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Eating a double-cheeseburger at home is less expensive than buying the $1 version at McDonald’s

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 20, 2010

Web Watch has eaten many fast-food cheeseburgers over the years.

We’ve been to the standards – McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, Hardee’s – and have visited the occasional In-n-Out whenever possible.

But no matter how tasty and convenient for road trips the fast food burger can be, Web Watch will stand by our philosophy that nothing beats a good burger, done right at home.

Trent at The Simple Dollar agrees: he has done the analysis and concluded that IT IS CHEAPER TO BUY THE INGREDIENTS TO MAKE DOUBLE-CHEESEBURGERS AT HOME THAN IT IS TO BUY THEM FOR $1 AT McDONALD’S.

Tags food, mcdonalds, website

10 Things TV Websites

“50 things that every person should learn in life” can be applied to reality TV

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 18, 2010

Esquire's A Man's Guide to Life: The Rules
Esquire’s A Man’s Guide to Life: The Rules

Esquire’s book, A MAN’S GUIDE TO LIFE is just like THE MODERN MAN’S GUIDE TO LIFE or Denis Boyle‘s A MAN’S LIFE: THE COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS – books filled with rules and helpful instructions to let any man prove that he is, in fact, A Man. Web Watch highly recommends offering any of these three books to graduating high school seniors (or even as bar mitzvah gifts, since that is when A Boy Becomes a Man).

Tags 10 Things, Jeff Probst, reality tv, TV, website

Book Funny Websites

Need another laugh for the day? Read John Lindsay’s “Emails from an Asshole”

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 9, 2010

Emails from an Asshole

Everybody needs a good laugh once in a while, even if the laugh ends up coming at someone else’s expense.

This is why Web Watch occasionally wanders over to EMAILS FROM AN ASSHOLE to take a gander on what John Lindsay has cooked up.

Yes, this is another blog-to-book deal, and just like the others, this one is pretty funny.

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Gadgets Websites

Find out how many miles your computer mouse travels in a day

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 8, 2010
1 Comment on Find out how many miles your computer mouse travels in a day

If you’re like Web Watch, you’re constantly using your computer mouse to move that pointer around the screen all day long. (Actually, if you were like Web Watch, you’d long ago learned those useful keyboard shortcuts to keep you from having to use the mouse at all…but that’s another story for another day.)

Still, have you ever wondered HOW MANY MILES YOUR MOUSE MOVES OVER THE COURSE OF A DAY? Of course you have. One study even determined that the average computer mouse moves up to a mile in a single week.

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Disney Funny shopping Websites

The WOOT BAG OF CRAP (aka Bandolier of Carrots) is here!

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 6, 2010

Woot Off Lights

Web Watch likes bargains, and sometimes you end up getting what you pay for.

Take online shopping site WOOT.COM, for example. For those of you who don’t know, woot.com is an online clearinghouse of discount, discontinued, overstock, and occasional new product introductions. The catch is that woot.com only sells one item a day – and once they’re sold out, they’re gone. The bonus – no matter what you buy from woot, shipping is only $5.

So, on occasion when woot is selling phenomenal stuff, like the TIVO SERIES 3 HD DVR (which normally retails for around $400 new) at a woot-tastic price of $169 for a freshly refurbished model – they can sell out relatively quickly, even when users are limited to buying at most three of each sale item.

Then there are the other occasions when woot is selling inexpensive camera tripods for $1 each, and they do everything in their power to get rid of them as fast as possible and still not succeed in putting a dent in the woot inventory before the day is through.

And that latter situation is what brings us to the famous woot-off, because woot needs to do something with the inventory that even they can’t sell.

Tags Disney, shopping, website, woot

Websites

Story Time! Where was your first kiss?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 3, 2010

Lady and the Tramp kiss
Lady and the Tramp

Do you remember anything about your first kiss?

Who it was with? Where it was? How you felt about it? What led up to it? What happened after?

You know, all those goofy details that you’ll want to share with your kids some day…. or you can just post your “first kiss story” at THE EXPERIENCE PROJECT: I REMEMBER MY FIRST KISS.

Tags Relationships, website

Book Disney Funny Websites

Winnie The Pooh gets the ALIEN treatment, and Tigger finds out what Tiggers do best

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 27, 2010
1 Comment on Winnie The Pooh gets the ALIEN treatment, and Tigger finds out what Tiggers do best

The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh

Winnie The Pooh and his pals have had many adventures over the years, and even though Pooh gets top billing most of the time, Web Watch knows that Tigger is the real star of the show.

Others seem to appreciate the timeless Pooh and Tigger stories as well, and every occasionally we will run across some Tigger and Pooh fan fiction – you know, those fan-created stories featuring their favorite characters. Heck, in 2000, the Canadian Medical Association published their own fan fiction featuring the characters in the 100-Acre Wood entitled PATHOLOGY IN THE HUNDRED ACRE WOOD: A NEURODEVELOPENTAL PERSPECTIVE ON A.A. MILNE that the Pooh characters suffered from various mental and psychological illnesses:

Tags Book, Disney, Tigger, website, Winnie the Pooh

shopping Websites

What would you do for $5? Better still, what would you pay $5 for?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 23, 2010

A Five Dollar Bill

Quick – what would you do for $5? What about a million dollars?

Web Watch has made many proposition bets for $1 – because you’d be surprised what people will do for one dollar, and it’s usually worth the price of handing over that bill.

You know what’s worth a $1 payment? Watching someone do a series of cartwheels across the fairway at The Masters tournament. Yes, they earned their money.

Getting back to the original question, as the old joke says, once you’ve identified that someone has a price to do a particular task, the rest is just negotiation.

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