What’s the one topic of conversation that you can always have with a stranger that you can have with your parents?
“HOW’S THE WEATHER?” (or variations to that effect) It’s too warm, cold, wet, dry.
Everyone has an opinion on the weather, what it should be and what it was. It effects pretty much everybody in some manner.
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Geography was one of those subjects in school that you either loved or hated.
For the people who loved geography, have we got a website for you.
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
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How many websites do you visit in a day? Week? Month?
We know, just from you reading this today, that you visit at least one website that we know about. And chances are, you got here after visiting a search engine or a link from another site.
And it’s really hard to guess what the LEAST VISITED WEBSITE IN THE WORLD is, because there are any number of purchased domains that some bloke is using for their own personal storage space rather than serving a public service. For every website that you may have heard of, there are likely thousands that are only known about by the person who purchased the domain name.
The other day, Web Watch shared with you the ultimate list of US brands, as mapped out across the country.
Isn’t it time to use that inspiration in more enjoyable ways? After all, who wants to run out and buy an iconic product if you have no use for it?
The World Atlas of Beer: The Essential Guide to the Beers of the World
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Whenever Web Watch travels around the country, we always try to “go local” whenever possible. We can eat at an Applebee’s or a McDonald’s almost anywhere… but we’ll go out of our way to chow down at an IN-N-OUT BURGER or grab a beer at the WYNKOOP BREWERY because, well, we can’t get that stuff locally.
Well, we could if we put some effort into the project, but you know what we mean. When you travel, you want to be like a native. If that means drinking sweet tea while in the South, or grabbing some BBQ in Texas, having a lobster roll in Maine — well, by golly, that’s what we’re going to do.
From Altoids to Zima:
The Surprising Stories Behind 125 Famous Brand Names
Are you ashamed of where you live, not because of the neighborhood, but because of the name of your city?
How would you like to live in either Blue Ball or Intercourse, Pennsylvania? Cumming, Georgia? Stoner, Colorado? (well, that last one may be more appropriate now than previously, but still…)
Of course you can see a full list of EMBARASSING CITY NAMES at any number of places online…
Were you one of those kids who really excelled at Social Studies in grade school?
Do you sit there and read through the World Almanac every year?
Can you entertain others at a cocktail party with your ability to name every foreign president in alphabetical order?
Yeah, we didn’t think so. Kids who can do that kind of stuff are pretty much dorks.
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Web Watch has traveled all over the world and has made tons of friends.
We could call up folks from Hong Kong to Morocco, and places in-between using that old-fashioned telephone thingie.
Sure, we could use Facebook to reach out to all our friends, but why do something that impersonal when you can reach out and touch someone with a phone call?
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