From Bizarrenews:

• Cap­tain Jean-Luc Picard’s fish was named Livingston.
• Choco­late syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 sec­ond shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, Psy­cho, which actu­ally took 7 days to shoot.
• Don­ald Duck’s mid­dle name is Fauntleroy.
• George Har­ri­son, with “My Sweet Lord,” was the first Bea­tle to have a Num­ber 1 hit sin­gle fol­low­ing the group’s breakup.
• In 1920, 57% of Hol­ly­wood movies billed the female star above the lead­ing man. In 1990, only 18% had the lead­ing lady given top billing.
• In 1969, Mid­night Cow­boy became the first and only X-rated pro­duc­tion to win the Acad­emy Award for Best Pic­ture. (Its rat­ing has since been changed to R.)
• In Disney’s Fan­ta­sia, the Sorcerer’s name is Yen­sid, which is Dis­ney spelled backward.
• Jimi Hen­drix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Mor­ri­son were all 27 years old when they died.
• Mickey Mouse is known as ‘Topolino’ in Italy.
• Movie detec­tive Dirty Harry’s badge num­ber is 2211.

… and the his­tory of Tech­ni­color! 

Ear­lier this evening a Mis­ter Rogers Neigh­bor­hood — Behind the Scenes pro­gram was on TV. At first, it didn’t really appeal to me. This due in part to me being occu­pied (occu­pado) with the com­puter. Then, as soon as I heard the sooth­ing voice of Fred Rogers I was attentive.

I watched Mis­ter Rogers Neigh­bor­hood in the mid-80s and was fas­ci­nated with the con­cept of the show. To split the younger view­ers atten­tion towards a real­is­tic and a make-believe world full of cur­rent events and themes chil­dren face in every­day life. Often, Fred would invite celebri­ties, musi­cians and make trips to a vari­ety of inter­est­ing places and professions.

Most notable was his trip to a crayon man­u­fac­tur­ing fac­tory. Fred inter­viewed the worker at the fac­tory in regards to the process of mak­ing crayons. More specif­i­cally a wax-based sub­stance that is injected into paper.

Mr. Rogers was truly one of a kind. While I real­ize he passed away a few days back and this entry is belated at best, it’s noted that the impor­tance of this is to honor this geni­une per­son with a heart of gold. These kinds of unselfish indi­vid­u­als are hard to come by these days. Espe­cially ones with mes­sages of love, hope and strength.

1928 — 2003 — In Trib­ute to Mr. Fred Rogers
A neigh­bor in all of all hearts.

View a spe­cial Flash trib­ute to Mr. Rogers 

I wish it were this easy in school. Hon­estly, if it were pre­sented as a Simp­sons Alpha­bet instead of the nor­mal, bor­ing A-Z more kids in first grade on up would under­stand their letters.

All teach­ers out there, lis­ten up. Use this as the “NEW” Simp­son­ian Alpha­bet. You’ve heard of the King James Bible? Con­sider this the King Homer Alphabet.

In the words of Apu Nahasapeemapetilan:

“Thank you. Come again.”

URL: View the Simp­sons Alpha­bet 

Not for the squem­ish and cer­tainly not for the non-bug lover, there is a new candy assort­ment in town and Valen­tines Day ready it isn’t. What I’m talk­ing about is this …

Choco­late Roaches. That’s right, you read that wrong. It’s not entirely what you think, trust me. Rather it’s of the pure choco­late vari­ety and not the typ­i­cal image that comes to mind. Yes, an insect dipped into a choco­late sub­stance much like an Ice Cream shop dips the swirled con­fec­tion into a vat of choco­late. Choco­late Roaches are pure 100-percent choco­late in the shape of a roach.

They come in two vari­eties; male and female. Accord­ing to the site, the male has an almond imbed­ded in it’s core (for that authetic crunch) and the female is just solid choco­late. These are choco­late repli­cas of the Pal­metto bug — the unoff­i­cal state bird of South Carolina.

It’s weird, orig­i­nal and some­what dis­gust­ing (depend­ing on who you are). I’m going to put an order for the Mini 6-pack (3 males : 3 females) and review them for their taste, con­sis­tency and authetic crunchness.

Roaches. Mmm-mmm-good.

Go to: http://www.chocroach.com 

I’ve stum­bled upon some­thing extra­or­di­nar­ily unique. The cre­ation of some­thing that mixes ingre­di­ents of inter­ac­tiv­ity and shop­ping. I’m male, so usu­ally the thought of shop­ping resorts to a fre­quent trip to 7-Eleven. You would never see me jump­ing for joy at a cloth­ing store. Why? It’s due to the fact that males are shopopho­bic. That’s right, you heard me right — the fear of shopping.

It’s insane. Yet, it rings true to the fact that we can rely on females to take care of this unwanted nec­ces­sity. At least in cer­tain cases, not all. I hap­pen to like Sam’s Club and Wal­mart. Sim­ple lay­out of the store. You go in and you come out with what you wanted. There are no car­peted sec­tions with posters hang­ing from the ceil­ing depict­ing Hollywood-esque mod­els with the lat­est in clothing.

Nope. Just a ware­house with stuff and not to men­tion the free­bies of food sam­ples and the occas­sional water sample.

How­ever, when it comes to being online and dress­ing up as some­one else — this is essen­tially where I can pre­tend I like shop­ping when in real­ity — I don’t. There.com is an online realm of stuff. That sounds bland but it truly is a blank tem­plate wherein you pro­vide the con­tent. Peo­ple gather around and chat, drive bug­gies and hov­er­boards and shop for the lat­est in mens and wom­ens cloth­ing and styles. You can par­tic­i­pate in con­tests and you might win some money.

I’m a beta tester for this unique online world and it’s been an inter­est­ing trip. I’ve met a few good peo­ple and oth­ers that are too busy hon­ing their hov­er­board skills. It’s weird — to com­bine all these dif­fer­ent ele­ments with avatars (a per­son who rep­re­sents you) and watch it unfold before your very eyes.

It’s just There and to tell you the truth, I like to be There.

For more infor­ma­tion about There.com and to reg­is­ter for beta-testing go to: http://www.there.com