Fun Facts
When you host your own blog you decide the content that it contains…all the things that you think are pertinent to you and your readers.
Some of you may know this but each of those things in my sidebar is called a widget.
—a widget is a stand-alone application that can be embedded into third party sites by any user on a page where they have rights of authorship-– yada, yada yada
In other words I search for widgets with a code that someone else has written, plop it into a text box and that’s that! The thing with WordPress.com that I found so very restricting is that they controlled some of that content by not allowing certain java scripts (the script that makes up the code) to be embedded in my blog (mainly commercial activity widgets)
One of those widgets that I found and love for this blog is the Fun Facts widget (a WP widget). Every time you visit my blog a new fun fact is displayed like the new ones I got today….
- did you know that a person uses approximately 57 sheets of toilet paper every day (yeh, like you really needed to know that)
- that Happy Birthday, the song, is copyrighted? (so much for observing copyright on that one)
- or that in medieval Thailand, they had movable type printing presses. The type was made from baked oxen dung (Yummy!)
Now if you so choose you can keep hitting the refresh key on your browser to get new and interesting fun facts but I think your time will be better spent on art.
When you do visit my blog however, don’t forget to scroll down and check for another bit of useless neat bits of information waiting there to fill another brain cell that could instead be used to listen to all the mindless drivel on the TV. Take your pick.
I’m going For the Fun Facts.
p.s.
Here’s are a few places I’ve found some of the widgets I used (disclaimer…I am not affiliated with any of them nor do I vouch for their reliability)
Widgetbox
Widgipedia
Google Gadgets
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