Who is Alan Colmes wife?

January 21st, 2009

Jocelyn Elise Crowley

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 School of Planning and Public Policy, at Rutgers University, where she is also affiliated with the Department of Women’s Studies.

Below is an excerpt from her bio at jocelyncrowley.com. Interesting to note is that nowhere in here does she mention that her husband is Fox News’ beloved commentator Alan Colmes. Maybe he’s not so beloved in truly academic circles.

From her bio: Jocelyn Elise Crowley is an Associate Professor of Public Policy, a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Department of Political Science, and an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. She has written extensively on the topic of family policy, including her book The Politics of Child Support in America (2003). Professor Crowley has also written on the subject of voluntary associations in the United States, and has recently finished a book related to the fathers’ rights movement in America that was published by Cornell University Press in 2008.

That’s all. Posted by mo for the best selling educational toys at Atomic Elephant Toy.

Where can i find free church bulletin covers?

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 of it here.

“There are a few online sources for free church bulletin covers. These sites require that the covers only be used for your church or mostly non-profit organization such as turkey shoots or golf fundraisers for rich republicans. Many of these sites also include instructions on how to utilize the bulletin covers. Most people use them for church.”

So if you’re still looking for free church bulletin covers, click here. And also, check out my store for science educational toys after you’re done making your free church bulletins.

When is Alyson Stoner’s Birthday

January 20th, 2009

Alyson StonerWhen 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. It turns out she’s quite famous. Here’s what our favorite pedia says about her (mostly):

Alyson Rae Stoner is an American child actress, singer, dancer and Rubik’s Cube expert. She is best known for her roles in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (as Max), Diff’rent Strokes (as the voice of Arnold’s black goldfish), Cheaper By The Dozen, Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (as Sarah Baker), and Two and a Half Men (as Charlie’s illegitimate housekeeper). She has also been a background dancer for the Gatlinburg Riverdancing Grizzly Bears.

That’s it. I don’t know much about her. One thing I do know is that she’s never bought any of the best selling toys from my science and educational toy store. I wish she would. It sounds like she’s made a lot of money with this acting thing.

Godzilla Monster Gallery

January 18th, 2009

Godzilla eating a train

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 what the Hell I was thinking and realize how bad it is. Maybe I need to study the Godzilla phenomenon a little more… maybe then I’ll understand the real lure. Either way, the still  pictures of the monster can be pretty cool to look at. Here are a few more.

Gorosaurus

 Gorosaurus (not sure what year this is from).

Mechagodzilla

 Mechagodzilla (you’ve got to love this guy).

 Rodan

Rodan (one of Godzilla’s arch enemies, 1964).

That’s all for tonight. Maybe I’ll create a directory for posts about Godzilla. But then again,maybe I won’t. I mainly created this post because the term godzilla monster gallery gets searched for almost a thousand times a day and I’m just trying to pick up some of that traffic for this silly blog. I have no idea why it gets searched for that much. If you’re reading this, I really want you to check out my store for some of the best science toys around.

Free Kim Possible Sex Comic

January 17th, 2009

Kim Possible

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, ‘Free Kim Possible Sex Comic’ was getting almost 5,000 searches a day. Another surprising keyword was ‘adult comics’ with about 3,600 searches a day. And then finally, the single word ‘comic’ which gets searched for about 3,400 times a day. So more people search for the title of this post than search for the generic keyword ‘comic.’ This is pretty interesting. Anyway, I’ve done a little research on the strange but interesting phenomena that is Kim Possible and have created a couple of pages for those of you who arrived here.

Kim Possible Sex Comic Links  Warning: explicit content

Okay, so the above post and link was really created to generate some of the wayward traffic for this topic. If you arrived here for less nefarious reasons and really want to learn more about Kim Possible, I did create a quick FAQ below and there are a couple of legitimate links on the page above. Either way, why don’t you take a break from your Kim Possible searching (perverted or otherwise) and check out some educational toys at my science and education toy store.

Kim Possible Frequently Asked Questions

Posted by mo, for promoting shameless SEO plugs and trying to create traffic for my legitimate site selling educational and science toys.

Who invented Velcro?

January 15th, 2009

velcro sheep herder

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 with burrs.

“Hmmmmm…” he said to himself. “I have an idea. I shall invent a fastener made out of burrs and soft pants.” He then took some Super Glue and glued these burrs to anything he wanted to fasten. Forks and spoons. Hats. Bologna Sandwiches, etc. Now before heading off to work in the fields, he could attach his hat, lunch and eating utensils to his trousers.

His good friend, another shepherd called George de Mestral, noticed this strange way of carrying stuff and inquired about this curious invention. Henri told George all about it and George, being the smarter guy, got out his microscope and noticed the clever way nature had designed the burrs. He decided to rip off mother nature (and his dumber friend) and came up with a cloth with soft loops and another strip of cloth with small hooks. He decided to call it “Super Hooky Loopy Stuff” and another, even more clever friend said you should call it Velour-crochet since that’s kind of what it was. George said, “That’s a mouth full so I’ll just call it Velcro for short.”

And there you have it. It was patented in 1955 and George made enough money to give away all his sheep and retire to Aruba where he still lives and enjoys scuba diving. He is 113 years old. Now check out my store for cool science toys at Atomic Elephant Toy.

Top 10 Richest Actors of 2008

January 15th, 2009

Will Smith ThumbnailOkay, it’s time for another fun top 10 list. Tonight I’m going to post about the top 10 best paid actors of 2008. My guesses (before looking at the list) are: Will Smith (he’s just a superstar and I’m sure he made a lot of money with ‘Hancock’ and maybe ‘I am Legend’… was that in 2008?). Next I’m going to say Will Farrell– I think he had a couple of hits last year. Now I’m really drawing a blank. Who else? George Clooney maybe. Brad Pitt? Oh yeah, Harrison Ford with the latest Indiana Jones movie. I’m sure that made him a lot of money. Okay, I’m tired of guessing. Here are the results…

1. Will Smith, $80 million
2. Johnny Depp, $72 million
3. Eddie Murphy, $55 million
4. Mike Myers, $55 million
5. Leonardo DiCaprio, $45 million
6. Bruce Willis, $41 million
7. Ben Stiller, $40 million
8. Nicolas Cage, $38 million
9. Will Ferrell, $31 million
10. Adam Sandler, $30 million

Well now, I guess I did a terrible job of guessing tonight. Aside from the obvious #1 earner, I totally missed numbers two through eight. I forgot all about Johnny Depp and the latest Pirates movie. And Eddie Murphy? As much as I love him, I can’t for the life of me think of a movie he put out in 2008. Likewise for Willis, Stiller and Cage. I would have guessed Sandler to be in the top 10 if I had remembered him. And where the Hell is Gary Coleman? I would have thought that the royalty checks from Diff’rent Strokes alone would have kept him in the top three. That’s all for tonight.

Gary Coleman - Stud

Posted by Mo for the best selling toys and my other hobby at Atomic Elephant Toy.

Oscar Gamble, Afro Extraordinaire

December 14th, 2008

Oscar GambleNot many people except some of the more die-hard baseball fans of the 70s and 80s will remember Oscar Gamble. I vaguely remember him but when I came across this outstanding image of one of his baseball cards I totally remembered why. It was the afro. This may have been common for some of the 70s basketball players, but was fairly rare for baseball of any era. It’s kind of a shame that Oscar is most notably remembered for this one aspect of his character. He actually had a fairly accomplished career over seventeen seasons with seven different teams (twice each with the White Sox and Yankees). He had 200 career homeruns with 31 in 1977. Most people will remember 1977 as the year Reggie Jackson became Mr. October, but Reggie only hit one more homerun than Oscar that year. Of course, Oscar didn’t hit three on three consecutive pitches in a World Series game, but he had a solid year nonetheless. After a few injuries in ‘78, he came back and hit .358 in ‘79 with the Rangers and Yankees. This was the highest average in the league but he didn’t have quite enough at bats to qualify for the title.

If you’re looking for an interesting story about an interesting character, do a quick search on Oscar Gamble. Wikipedia has a nice writeup and you can find several images of his noteworthy afro out there.

Posted by admin for the best selling science toys at Atomic Elephant Toy.

Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965)

December 3rd, 2008

Holy cow this is a funny movie. I was planning on writing a review of it as it’s been sitting unwatched on my TiVo for a couple of months and I’m just now starting to watch it. I just don’t know if I’m going to be able to finish it though.

It does have its own Wikipedia page. The following is a snippet: “All of the women on the planet Mars have died in an atomic war, except for Martian Princess Marcuzan (Marilyn Hanold). Marcuzan and her right hand man, Dr. Nadir (Lou Cutell), decide they will travel to Earth and steal all of the women on the planet in order to continue the Martian race. The Martians shoot down a space capsule manned by the android Captain Frank Saunders (Robert Reilly), causing it to crash in Puerto Rico. Frankenstein’s electronic brain has been damaged and he proceeds to terrorize the island. A subplot involves the martians abducting bikini clad women.”

On another note, I just partnered with Hooked on Science and we’re getting some nice publicity for the toy store. The scientist running that site does lots of experiments with schools and kids on local TV stations and he’s offered to review some of our best selling science toys for Christmas 2008. It looks like it’s going to be a nice partnership. That’s all for tonight. Cheers…

How do spammers find my blogs?

November 9th, 2008

Some of my blogs get dozens or more spam comments a day. Is it that easy for spamb0ts to find posts and try to get their crappy ad comments actually listed? And an even more interesting question- does it ever work? Some of my blogs don’t get touched for several weeks or maybe a month or more in between posts. Yes, I’m pretty lazy sometimes. Or just busy. I logged into one blog last night and there were over 1,000 comments “waiting for moderation.” All with links to some OTC drug or cheap car insurance.

Do enough blogs out there let these comments go through that it’s worth the time for spammers to even try? I’ve thought about just opening a blog to let all comments post automatically and see what happens. I wonder if spambots talk to other spambots and tell them, “Hey, we found one that will actually let comments go through. It’s over here. Follow me!”

Okay, gotta run. Just a random ramble today. And as always, check out my store for the best selling toys of 2008. Great stuff!