Sunday, September 17, 2006
Random Facts
This is one of those vintage, oldie-but-goodie emails that have been circling the net for years, and I felt it was worth casting permanently in hardened blogcrete.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(Awesome!)
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig...)
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
(Creepy. But I'm still not over the pig.)
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour.
(Don't try this at home, maybe at work)
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
(Honey, I'm home. What the...?!)
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?)
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)
Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmm.....)
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left- handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(Okay, so that would be a good thing)
A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that. I guess that's why ostriches don't shop at Best Buy)
Starfish have no brains
(I know some people like that too.)
Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(Awesome!)
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig...)
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
(Creepy. But I'm still not over the pig.)
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour.
(Don't try this at home, maybe at work)
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
(Honey, I'm home. What the...?!)
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?)
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)
Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmm.....)
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left- handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(Okay, so that would be a good thing)
A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that. I guess that's why ostriches don't shop at Best Buy)
Starfish have no brains
(I know some people like that too.)
Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
All the news that's fit to search
Google will scan 200 years of news content from Time, NYT, Lexis-Nexus and others, and give users the option to buy full articles. I hope their scanner operators have carpal tunnel protection...
The Ultimate Blog Post
I think this writer at Wired Magazine hit the nail on the head in explaining exactly what a blog is. From the article: "Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you're about as likely to find someone else interested in it."
