Random Fact Finder Prints

"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.

I read on Candorville.com that was rank 29,705th in the world when it comes to attention spans. What? Aren't there only 196 countries? The article didn't just include human countries. It included the various animal kingdoms and the plant republics. Did you know that Americans have an eight-second attention span ... but the goldfish who live in little Lionel Brown's aquarium kingdom at 1492 MLK Way in Candorville have a nine-second attention span? Are you sure you weren't reading a humor column?

The Expert

"Dinosaurs are cool!"

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

'Did you know there's a river in Brazil named after Amazon?'

What's your most popular drink? Why do you want to know? Why base your order on what other people are buying? Don't be a follower. Be your own man. If you're unfamiliar with a drink, ask what's in it and decide for yourself whether that sounds good. Or better yet, live a little. Take a risk. Choose a drink you've never had at random and see where it takes you. You only have one life. Don't live it following in the footsteps of other people. That's kind of harsh. No, it's the name of the drink.

"Is that you talking or Wikipedia?"

The Month of July

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

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

Nearly a third of the earth's life-forms have gone extinct. Cut! Stop with all the facts. This is debate club! But we're using a cable tv talk show format! What should I say? Unsupported opinions

Funky Facts: Elephants.

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

Funky Facts: Turtles.

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

Sense of dread & foreboding Information blackout Illumination Facts known

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.'

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

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

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

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

Did you know a stretched-out intestine can reach all the way to the vending machines> Boy, you learn something new every surgery.