or failure? What if it is horribly reviewed and bombs at the box office, but finds a new lease on life at midnight screenings or on DVD?

Yahoo News has released their list of the TOP TEN BIGGEST MOVIE FLOPS OF THE DECADE. As they have so nicely pointed out in the article, all such lists are subjective at best. That being said – here are the films that made Yahoo’s list of biggest losers:

Tags 10 Things, Movie Review, Movies, News

10 Things Funny Gambling

The 12 Most Ridiculous Bets of All Time

Post author By web gangsta
Post date November 28, 2009

You have probably seen the movie 21, about the MIT whiz kid blackjack players who figured out how to scam casinos for millions of dollars simply by counting cards and playing as a team.

Regardless of how glitzy the movie made it look, counting cards to make a living is not as easy as it seems.

Sometimes, gamblers need to have fun too – which is where proposition bets come into play. What’s a proposition bet? It’s a side bet of any type, usually of an uncommon event.

For example, people bet on the Super Bowl all the time – whether it be a Super Bowl grid or betting the line in Vegas based on who they think will win, or whether the point spread will be met. A Super Bowl proposition bet are the more obscure items:

The coin toss
Whether there will be a kickoff return for a touchdown
Whether anyone will be heard swearing on the television broadcast

These aren’t necessarily tied to whether a team will win or lose the game, but rather what happens in the events surrounding the Super Bowl. But a proposition bet doesn’t have to revolve around the Super Bowl or sports at all. Sometimes, these bets are a bit more obscure and interesting.

Tags 10 Things, Gambling, poker

10 Things Gadgets TV

You’re kidding – How can the top gadget of this decade NOT be TiVo?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date November 25, 2009
1 Comment on You’re kidding – How can the top gadget of this decade NOT be TiVo?

So PASTE Magazine has come out with their list of the TOP 20 GADGETS OF THE PAST DECADE (2000-2009), and while Web Watch certainly agrees with the sentiment that such a list entails, we seriously question the validity of any such survey that places TiVo anywhere lower than #1.

Tags 10 Things, gadget, Internet, TiVo, TV

10 Things News

A Russian woman gave birth to 69(!) children… and other surprising statistics

Post author By web gangsta
Post date November 19, 2009

A Russian woman set the record for having birthed the most children in her 27 pregnancies: 69. The brood included sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets.

And that’s just the first of 10 SURPRISING SEXUAL STATISTICS that LiveScience has tracked down for those of us at Web Watch. The other nine include these gems:

Tags 10 Things, News, parenting, Party Talk, Relationships

10 Things Music

Can you guess which song Neil Diamond absolutely refuses to sing?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date November 2, 2009

Neil Diamond is one singer who refuses to sing one song that he is quite famous for. Name it. (Web Watch will post that song at the end of this post.)

In the meantime, here is a list of 10 BANDS AND THE SONGS THAT THEY REFUSE TO SING.

Why do they hate these songs so much? Various reasons. They could be bored with the song, not proud of having written it in the first place, or maybe it represents a time in their lives that is no longer relevant in today’s day. Click the link to see the actual reasons given.

Tags 10 Things, Music