Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Scavengerr

1. World's biggest pumpkin weighs an incredible 1502 pounds.
source: http://www.pumpkinnook.com/giants/record.htm
2. Easiest way to contact Grant Hackett wouls be to probably ring him or mail him unfortunately i could not find any info on him whereabouts.
3. An adult Giraffes toungue is 27 inches long.
source: http://www.qeok.com/other/2843-qeok.html
4. An ontology is like a formal specification of a program and a description of the concepts and relationships that can exist for an agent or a community of agents.
source: http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html
5. David Cronenberg's first feature film was called 'shivers' and was also known as "the oarasite murders' and 'they came from within'.
source: http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/11/30/cronenberg/
6. The origianl Hacker's manifesto was written in 1986.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto
7. All phones start with '555' in Hollywood in order to prevent the real subscribers from being harrassed by people trying out the number quoted on the screen as no english place has a name that uses all the three lettlers on the number '5' and thats how numbers used to be given out earlier in the United States.
sources: http://www.omegarobot.com/article/555.html
8. Buses are the cheapest form of transportation to get from Crete to Rhodes.
source: http://www.theplaka.com/travel/getaround.htm
9. The top song in the Austrlian Pop Charts in 1965 was Que Sera Sera by Normie Rowe and The Playboys.
source: http://www.onmc.iinet.net.au/AUST/65.htm
10. Stephen Stockwell played keyboards and vocals for a punk band named 'The Black Assasins".
source: http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm

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