Random Fact Finder Mugs

"I didn't find out quite what I wanted about the economics of democracy but I did find an interesting article about the mating habits of the Patagonian Fruit Bat."

The Man Who Knew Way Too Much

"This is a mine of useless information."

Fear/Knowledge

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

Before the Internet

Funky Facts: Football.

Funky Facts: Monkeys.

Reporter #6: television.

Useless information desk at trivia buff convention

Rumors, lies and innuendo.

"Dinosaurs are cool!"

"Perhaps there is such a thing as being too well-informed."

The Month of July

"Is that you talking or Wikipedia?"

Funky Facts: Elephants.

Sense of dread & foreboding Information blackout Illumination Facts known

Funky Facts: Turtles.

"Apparently, over two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water!"

'Washington has wooden teeth? -- how did you find that out?', 'It came out in conversation.'

"I'm suffering the unbearable loneliness of being right on the internet."

Two computers, smaller one labeled DATA, the larger one, HYPE

Google Magazine

'You're so illogical. I can never win an argument with you.'

'About this experiment for generating random numbers - each time you do it, it comes out different.'

"So ants can lift twenty times their body weight. Big deal. Who can't?"

Conspiracy theories

"Sorry, but statistics don't lie: hippopotamus are more dangerous to humans than lions..."

'All this 'history' stuff you teach about - is it based on actual events?'

"We will demonstrate that climate change denial blogs cause further global warming."

'Hey, that line's moving a lot faster!'

'We ran a full DNA test, STR and Mitochondrial analysis... and Bob here 'Googled' it just to make sure.'