Archive for May, 2007

Lie of the Day #206

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

More people in the United States are in rubber band related deaths annually than the number of ants in a typical fire ant mound.

Fact #105

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Microwaves operate at a frequency of 2.45 GHz.

Lie of the Day #205

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

By tapping the proper points on a coconut in a specific sequence, you can enable it as a lighter-than-air mini-blimp.  Four of these coconuts are powerful enough to lift a cow 100 feet into the air.

Fact #104

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

The first batteries in laptop computers were NickelCadmium (NiCad). Which had a life span of about two hours.

Lie of the Day #204

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

It’s a little known fact that post office boxes are all refrigerated.  In fact, if you were to place a open glass of milk in your P.O. box, you could leave it there for nearly 3 months before anyone notices it going bad.

Fact #103

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

The sun is too small to ever go supernova. It’s hypothesized it will become a red giant and cool, when it’s hydrogen core is expended. In approximately 5 billion years.

2 Blender Workshops in June!

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Just letting folks know, Hand Turkey Studios will be offering 2 Blender workshops in June: Blender Basics on the 9th and Blender Basics II on the 16th. You can register for either workshop for $50 or register for both for $90. We’ve found an awesome new venue for it by teaming up with […]

Lie of the Day #203

Monday, May 28th, 2007

When faced with the unenviable, yet inevitable prospect of engaging an escaped garden gnome in a knife fight while doing your laundry, the most effective course of action is to drop your knife and arm yourself with a bar of soap.  This will confuse the gnome and cause him to go into uncontrollable convulsions which, […]

Fact #102

Monday, May 28th, 2007

According to census information from 2003 Detroit is the tenth largest city in the US. With approximately 911,000 inhabitants.

Lie of the Day #202

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

The amount of data that’s necessary to mathematically describe the act of producing sound by clapping one’s hands together is massive enough to be used as a tactical weapon.  It’s also known to cause the spontaneous growth of teeth on the livers of field mice.