January 24, 2009 21:31:06
When Queen Elizabeth II of England visited Denmark in 1960, strips of tape were placed on the controls of any elevators she would be using to cover the lit-up "I FART" panel which in danish means "in motion"! She could later go "farting 'round the canals" of Copenha...
December 9, 2008 21:01:02
A 20 year old Chinese girl from Zhuhai in Guangdong province became partially deaf after a passionate kiss from her boyfriend. The girl was admitted to a hospital with complete loss of hearing in her left ear. The doctor who treated the girl explained his diagnosis. "The kiss reduced the pr...
October 14, 2008 20:31:56
They don’t stay closed. They won’t go up half the time. Pull too hard and the zipper pull comes off! Zippers are probably the first machines any of us learn to use as kids. But who first thought up the zipper and how long ago was that? It all started 115 years ago in Chi...
June 7, 2009 14:48:58
Alexander McCall Smith Interview: The No.1 Ladies Detective Writer
Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling British author of over 60 books, is on his way back to Botswana to write his next book. He was kind enough to answer a few questions for timtim about his characters and book covers and his thoughts on artwork, talent, and teaching. Alexander ...
February 18, 2009 20:48:41
Ben 10? No! Pen 10 - Obama Style
When President Barack Obama signed the $789 billion Stimulus Bill on Tuesday Feb. 17th in Colorado on live TV the audience and press were scratching their heads with laughter. The president used a brand new pen to sign each of the 10 signatures the document needed to become law. As odd as thi...
September 20, 2008 16:48:07
How many times have you heard the words, “I can’t draw!” or “Drawing is a talent you inherit!” With such words people often dismiss their own abilities and spend the rest of their lives muttering the phrase “If only I could draw it I could explain it much bet...
September 30, 2008 21:00:42
CHIMPS TEST HIGHER THAN STUDENTS
Dr. Tetsuro Matsuzawa and his team of scientists at Kyoto University in Japan ran a series of visual memory tests on Chimpanzees and university students and have concluded that the chimps have a photographic memory far superior to humans. The special test showed that students were not only slowe...
September 30, 2008 19:56:10
If you Google the term "Online Funerals" you will get about a half a million hits and most of them today are actual online funeral services and memorial websites where people can mourn their departed love ones. In a way you can keep a virtual version of your loved one alive in cybe...
April 6, 2009 19:35:26
A few weeks ago 9-year-old Malaysian boy, Lim Ding Wen, wrote a finger-painting application called Doodle Kids for the Apple iPhone. The program allows iPhone owners to draw images on the handset's touch screen using just their fingers. Although done to please his two sisters aged 3 and 5, the p...
March 22, 2009 15:09:40
Strange things can happen if you do!. Click this link and see what can happen - online! (it takes 3 seconds to open) . There are over 200 drawings and cartoons to color or change as you like! You can also make your own original artwork with the wide selection of painting and dra...
December 2, 2009 21:38:52
Timtim has just updated and improved its ONLINE COLORING & DRAWING page where anyone can draw, paint, and color hundreds of timtim drawings online with no log-in . Four new canvas backgrounds have been added and the SQUARE & CIRCLE TOOLS have been split, allowing users ...
August 20, 2009 22:39:57
It's like being hypnotized - you wake up afterwards wondering where you are and what happened. It seems like a daydream into The Twilight Zone - another Power Point Presentation by a speaker who believes that bullit points and non-stop slides can somehow transmit the message into the listeners' ...
May 29, 2009 21:06:56
There are more people alive on our planet today than have ever lived and died in all of human history. The present population is about 6,783,014,950 which is almost 3 times the number of people who lived just after WWII and 30 times the number of people who lived when Christ was born. In 1968 a ...
March 1, 2010 05:08:36
Total disorientation, jumbled sensory input, loss of balance, and temporary mental blackout - that's what an earthquake does to you and it is almost impossible not to panic and to do the right thing when a quake strikes. I have felt it, and anyone who has can tell you it is like nothing you've e...
October 29, 2009 02:41:48
Einstein Mozart Darwin Warhol & Bill Gates
Asperger's Syndrome - often pronounced as(s)-burger , is an unusual phrase used to describe people on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum who are single-minded perfectionists with very poor social skills and a very literal interpretation of the world around them. For most, the t...