Tag: WEB SITE

Planning lunch or meals with friends can be a royal pain. Nobody can agree on when or where, and, without fail, someone is always forgotten in the shuffle of invite e-mails and text messages. That's where Lunchwalla comes in. The pitch is simple: choose who to invite, select some restaurant options (easier said than done), set the time and day, and hit send. The people you've invited will then ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/07/22/bizarre-virtual-restaurant-air-yakiniku-a-huge-success/'; Proving once and for all that perception is everything, Japanese virtual restaurant Air Yakiniku has become the 29th most searched site on Yahoo!. (Warning: Google Translator does little to help with this one.) Allow us to explain. The virtual Korean BBQ restaurant, originally designed for ...

It should go without saying that we absolutely love the Net. The Web of Intertubes (forget the educational purposes) allows everyone to feel a little bit better about themselves, if only through pointing out other people's foibles, insecurities, and moments of weakness. And then mercilessly making fun of them. Web users constantly post regretful comments that result in firings, arrests, and, ...

The pre-Internet jilted lover was forced to wallow in lonely misery, hoping that friends or family members would listen on the other end of the phone while that spurned, unfortunate soul lamented what went wrong. Now, though, people can overcome their anguish by trumpeting the shortcomings and misdeeds of their exes online for the world to see. And, thankfully so, because break-up stories are ...

It's no big secret that men hate shopping. The experience is a bit like the Goldilocks tale, except there is no "just right" ending. Enter the style-savvy ladies over at Oregon-based Trunk Club. According to TechCrunch, the company has created a concierge-type service for dudes who just want to sit at home, get a box of clothes delivered, and then have pretty ladies provide honest feedback. ...

Since mass, mobile technology is constantly criticized for making the populace dumber, we always enjoy it when microblogging or viral videos fall into the right hands. Jack Black showed us that history could be funny, but the people over at Historical Tweets gave us new perspectives on old stories. Taking anything from classic literature like The Odyssey, to iconic video game moments, to ...

Conventional wisdom tells us that, in our direst economic times, the alcohol business does pretty well. Possibly responding to this phenomenon, and hoping worried citizenry won't crawl into a whiskey bottle, the federal government has now launched the Rethinking Drinking Web site, the Wall Street Journal reports. Operated by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), ...

Does it ever feel like the rich keep getting richer while the poor keep getting poorer? Well, they do, and this isn't helping: namely, a new French Web site that lets children pay for older students to do their homework for them. The site, which goes live on Thursday, is called FaisMesDevoirs.com, which translates to DoMyHomework.com in English (yes, someone already owns the URL). Using the ...

While their men sit in front of financial Web sites sobbing, Wall Street wives and girlfriends are now logging onto their own Web sites and commiserating, according to the London Times. The blog, called Dating a Banker Anonymous, affords "DABA Girls" the opportunity to bemoan the dwindling passions (and allowances) they face in the wake of the economic downturn. Precariously perched between ...

Trying to figure out something unique to give someone for the holidays, but not quite ready to go the arts and crafts route? You could give the gift of subscription services. For the talkative, a Skype subscription might prove useful. $60 a year will get you a phone number for accepting calls. If you spring for unlimited calling in the U.S. and Canada ($2.95 a month) the price of a SkypeIn ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2008/07/17/virus-on-newspaper-sites-may-have-infected-readers-computers/'; Readers of the Seattle Times and Seattle Post Intelligencer Web sites may have unknowingly had their computers infected with a virus, the Times reported on Tuesday. Gabriels, an online ad vendor that hosts advertising for NWAutos and placed ads in the two newspapers and other online ...

Well, it looks like the war is on. The Church of Scientology's attempts to squash circulation of a video of Tom Cruise last week seem to have been the final straw for a group that calls itself "Anonymous." According to a recent report in Wired, the cryptically-named organization recently stated that its main goal is to destroy the leadership of the Church of Scientology. The first public salvo ...