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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces are enough to kill a small dog.
World's Tallest Tower
Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers hold the title of the tallest buildings in the world. Both the towers reach a total height of 1,483 feet (452 meters) measured from the ground to the tip of the masts. Is has 29 double-deck passenger elevators in each tower and a total of 76 lifts serve the towers. Each tower has 2 million square feet of office area equal to 48 football fields.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
More Amazing Facts!!
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Starfishes haven't got brains.
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
Every year some 50million cars are added to the world’s roads. Car making is now the largest manufacturing industry in the world.
Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York. -- In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap.Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands count under the 10 wealthiest women in the world.
A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
Did you know that the average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil? Amazing fact! Now imagine an eraser that could match it !!!
Weird Information
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Thursday, November 23, 2006
What is it?Father/son riddle
A man while looking at a photograph said, "Brothers and sisters have I none. That man's father is my father's son." Who was the person in the photograph?
|answer| man's son
Date riddle
What happened in 1961 that will not happen again for over 4000 years?
|answer| The year's date reads the same when turned upside down. That will not happen again until 6009.
Numbers riddle
A man wanted to enter an exclusive club but did not know the password that was required. He waited by the door and listened. A club member knocked on the door and the doorman said, "twelve." The member replied, "six " and was let in. A second member came to the door and the doorman said, "six." The member replied, "three" and was let in. The man thought he had heard enough and walked up to the door. The doorman said ,"ten" and the man replied, "five." But he was not let in.
What should have he said?
|answer| Three. The doorman lets in those who answer with the number of letters in the word the doorman says.
The loser wins riddle
A sheik announced that a race would decide which of his two sons would inherit all his wealth. The sons were to ride their camels to a certain distant city. The son whose camel reached the city last would be given all the sheik's wealth.
The two sons set out on the journey. After severals days of aimless wandering, they met and agreed to seek the advice of a wiseman. After listening to the wiseman's advice, the two sons rode the camels as quickly as possible to the designated city.
What was it that the wiseman told the two sons? They did not agree to split the wealth, and their father's decree would be followed.
|answer| The wiseman told the sons to switch camels.
Which first riddle
You are in a cold house in the winter. It is dark. You have one match. There is a candle and there is a wood burning stove. Which do you light first?
|answer| The match.
Drying riddle
What is it that gets wetter when it dries?
|answer| a towel.
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Check out these amazing science facts!
Turtles can live for more than 100 years.
An elephant trunk has no bone but 40,000 muscles.
The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies.
The ant can lift things 10 times its own weight.
If your skin is laid flat it will cover an area of 18 square feet.
A Giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.
Ocean waves can travel as fast as a JET Plane.
The first drawings of a helicopter are nearly 500 years old.
A butterfly warms up its body up to 81 degrees Fahrenheit before flying.
A whale can swim for 3 months without eating.
A human being drinks 16,000 tons of water in a lifetime.
We blink 25 times a minute.
To melt away 1 pound of fat you will need to walk 34 miles.
The star fish is actually not a fish, its an animal. ( phylum : Echinodermate )
Male mosquitoes do not bite, so blame the females next time.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet.
Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.
The small intestine is 7-8 meters long, making it the largest organ inside the human body. The large intestine is only 1-1.5 meters long!
The largest lizard in the world is the Komodo dragon which reaches up to 3 meters and sometimes longer was named because of it's fiery tongue. It is often longer than a car.
Monday, November 13, 2006
*What makes Daniel Barenboim differ from his contemporaries?
Daniel was the only musician in the world who makes a music of peace. His music promotes the unity and peace in the world. He is a man of music that has an orchestra which is made up of different people who came from several countries which unites several human races and nationalities.
*Do you think he is justified on what he was doing?
A statement by the article of Daniel:"No, it's not. The conductor decides on the orchestra, the times, the music etc. But when the orchestra plays and it is either unwilling or unable to play like the conductor wanted, he is totally powerless. And as powerlessness often does, it makes people think they are very powerful. And that's why conductors' egos are so famous."
*If Daniel Barenboim were in the Philippines, what similar issues do you think you would address?
If this happened in the Philippines, the terrorism might be lesser. 'Coz there will be much learnings to all about peace and unity.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
English Tongue Twisters
Luke's duck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. Luke's duck licks lakes. Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes. Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.
How much ground would a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground? A groundhog would hog all the ground he could hog, if a groundhog could hog ground.
How much wood could Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck, if Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood? If Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood, how much wood could and would Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck? Chuck Woods' woodchuck would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as any woodchuck would, if a woodchuck could and would chuck wood.
Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me.My mother's making me marry Mary Mac.Will I always be so Merry when Mary's taking care of me?Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac?
from a song by Carbon Leaf
Mr. Tongue Twister tried to train his tongue to twist and turn, and twit an twat, to learn the letter ""T"".
Pete's pa pete poked to the pea patch to pick a peck of peas for the poor pink pig in the pine hole pig-pen.
She saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure she saw Sherif's shoes on the sofa?
Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.
from Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss
Two tried and true tridents
rudder valve reversals
the cause of some plane crashes
Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye.If cows could fly I'd have a cow pie in my eye.
How many cans can a cannibal nibbleif a cannibal can nibble cans?As many cans as a cannibal can nibbleif a cannibal can nibble cans.
A twister of twists once twisted a twist;A twist that he twisted was a three-twisted twist;If in twisting a twist one twist should untwist,The untwisted twist would untwist the twist.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
IMPORTANCE OF BLOGS IN EDUCATION
Blogs have also played a part in education. In his studies of blogs used in elementary and high schools in the United States, David Huffaker argues that blogs often provide opportunities for educators to advance literacy through storytelling and dialogue. Storytelling and literacy are the foundation of language development, and more so, the foundation of learning. Since the format of blogs is similar to a personal diary, where recounting tales and autobiographical events is customary, blogs provide an arena where self-expression and creativity are encouraged. Its linkages to other bloggers establish the same peer-group relationships found in nonvirtual worlds.
Because blogs are both individualistic and collaborative, they allow self-expression, a place where the author can develop highly personalized content while simultaneously allowing students connection with an online community, for they can comment and give feedback to other bloggers, and they can link to fellow bloggers, creating an interwoven, dynamic organization. In the classroom, students have a personal space to read and write alongside a communal one, where ideas are shared, questions are asked and answered, and social cohesion is developed.
Hence, the flexibility and scalability of blogs quickly emerge. Blogs are not limited to individual classes or even entire schools, resonating the power of building online communities. According to his results, Huffaker argues blogs should used throughout the educational curriculum since they help promote reading and writing, to showcase the work of students or to exchange ideas among students, teachers or school administrators. In sum, blogs exemplify that online content creation is only limited by the creativity of its users.
When discussing about blogs, most people are not aware that there is great variety of genres, and that homogeneity is unheard of in the blogosphere. Just because the interface looks somewhat similar does not mean that the content is as well. In fact, as the blogging phenomenon exploded, its uses and styles have followed suit every inch of the way. Hence, this section samples just a small flavour of what is out there in the blogosphere.
Political Blogs
When discussed in the news, the term blog is often understood to refer to a "political blog." Political blogs may take a number of forms. Often an individual will link to articles from news web sites and post their own comments as well. Others focus on long essays about current political topics. Most news, activism, and issue-based blogs follow the same format. In fact, a recent trend in politics is that candidates are incorporating blogging into their own campaigns, tying blogs into the world of politics. In fact, in the current 2005 Chilean presidential election, the four candidates are currently using their own blogs as part of their campaign mechanisms.
Personal Blogs
The term personal blogs is often used to describe an online diary or journal, such as Xanga. The weblog format of an online diary makes it possible for users without much experience to create, format, and post entries with ease. People often write their day-to-day experiences, complaints, poems, prose, illicit thoughts and more, allowing others to contribute.
Business Blogs
A number of entrepreneurs are establishing blogs to promote their businesses. Often business blogs act as a showcase for entrepreneurs to provide a window into the behind-the-scenes activities at their business, presenting a more personal "face" to the public rather than a cold corporate persona (Wikipedia, 2005). In some cases the blog itself is the core of the business bringing in revenue from advertising, selling products or information.
Topical Blogs
Topical blogs focus on very particular niche. An example is Google Blog, which covers nothing but news about Google. Another example is a soldier blog, also known as a military blog, or "milblog." Many blogs now allow categories, which means a general blog can be reshuffled to become a topical blog at the user's need.
Health Blogs
Blogs written as personal accounts of living with a specific health issue, sharing information about the experience with others who have an interest in that health issue and providing mutual support. A major category of health blogs are medical blogs, which themselves generally fall into two categories. One type is a blog written by a health care professional about his or her work experiences, medical news or other personal thoughts. A more recent trend is a blog that deals with actual patient cases. This latter blog allows other physicians to submit cases to the web site. Physicians can then offer comments or help with the case.
Literary Blogs
A "litblog" as it is sometimes called, is a blog that focuses primarily on the topic of literature. There is a community of litblogs in the blogosphere whose authors cover a variety of subtopics within the realm of literary matters. Litbloggers write about the publishing industry, writing, current fiction, poetry, literary journals, reader's diaries, criticism and genres of literature, including science fiction and mystery, just to name a few.
Travel Blogs
Famous explorers wrote their journeys down on paper. Blogging has opened the forum for everyone, thus allowing modern-day travelers with blogs as a way to share their stories and photos, even while they are traveling around the world.
Research Blogs
An increasing number of scholars and students blog their research notes, combining the traditional scholar's private notebook with public discussion. A related genre is the anonymous professor's blog, where the various issues related to academia are freely discussed.
Legal Blawgs
Blogs by lawyers or law students, which discuss law and legal affairs are often referred to as "blawgs." By extension, the creator of such a blog is a blawger, sometimes spelled blawgger. In fact, legal scholars and celebrities such as Denise Howell and Richard Posner post legal commentaries and case analyses on their own blogs.
Educational Blogs
Students often use blogs as records of their learning while teachers use them as records of what they taught. For example, a teacher can blog a course, recording day-by-day what was taught, including links to internet resources, and specifying what homework students are required to carry out. This application has many advantages: (1) a student can quickly catch-up if they miss a class; (2) the teacher can use the blog as a course plan; and (3) the blog serves as an accurate summary of the course that prospective students or new teachers can refer to.
Collaborative
The collaborative features of blogs can be used to permit several students to contribute to the blog. One excellent example is Justin Hall’s course blog. (Hall is regarded as one of the earliest pioneers of blogging).However, these are but a sample of the blogs that are being used by the online community. There almost a countless, unimaginable variety of other blogs waiting to be read. Forbes Magazine has recently compiled a top-ten list rankings of the best blogs according to different blogging categories.
Thoughtful
Where a personal weblog is primarily concerned with daily life and events, and many topical weblogs focus on some technical topic, weblogs in the "thoughtful" category present an individual's (or a small group's) thoughts on whatever subject comes to hand; not necessarily the latest computer technology or the latest political scandal, but typically less contingent and more philosophical subjects. Thoughtful weblogs of course blur into personal weblogs on one side and topical or political ones on the other, but are distinct enough to constitute a category of their own.
FriendBlog
A FriendBlog is a distributed networked journal on the web, composed of short, frequently updated posts written by friends connected through their similar interests. The author allows his FriendBlog to connect to other FriendBlogs, belonging to friends and acquaintances. This creates a "chain" of blogs.
News
Many weblogs provide a news digest on a certain topic, e.g., Internet in China , baseball, or music with short abstracts/summaries and links to interesting articles in the press. Collaborative (also collective or group) Many weblogs are written by more than one person about a specific topic. Collaborative weblogs can be open to everyone or limited to a group of people. MetaFilter is an example of this type of weblog. Slashdot, whose status as a blog has been debated, nevertheless has a team of editors who approve and post links to technology news stories throughout the day. Although Slashdot does not refer to itself as a weblog, it shares some characteristics with weblogs. A new form of blog involves cooperation between bloggers and traditional media sources, allowing for topics discussed on the air to find legs on the Web, and vice-versa. The first and most prominent example of this form is Lone Star Times.
Legal
Blogs that discuss law and legal affairs are often referred to as blawgs.
Directory
Directory weblogs are useful for web-surfers because they often collect numerous web sites with interesting content in an easy to use and constantly updated format. News-related weblogs can fall into this category or the previous one (political blogs).
Media
Some blogs serve as media watchdogs, reporting on falsehoods or inconsistencies that are presented as facts in the mass media. Many media blogs are focused exclusively on one newspaper or television network.
Corporate
Increasingly, employees of corporations are posting official or semi-official blogs about their work. The employers however, do not always appreciate the endeavor. In January 2005 Joe Gordon was fired from Waterstone's bookshop in Edinburgh, Scotland, because he referred to his boss as an "asshole in sandals." In 2004 Ellen Simonetti, a Delta Air Lines flight attendant, was fired for posing in uniform on her blog. Perhaps the most famous case of all occurred when "Troutgirl" Joyce Park was fired from Friendster because she discussed the rationale behind the website's technology conversion from J2EE to PHP on her blog. Other employers have reacted differently. For instance, when Power Line bloggers were attacked by a Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist, one of the bloggers' employers came to his defense. With the rise in popularity of blogs in 2004 senior management caught on to the trend and by January 2005 several types of organizations, including universities, had started using blogs to communicate with their stakeholders. Many believe this corporate takeover of a tool that was used primarily by Internet enthusiasts will lead to a decrease in the popularity of the medium. Others believe that the use of blogs by organizations will add new voices and vitality to the medium. At any rate, there is little evidence that the growth rate of the blogosphere has slowed. In 2005 the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) published a guide to blog anonymously and safely about work or anything else.
Advice
Many weblogs provide expert advice, such as Microsoft technical knowledge (GaryDev (http://blog.advisor.com/blog/garydev.nsf)) or fiction publishing for women (Four Chicks and a Book (http://www.codexwriters.com/4chicks/)). Religious Some blogs discuss religious topics.
Religious
Religious blogs show the public's points of view on various controversies both in religion and in politics, economics, and life in general.
Formats
Some weblogs specialise in particular forms of presentation, such as images (see web comics), or videos (see videoblog), or on a particular theme, and acronyms have been developed for some of these, such as moblogs (for "mobile" blog).
Audio
One of the types of blog that has undergone rapid expansion since the year 2000 is the MP3 blog, which make audio files available to the user. MP3 blogs are normally targeted at highly specialized musical genres, such as late 60s soul music or early 90s hip-hop or even the latest stuff in electronic dance music genres like grime. However, personal audioblogs are also on the rise (See also Podcasting).
Photography
The increasing ubiquity of digital cameras and broadband connections has made it ever easier to post and share photos on the web. Bloggers have adapted their software to facilitate the publishing of photos, creating what is called a photoblog. Photo sharing sites like Buzznet (http://www.buzznet.com) and Flickr have integrated the typical photo gallery service with photo sharing, blogging and syndication to create a new kind of social software.
Video
In January 2005 the first VloggerCon (http://vloggercon.blogspot.com) was held, catering for a new breed of bloggers, the video blogger. A vlog, or videoblog, is a blog where video is included in blog posts. This is also known as videoblogging.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
There are various forms of blogs, and each differs in the way content is delivered or written.
By media type
A blog comprising videos is called a vlog, one comprising links is called a linklog or one comprising photos is called a photoblog.
By device
Blogs can also be defined by which type of device is used to compose it. A blog written by a mobile device like a mobile phone or PDA is called a moblog.[10]
Genre
Some blogs focus on a particular subject, such as political blogs or travel blogs or legal blogs (often referred to as a blawg).
Legal status of publishers
A blog can be private, as in most cases, or it can be for business purposes. Blogs, either used internally to enhance the communication and culture in a corporation or externally for marketing, branding or PR purposes are called corporate blogs.
Blog Search Engines
Several blog search engines are used to search blog contents (also known as the blogosphere), such as blogdigger, Feedster, and Technorati. Technorati provides current information on both popular searches and tags used to categorize blog postings.
The value of various forms of blog is it can be used as tools for creating on-line communities of people interested in the same subjects – or in each other. On such a “blogsite,” any number of people can describe their thoughts, activities and reactions, and thereby share them with others who participate on the blogsite with them. Since blogs are normally publicly available web sites, some people can simply read them without contributing any thoughts or materials of their own. These are called “lurkers,” and they often outnumber the active “bloggers” who contribute to the blogsite.
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