It's just a frog. But when you turn the picture to the left, it's the picture of a horse ! Impressive, no ? Click on the picture to see the horse.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Frog or Horse?
It's just a frog. But when you turn the picture to the left, it's the picture of a horse ! Impressive, no ? Click on the picture to see the horse.
What Is It Called?
1. The practice of eating insects is called entomophagy.
Most insects are edible. There are 1,462 recorded species of edible insects. And
they're quite nutritious. For instance, 100 grams of cricket contains only 121
calories, less than half of beef. A cricket contains only 5,5 grams of fat, compared
to 21,2g of beef. Beef contains more protein (23,5g - a cricket 12.9g) but the 100g
of cricket also contains 5,1g of carbohydrates, 75,8 mg calcium, 185,3 mg
phosphorous, 9,5 mg iron, thiamin, riboflavin, and niacin.
2. Mid-men, the male versions of mid-wives, are called accouchers.
3. The working section of a piano is called the action.
4. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
5. The distance that a place holder falls from a glass when it is lifted (you know, place holders sometimes get stuck to the bottom of a cold glass when you lift the
glass) is called a bevemeter.
6. The study of creatures such as Bigfoot, the chupacabra, and the Loch Ness monster is
called cryptozoology. Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans coined the term to describe his
investigations of animals unknown to science.
7. The apparatus used in alcohol distilleries for freeing the spirit from water is
called the dephlegmator.
8. One that speaks two languages - is bilingual - can be said to be diglot.
9. Ducks are never male. The males of the species are called drakes.
10. Shoemakers are commonly called cobblers but correctly speaking a cobbler is a shoe repairmen. A shoemaker is a cordwainer.
11. The device at the intersection of two railroad tracks to permit the wheels and flanges on one track to cross or branch for the other is called a frog.
12. A specific length of thread or yarn according to the type of fiber is called a hank.
For linen, a hank is 274 metres (300 yards); for cotton, it is 768 metres (840 yards).
13. The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
14. The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called a
contrail.
15. A depth of 2 fathoms (3,6 metres) is called a Mark Twain. Originally a fathom was the
space reached by with two arms outstretched.
16. In the early days of film making, people who worked on the sets were called movies.
The films were called potion pictures.
17. The tendency of the leaves or petals of certain plants to assume a different position
at night is called nyctitropism.
18. The back of the human hand is the opisthenar.
19. Someone who uses as few words as possible when speaking is called pauciloquent.
20. People that study fish are called ichthyologists.
21. The pin that holds a hinge together is called a pintle.
22. The gland responsible for producing the hormone that regulates growth is called the pituitary gland. It is the size of a pea.
23. A melody is a group of notes in a certain order that results in a sweet or agreeable sound. An easily remembered melody is called a tune.
24. Compulsive shopping was identified by a German psychiatrist almost a hundred years ago. Clinically it is known as oniomania. Shopaholics are the people who do not suffer from chrematophobia, which is the fear of touching money.
25. In early France the distance a man could walk while smoking one pipeful of tobacco was called a pipee.
26. The central shaft of a bird's feather which bears the vane or web of the feather is called a rachis.
27. The small cup in which an espresso is served is called a demitasse.
28. A philologist studies linguistics and etymology.
29. The hairless area of roughened skin at the tip of a bear's snout is called the rhinarium.
30. Someone who habitually picks their nose is called a rhinotillexomaniac (rhino = nose, tillexis = habit of picking at something, mania = obsession with something)
31. A building in which silence is enforced, like a library or school room, is referred to as a silentium.
32. The ear-splitting sound produced by the high notes of a bagpipe is called a skirl.
33. The fleshy projection above the bill on a turkey is called a snood.
34. People who chase after rare birds are called twitchers.
35. gills of ale and beer is 1 pint, 2 pints = 1 quart, 4 quarts = 1 gallon, 9 gallons = 1 firkin, 2 firkins = 1 kilderkin, 3 kilderkins = 1 hogshead, 2 hogsheads = 1 butt.
Most insects are edible. There are 1,462 recorded species of edible insects. And
they're quite nutritious. For instance, 100 grams of cricket contains only 121
calories, less than half of beef. A cricket contains only 5,5 grams of fat, compared
to 21,2g of beef. Beef contains more protein (23,5g - a cricket 12.9g) but the 100g
of cricket also contains 5,1g of carbohydrates, 75,8 mg calcium, 185,3 mg
phosphorous, 9,5 mg iron, thiamin, riboflavin, and niacin.
2. Mid-men, the male versions of mid-wives, are called accouchers.
3. The working section of a piano is called the action.
4. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
5. The distance that a place holder falls from a glass when it is lifted (you know, place holders sometimes get stuck to the bottom of a cold glass when you lift the
glass) is called a bevemeter.
6. The study of creatures such as Bigfoot, the chupacabra, and the Loch Ness monster is
called cryptozoology. Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans coined the term to describe his
investigations of animals unknown to science.
7. The apparatus used in alcohol distilleries for freeing the spirit from water is
called the dephlegmator.
8. One that speaks two languages - is bilingual - can be said to be diglot.
9. Ducks are never male. The males of the species are called drakes.
10. Shoemakers are commonly called cobblers but correctly speaking a cobbler is a shoe repairmen. A shoemaker is a cordwainer.
11. The device at the intersection of two railroad tracks to permit the wheels and flanges on one track to cross or branch for the other is called a frog.
12. A specific length of thread or yarn according to the type of fiber is called a hank.
For linen, a hank is 274 metres (300 yards); for cotton, it is 768 metres (840 yards).
13. The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
14. The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called a
contrail.
15. A depth of 2 fathoms (3,6 metres) is called a Mark Twain. Originally a fathom was the
space reached by with two arms outstretched.
16. In the early days of film making, people who worked on the sets were called movies.
The films were called potion pictures.
17. The tendency of the leaves or petals of certain plants to assume a different position
at night is called nyctitropism.
18. The back of the human hand is the opisthenar.
19. Someone who uses as few words as possible when speaking is called pauciloquent.
20. People that study fish are called ichthyologists.
21. The pin that holds a hinge together is called a pintle.
22. The gland responsible for producing the hormone that regulates growth is called the pituitary gland. It is the size of a pea.
23. A melody is a group of notes in a certain order that results in a sweet or agreeable sound. An easily remembered melody is called a tune.
24. Compulsive shopping was identified by a German psychiatrist almost a hundred years ago. Clinically it is known as oniomania. Shopaholics are the people who do not suffer from chrematophobia, which is the fear of touching money.
25. In early France the distance a man could walk while smoking one pipeful of tobacco was called a pipee.
26. The central shaft of a bird's feather which bears the vane or web of the feather is called a rachis.
27. The small cup in which an espresso is served is called a demitasse.
28. A philologist studies linguistics and etymology.
29. The hairless area of roughened skin at the tip of a bear's snout is called the rhinarium.
30. Someone who habitually picks their nose is called a rhinotillexomaniac (rhino = nose, tillexis = habit of picking at something, mania = obsession with something)
31. A building in which silence is enforced, like a library or school room, is referred to as a silentium.
32. The ear-splitting sound produced by the high notes of a bagpipe is called a skirl.
33. The fleshy projection above the bill on a turkey is called a snood.
34. People who chase after rare birds are called twitchers.
35. gills of ale and beer is 1 pint, 2 pints = 1 quart, 4 quarts = 1 gallon, 9 gallons = 1 firkin, 2 firkins = 1 kilderkin, 3 kilderkins = 1 hogshead, 2 hogsheads = 1 butt.
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Saturday, August 1, 2009
Real life Spiderman
Real life Spider operate valiantly from 30ft in the field of the air
Real-life Spider operate Jyothi Raj seems to come about glued to the fortification with his amazing aptitude to stick to a vertical outward upside down.
The earlier construction member of staff is normally compared to the comic book superhero by tourists to India's Chitradurga Fort, anywhere he repeatedly performs.
Real life Spider operate valiantly from 30ft in the field of the air Nix sign of a safety harness: Jyothi Raj, 22, dangles himself by the side of a 90-degree slant from the Chitradurga Fort
Real life Spider operate valiantly from 30ft in the field of the air The strength it duty take in favor of Jyothi to connect himself in the field of take is mind-boggling in the role of tourists look on Jyothi, 22, who lives in the field of the south state of Karnataka, naked his incredible climbing aptitude four years in the past while scaling wicker scaffolding widely used in the field of the sub-continent.
He claimed he feels nix phobia in the role of he reaches heights of up to 300ft devoid of using a harness.
Jyoti's dazzling suppleness, which he qualified himself in the same way as watching monkeys climb trees, has been enhanced in the same way as watching stunts from his favourite films.
Real life Spider operate valiantly from 30ft in the field of the air Look, nix hands: Jyothi dangles upside down beyond a congregate of impressed schoolchildren Jyothi claimed his aptitude to place his hands and feet exactly anywhere they be supposed to die shows he was born to climb
He even copies a little of Spider Man's superlative moves, execution upside down and jutting shown by the side of a 90-degree slant to gasps of amazement from the crowd less.
Jyothi claimed he has has never used safety equipment in his climbing, preferring to hone the climbing skills he residential on the infamously perilous building sites of India.
'I naked my aptitude to climb in the field of this method working on the wicker scaffolding whilst I on track in the role of a construction member of staff,' he thought.
'I could climb at an incredible rate without fear.
Real life Spider operate valiantly from 30ft in the field of the air
Jyothi resembles a spider in the role of he scurries down the aspect of the fort - to the amazement of single tourist
'I began to climb in favor of fun by the side of the weekends and came to the famous fort at this point by the side of Chitradurga to entertain the crowds, especially on Sundays.
'I go for to go to see their faces whilst I take myself upside down and hear them holding their breath in favor of my safety.'
Having climbed the walls and shock faces in the field of and around the fort byzantine, Jyothi is burning to test himself and turn out to be recognised in the role of the world's superlative creeping plant.
'These climbs die up to 300ft. They are physically hard and perilous, but I yearn for to move on and climb buildings and mountains,' he thought.
'I yearn for to come about like Alain Robert (the famous French free-climber) and establish my climbing aptitude to the humanity.'
Convinced so as to his climbing aptitude is a gift from the gods, Jyothi thought in the field of four years he has in no way had an accident.
'My aptitude to go to see the traction so as to others can't is verification to me so as to I was born to climb,' he thought.
'My strength and pass rate are the tools so as to backdrop me apart from other climbers.'
Jyothi trains each sunlight hours to recuperate his greater body strength and uses yoga to keep in good condition his flexibility.
He has turn out to be a fixture by the side of Chitradurga and straight away teaches others how to climb.
'I allow a little helpful contacts who I climb with on a regular basis,' he thought. 'They of run make use of safety harnesses, they make not allow my aptitude to move fast before grasp the shock aspect.
'They are my superlative contacts so I would in no way assent to them disc me. It is too perilous.'
Unmarried, Jyothi thought so as to his kind are tolerant of his climbing, believing so as to he is in the field of gorged control by the side of all time.
Real-life Spider operate Jyothi Raj seems to come about glued to the fortification with his amazing aptitude to stick to a vertical outward upside down.
The earlier construction member of staff is normally compared to the comic book superhero by tourists to India's Chitradurga Fort, anywhere he repeatedly performs.
Real life Spider operate valiantly from 30ft in the field of the air Nix sign of a safety harness: Jyothi Raj, 22, dangles himself by the side of a 90-degree slant from the Chitradurga Fort
Real life Spider operate valiantly from 30ft in the field of the air The strength it duty take in favor of Jyothi to connect himself in the field of take is mind-boggling in the role of tourists look on Jyothi, 22, who lives in the field of the south state of Karnataka, naked his incredible climbing aptitude four years in the past while scaling wicker scaffolding widely used in the field of the sub-continent.
He claimed he feels nix phobia in the role of he reaches heights of up to 300ft devoid of using a harness.
Jyoti's dazzling suppleness, which he qualified himself in the same way as watching monkeys climb trees, has been enhanced in the same way as watching stunts from his favourite films.
Real life Spider operate valiantly from 30ft in the field of the air Look, nix hands: Jyothi dangles upside down beyond a congregate of impressed schoolchildren Jyothi claimed his aptitude to place his hands and feet exactly anywhere they be supposed to die shows he was born to climb
He even copies a little of Spider Man's superlative moves, execution upside down and jutting shown by the side of a 90-degree slant to gasps of amazement from the crowd less.
Jyothi claimed he has has never used safety equipment in his climbing, preferring to hone the climbing skills he residential on the infamously perilous building sites of India.
'I naked my aptitude to climb in the field of this method working on the wicker scaffolding whilst I on track in the role of a construction member of staff,' he thought.
'I could climb at an incredible rate without fear.
Real life Spider operate valiantly from 30ft in the field of the air
Jyothi resembles a spider in the role of he scurries down the aspect of the fort - to the amazement of single tourist
'I began to climb in favor of fun by the side of the weekends and came to the famous fort at this point by the side of Chitradurga to entertain the crowds, especially on Sundays.
'I go for to go to see their faces whilst I take myself upside down and hear them holding their breath in favor of my safety.'
Having climbed the walls and shock faces in the field of and around the fort byzantine, Jyothi is burning to test himself and turn out to be recognised in the role of the world's superlative creeping plant.
'These climbs die up to 300ft. They are physically hard and perilous, but I yearn for to move on and climb buildings and mountains,' he thought.
'I yearn for to come about like Alain Robert (the famous French free-climber) and establish my climbing aptitude to the humanity.'
Convinced so as to his climbing aptitude is a gift from the gods, Jyothi thought in the field of four years he has in no way had an accident.
'My aptitude to go to see the traction so as to others can't is verification to me so as to I was born to climb,' he thought.
'My strength and pass rate are the tools so as to backdrop me apart from other climbers.'
Jyothi trains each sunlight hours to recuperate his greater body strength and uses yoga to keep in good condition his flexibility.
He has turn out to be a fixture by the side of Chitradurga and straight away teaches others how to climb.
'I allow a little helpful contacts who I climb with on a regular basis,' he thought. 'They of run make use of safety harnesses, they make not allow my aptitude to move fast before grasp the shock aspect.
'They are my superlative contacts so I would in no way assent to them disc me. It is too perilous.'
Unmarried, Jyothi thought so as to his kind are tolerant of his climbing, believing so as to he is in the field of gorged control by the side of all time.
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Friday, July 31, 2009
CSSPrism: Slick New Site For Editing Your Site’s Theme
Developers working with template site designs often have several CSS files to wrangle — one for the basic layout elements and others with site-specific rules. Sometimes all you need to do to create a new site is change the color scheme, but how do you find all the different color declarations in a large CSS file?
Well, now you don’t have to because developer Ryan Berg created a fantastic little tool named CSSPrism. CSSPrism takes a stylesheet URL and then scans through and displays all the hex colors from the file.
CSSPrism uses the very slick jQuery color picker to make editing your color scheme a snap. You can even export the results as a new stylesheet and drop it into your site. There’s also a handy bookmarklet that will insert links to any site’s linked CSS files just inside the body tag.
As some have already pointed out, the Firefox Web Developer add-on offers similar features in its Information menu (try the View Color Information option), but Berg’s tool has the added color picker and export features that make it well worth a visit.
Head on over to CSSPrism and give it a try. One thing to keep in mind — currently CSSPrism doesn’t do well with compressed stylesheets, so if you have a single line, compressed CSS file you’ll have to feed the source copy through CSSPrism to see the results.
Google Earth Lands on the Moon
Monday, July 20 is the fortieth anniversary of the first manned moon landing. Google has chosen to mark the occassion by releasing a new set of maps for Google Earth that let you browse the surface of the moon.
Google Earth is free software. You’ll need the latest version to explore the moon, so if you don’t already have Google Earth 5.0, download it now. If you already have 5.0, no upgrade is required.
To access the new moon maps, go to the little planet icon drop-down in the Google Earth toolbar and select “Moon.” You’ll notice there are also selectors for Sky and Mars — these are previous enhancements to Google Earth that are also available. Users of Google Maps have also been able to explore the moon, the night sky and Mars in a web browser for some time.
Some awesome metadata comes with Google Earth’s moon maps that makes it worth the download, though. There are interactive tours of the moon’s various sights narrated by Apollo astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Jack Schmitt, 360-degree photo-montages of landing sites, clips from televised footage of the various Apollo missions and overlays of the training maps used by the astronauts. The are also 3-D models of the moon’s terrain, complete with models of the landers, probes, rovers and other artifacts left by humans.
Check out this video featuring Apollo 17 astronaut Jack Schmitt that shows off some of the enhancements.
Mozilla Considers Copying Elements of Chrome For Firefox 4.0
Just a few days after teasing Firefox fans with mockups and design changes for the coming Firefox 3.7, Mozilla is back with more ideas for Firefox 4.0.
As the Mozilla wiki notes, these are merely sketches of what Firefox 4.0 might look like. The point is to throw some ideas against the wall and see what sticks. So far it looks like Mozilla could have a bit of Chrome envy — one of the proposals uses the same tabs-on-top look that Google pioneered with its Chrome browser.
Couple that with the plans to isolate each tab to its own process and Firefox is starting to sound (and possibly look) a bit like Google Chrome. Protected tabs are definitely a good thing (a single page won’t crash your whole browser), but, judging by the discussion on the Mozilla wiki, the tabs-on-top design is somewhat more controversial. Keeping tabs below the menu bar for the default theme and offering an advanced option to move them to the top strikes us as a good compromise.
Other ideas in the screenshot mockups include consolidating the Stop, Refresh, and Go buttons into a single button on the right side of the URL bar. The idea is to save space in the toolbar and to make the button contextual — when you type in the URL bar it would turn green and be a Go button, when the page is loading it changes to a Stop button and when the page is done it would become a refresh button.
The three-in-one button on the right is pretty similar to Safari 4, though the Mozilla mockup makes it much more clearly a button than what Safari offers.
As with the earlier screenshots, the mockups are limited to Windows themes; there’s no hint of what Firefox 4 might look like in Mac OS X or Linux. But fear not Firefox fans, there’s still plenty of time before Firefox 4.0 arrives.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
How You can Start Making Your Living Online
As somewhat of an Internet marketer myself I’m always looking for the good way to make money online. I’ve tried my hand in a lot of the different trades but the only problem is motivating yourself. More often than not internet marketing forces you to learn new skills, talk to different people and keep working even when there’s no end in sight.
Recently however, an amazing Internet opportunity has popped up. Tim Lowe one of the all-time successful Internet marketers is going to open up a membership website. Tim’s estimated online income is about 40 000 – 100 000 USD per month. I can’t imagine what doors are going to be opened once he opens up his site to the general public, and I’m just glad that I’ll 
be in on this huge insider secret.
This membership website is designed especially for people who need to make money on the Internet. The website is coming up shortly but because Tim Lowe is in such demand (currently in the middle of the 2009 joint workshop) he already started a priority waiting list.
Since his main membership site isn’t up all we can rely on is his temporary site at simplynoexcuses.com for information. To give you the gist of things Tim Lowe membership site is offering everything you need to start making money online including:
- A new professional website every month
- 100 of products you can choose from to promote
- Updated videos and training resources that teach you the success strategies and techniques
- And much more……
http://www.simplynoexcuses.com
Imagine sitting on a warm beach just watching the waves gently crash against the shore, while sipping on ice cold drinks and scrunching up finely ground up sand with your toes. This could be you because Tim’s offering you the chance to make enormous amounts of money. Don’t let this pass you by!
Conclusion
Tim’s offering to build an Internet home business for you each month and you will not be working alone. Tim and his team will guide you and give all the support you need to get started on the Internet. As spots are limited in the membership site, if you are interested in this opportunity, sign up for his priority waiting list now to guarantee you get a spot when the site opened.
-http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com/
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