Archive for January, 2009
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
The Statue of Liberty, or, more formally, Liberty Enlightening the World, was presented to the United States by the people of France in 1886. France intended it to be placed at the entrance of the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota but as the standard shopping mall format hadn't yet ...
Posted in Shameless SEO posts | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Many of us will remember George Mitchell for his famous "Mitchell Reports" on steroid abuse in Major League Baseball. He may also be remembered for the less famous "Tickle Me Elmo Reports" which provided a great service by exposing the dangers of playing with plush red muppets that speak of ...
Posted in Shameless SEO posts | No Comments »
Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Who are some of the most famous Hispanic athletes? Well, I'm a baseball fan so famous major league baseball players are the first ones that come to mind for me. I'm thinking Roberto Clemente, Tony Perez and the more recent Roberto Alomar and Livan Hernandez. And I'm sure there are ...
Posted in Shameless SEO posts | 1 Comment »
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
When I was a kid, oh, maybe younger than 10 years old, I really wanted a pet monkey. I even used my allowance to buy a book called "Monkeys as Pets" at the Northgate Mall in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I also wanted a motorcycle and my mom always said that I ...
Posted in Shameless SEO posts | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
It's a shame that this question gets asked more than the better question, "Who is Jocelyn Crowley?" Well, one answer is that she is Alan Colmes' wife. Another answer is: Monica Crowley's sister. But the more detailed answer is that she is an associate professor in the Edward J. Bloustein ...
Posted in Shameless SEO posts | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Where can you find free church bulletin covers? No one really knows. That's why this gets searched for an estimated 3,200 times a day on the major search engines. But, I did come across one article while reading up on the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I'll paraphrase part ...
Posted in Indiscriminate | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
When is Alyson Stoner's Birthday? It's August 11, 1993. But I can't for the life of me figure out why that is important, or why that exact phrase gets searched for over 1,200 times a day. I didn't even know who she was until I plugged her name into Wikipedia. ...
Posted in Indiscriminate | 1 Comment »
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
Sometimes I love watching the old Godzilla movies. If I ever see one coming on, I'll queue up the TiVo machine to record it, and then play it as background noise when I'm up late at night goofing around on the computer. Then about half way through it I'll wonder ...
Posted in Classic Movies & TV, Indiscriminate | 2 Comments »
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Okay, who the heck is Kim Possible? I had no idea until recently when I was researching keywords to post about and decided to try 'comic' and see what variant keyword phrases were getting a lot of search engine traffic. Surprising to me was that the title of this post, ...
Posted in Indiscriminate | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Who invented Velcro? Henri de Tolouse letrec. Not the crazy painter, but a simple goat herder from Switzerland (see picture of Henri above). Here's how it happened. Back in 1948, he was walking in the woods near his Swiss mountain home when he noticed his fluffy soft pants were covered ...
Posted in Indiscriminate, Miscellaneous Science | No Comments »
