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Posted by robertstevenson on July 2, 2008
Thanks to Kimoto Blogger extraordinaire at CopyWrite for awarding Rob’s Megaphone the ‘Arte y Pico’ Award. Awarded in recognition of support given, comments made and general all-round blogging community spirit, it’s an honor to be recognized
The rules of the Arte y Pico award require me to similarly award five noteworthy blogs, meaning this award
is more viral and link-building, which is only a good thing.
I am very pleased to pay the pico forward. The five blogs to which I am awarding the Arte y Pico award, for their wonderful support and genuine blogtastic spirit are, in no particular order;
1. Paul’s World of Funky Stuff
2. Language For You
3. Outside My Brain
4. Impeccable Items of Intrest
5. Ya-ttitude
The Rules thanks to arteypico.blogspot.com:
Rules:
1) You have to pick 5 blogs that you copnsider deserve this award, creativity, design, interesting material, and also contrubuites to the blogger community, no matter of language.
2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.
3) Each award-winning, has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog thathas given her or him the ward itself.
4) Award-winning and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of “Arte y pico”blog , so everyone will know the origin of this award.
5) To show these rules.
Posted in Interesting stuff, Life | Tagged: award, blog, spirit, support, winners | 3 Comments »
Posted by robertstevenson on June 26, 2008
Only great minds can read this:
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fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a gerat mnid too.
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
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bghourt to you by Rbo’s Mgheanope
(submitted by my son) author unknown.
Posted in Fun stuff, Interesting stuff | Tagged: fun, great, importance, minds, spelling | 14 Comments »
Posted by robertstevenson on June 2, 2008
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter “E”.
No president of the United States was an only child.
Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales.
No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with “MONTH”.
The human brain is 80% water.
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
There are 86,400 seconds in day.
A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
Singapore has only one train station.
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
For more information see funfunnyfacts.com.
Posted in Interesting stuff | Tagged: facts, random, trivia | 3 Comments »
Posted by robertstevenson on June 1, 2008
Do you BC? If you don’t know about BC or you haven’t ventured in for a while, then I implore you to check out Blog Catalog. For thousands of years, bloggers have come together on BC to share, support, laugh, learn, vent, inform, and just plain be. (Okay, probably less than thousands of years, but the rest is true). BC is in fact a gold mine for newbies, veterans and everyone inbetween. (acutally it’s not a mine for gold, but for all things blog it is a treasure chest).
While BC can increase your traffic 100 fold, it isn’t really a treasure chest per se, not in the literal sense. A treasure chest connotes pirates and bounty hunters, and BC doesn’t have those kind of characters. (Well actually, it might). There is an amazing assortment of avatars on BC representing all kinds of wonderful people. These people come from all walks of life and from every corner of the globe (er, every time zone). You might join for the unadulterated boost in traffic to your blog, like I did. But if you’re like me the incredible increase in visitors will soon become secondary as you reap the many other rewards found only on Blog Catalog (hey, I don’t even own stock).
The BC discussion boards are amazing. So far at least 18 billion topics have been discussed (no really - I never exaggerate). The general discussion board is like a townhall meeting (without the townhall). There are threads on support, shameless promotion, general discussion, and how to win the lottery in 4 easy steps (Oops, I don’t really think that one about support is accurate-or maybe it’s the lottery one.) There are also many, many groups you can join to just be with people of similar interests. There are groups for humor, religion, writing, and honoring Rob’s Megaphone; if there’s not a group on a topic you’re interested in - hey, you can start one like I did. (Just ignore that honoring Rob’s Megaphone thing; it was just for Mr. Google - private joke).
You can befriend BC bloggers and follow them, you can join their neighborhood. You can shout at them. You can pass secret notes back and forth too. You can review and be reviewed. You can even download a seven course dinner for free.
I tend to get carried away when I sing the virtues of BC because it is home to the best bloggers in the blogosphere. You don’t have to take my word for it, see for yourself at blogcatalog.com, or for tips, FAQs and answers to all the questions you didn’t even know you had, check out this post right HERE. (Hey, this guy wrote THE book). Tell him Dr. Rob sent you, and you just might win a new car - or better yet, a sincere thank you.
Posted in Fun stuff, Interesting stuff, Thoughts | Tagged: bc, best, blog, blogs, catalog, friends, neighborhood, support, traffic | 12 Comments »
Posted by robertstevenson on May 31, 2008
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Posted by robertstevenson on May 26, 2008
One of my favorite sites, One Cool Site,
is featuring Rob’s Megaphone.
Check out the story HERE
An earlier story about Rob’s Megaphone on “One Cool Site,” can be found HERE.
Posted in Interesting stuff | Tagged: cool, feature, megaphone, One, rob's, Site | 1 Comment »
Posted by robertstevenson on May 3, 2008
Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result, the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.
The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
North Dakota has never had an earthquake.
Alexander Graham Bell (who invented the telephone) also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of 72.
There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
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Posted by robertstevenson on April 30, 2008
April 30, 1976 Wings release “Silly Love Songs”
April 30, 1975 Last U.S. helicopter leaves U.S. embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders
April 30, 1974 President Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings
April 30, 1973 Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al
April 30, 1962 Willie Mays hits 4 HRs
April 30, 1961 1st shuttle flights between Washington D.C., Boston and New York City begin (Eastern)
April 30, 1911 Portugal approves woman suffrage
April 30, 1905 1st official soccer game between Belgium-Netherlands (1-4)
April 30, 1904 Ice cream cone makes its debut
April 30, 1900 U.S. annexes Hawaii
April 30, 1889 George Washington Bridge linking New York City and New Jersey opens
April 30, 1888 Hail stones kills about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi
April 30, 1885 Boston Pops Orchestra forms
April 30, 1812 Eastern Louisiana admitted as 18th U.S. state
April 30, 1808 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
April 30, 1803 U.S. doubles in size through Louisiana Purchase
April 30, 1798 Department of Navy forms
April 30, 1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US
April 30, 1772 John Clais patents 1st scale
April 30, 1725 Emperor Charles VI and King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna
April 30, 1598 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)
April 30, 1562 1st French colonists in US: Jean Ribaut and Hugenots at Parris Is NC
April 30, 1527 England and France sign treaty of Westminster
April 30, 1492 Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet
April 30, 311 Emperor Galerius legal recognizes Christians in the Roman Empire. www.brainyhistory.com
Posted in Interesting stuff | Tagged: April 30, date, historic | 1 Comment »
Posted by robertstevenson on April 25, 2008
According to Illinois state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized language is “American.”
Widow is the only female form in the English language that is shorter than its corresponding male term (widower).
Victor Hugo’s Les Miserable contains one of the longest sentences in the French language 823 words without a period.
There is only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS…. Bookkeeper
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: “indivisibility.”
There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, “therein”: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
There are thirteen languages spoken by more than 100 million people. They are: Mandarin Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Malay-Indonesian, French, Japanese, German, and Urdu.
There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that speak that language.
There are only two sequences of four consecutive letters that can be found in the English language: “rstu” and “mnop.” Examples of each are understudy and gynophobia.
The word “queue” is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
Posted in Interesting stuff | Tagged: facts, random, trivia, useless, words | 3 Comments »
Posted by robertstevenson on April 15, 2008
The word “queue” is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
Of all the words in the English language, the word ’set’ has the most definitions!
What is called a “French kiss” in the English speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France.
“Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Horatio Nelson, one of England’s most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different!
The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
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