That's interesting; like the Roman thing, it's like reading a book through a fish bowl!

Have you heard of an aardwolf?

(ärd´woolf) , carnivore of the hyena family. The aardwolf, Proteles cristatus, resembles the true hyena but is smaller and more delicate. It has less powerful teeth and jaws and five instead of four toes on its forepaws. The coat of the aardwolf is yellow-white with dark stripes; a ridge of hair extends down its sloping back. It is a nocturnal, burrowing animal, inhabiting sandy plain and scrub from South Africa to Angola and Somaliland. A shy animal, it feeds on small animals and insects, especially termites, and defends itself by emitting a foul-smelling fluid from anal scent glands. A litter may include as many as six cubs, but two to four is typical; gestation is around 59-61 days. Aardwolves are solitary, but several females with cubs may share a burrow. In captivity they have been known to live as long as 13 years. Aardwolves are classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Carnivora, family Hyaenidae. :twisted:

Did you know...

Paul Verhoeven and cinematographer Jost Vacano shot one take of the co-ed shower scene in Starship Troopers in the nude themselves (on a dare from star Dina Meyer)

good work soldier; we'll make a citizen out of you yet! Boo Yaa!

oh great; now I've got that song in my head, the one that goes 'have a bit of Monicker' or whatever... :lol:

Did you know, the .NET moniker allows classic COM code to create instances of managed types using the standard Moniker infrastructure?

Usage
The display name for the moniker is as follows:

dm.net:['<assembly-name>']<class-name>

where <assembly-name> identifies an assembly and <class-name> identifies a class in that assembly. The assembly referenced in the display name must be in the search path for the current process, or else must be registered and installed as a shared assembly in the assembly cache.


Sample
Set stack = GetObject("dm.net:['mscorlib']System.Collections.Stack")
stack.Push ".NET"
stack.Push "Hello "
MsgBox stack.Pop & stack.Pop

:fish:

Shirley not.

The tomato is the world's most popular fruit. And yes, just like the brinjal and the pumpkin, botanically speaking it is a fruit, not a vegetable. More than 60 million tons of tomatoes are produced per year, 16 million tons more than the second most popular fruit, the banana. Apples are the third most popular (36 million tons), then oranges (34 million tons) and watermelons (22 million tons).

Tomatoes were first cultivated in 700 AD by Aztecs and Incas. Explorers returning from Mexico introduced the tomato into Europe, where it was first mentioned in 1556. The French called it "the apple of love," the Germans "the apple of paradise."

Tomatoes are rich in vitamins A and C and fibre, and are cholesterol free. An average size tomato (148 gram, or 5 oz) boasts only 35 calories. Furthermore, new medical research suggests that the consumption of lycopene - the stuff that makes tomatoes red - may prevent cancer. Lycopene is part of the family of pigments called carotenoids, which are natural compounds that create the colours of fruits and vegetables. For example, beta carotene is the orange pigment in carrots. As with essential amino acids, they are not produced by the human body. Lycopene is the most powerful antioxidant in the carotenoid family and, with vitamins C and E, protect us from the free radicals that degrade many parts of the body.

Try it for a month and see what happens

Oh drat; thought you were going to become a new super hero, Tomato Man! [Take that you bounder]> :tomato:

On 23 September 1999 NASA scientists lost the $100 million Mars Climate Orbiter because they instructed the craft in imperial (inches and feet) instead of metric (metres) measurements. It sent the probe, which was set up for metric data, off course and burning up in the Mars atmosphere.

The first decimal system was introduced in the 4th Century BC by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia, to whom the invention of writing is credited. They based their numerical system on powers of 60 subdivided into multiples of 10. It was from this system that Sumero-Babylonians developed the time system that we use today: each hour is divided into 60 minutes, which are divided into 60 seconds. However, they did not have a symbol for zero, which was introduced by Arabians only toward the end of the first millennium BC. It is thought that the zero could have been devised by Indian Hindu mathematicians because the concept of nothing was important in their early religion and philosophy.