Who, What, Where? A REALLY FUN GAME

I created this little game of "Who, What, Where?" to have some fun with good stuff to know. It's kind of like a mini-encyclopedia of fun facts and pictures covering all sorts of subjects. Here's how you play:

1. CAREFUL! Don't put your mouse cursor over any tiny picture pieces until you are sure you are ready to do that.

2. Look at the tiny pieces of pictures and try to guess what the main picture is... "Who" if it's a person and you think you know who, "What" if it's an animal or object, and "Where" if it is a location and exactly where do you think it is? So far, so good?

3. When you are ready to know the answers for sure, move your mouse cursor over a tiny picture piece and it will show you the main picture and give you the answer.

4. If you are the really curious type, CLICK on the tiny picture piece and a new window will pop up showing you a new webpage (not part of this blog) that gives you more details or shows something related to the main picture.

5. HAVE FUN!

A Live (Sort Of) Picture of the Sun

Courtesy of NASA. Thanks, NASA.

The Discovery Channel has a whole bunch of great images of our sun here. Here's just one of them:

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth and other matter (including other planets, asteroids, meteoroids, comets, and dust) orbit the Sun, which by itself accounts for about 99.86% of the Solar System's mass. The mean distance of the Sun from the Earth is approximately 149.6 million kilometers (93.0 million miles), and its light travels this distance in 8 minutes and 19 seconds.

Once regarded as a small and relatively insignificant star, the Sun is now known to be brighter than 85% of the stars in the galaxy, most of which are red dwarfs.
The Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy at a distance of approximately 24,000–26,000 light years from the galactic center, moving generally in the direction of Cygnus and completing one revolution in about 225–250 million years (one Galactic year).

The Sun's magnetic field gives rise to many effects that are collectively called solar activity, including sunspots on the surface of the Sun, solar flares, and variations in solar wind that carry material through the Solar System.

The sun was formed about 4.57 billion years ago when a hydrogen molecular cloud collapsed.

The above information came from this article on Wikipedia.

KidAstronomy has a bunch of great articles about the planets in our solar system and they have an article about the sun.

SunTrek is a website designed for kids to help them discover more about the Sun and its impact on Earth. There's adventure waiting there!

BOOKS ABOUT THE SUN
(various age levels)

Paint a House!

That's right, you can paint a whole entire house with the JAVA applet at the Flexbon paint website. This is NOT a kid's website. It was made for adults who are thinking of painting their house and aren't sure what color combinations they want so this applet lets you try out all kinds of colors on different house types. Even though this website was made for adults, it's still FUN FOR KIDS, TOO!

Younger kids will definitely need older kid or adult help in figuring out how to use the controls on the applet.

The JAVA applet appears in its own pop-up window at the same time that the main window opens. It is not a pop-up ad. It's where you have the fun.

FROM THE WEBSITE:

Welcome to SpectraFlex - Flex Bon's Java™ enabled "point and shoot" paint applet, featuring the Flex Bon Color Source Selection of colors!

In order to paint with our applet you will need to temporarily disable any pop-up window blockers. You will also need to have a Java enabled web browser.

To paint a house, first select a color from the palette. You can scroll through the colors with the navigational buttons to the right. If you know the color number and want to find it, press the "Find color #" button and enter the number (not case sensitive).

Next, move your mouse to the area of the house you want to paint, then click. It's that easy! At any time you can press the "View selections" button to see which colors you have selected for each area of the house you've painted.

While in the "View selections" area, you can press the "Color palette" button to return to the palette screen. To select another house to paint, press the "Pick new image" button. To clear the colors you selected and start over, press "Clear list". Have fun!

Please Note: These computer video simulations only approximate the dry paint color. The actual color will vary depending on the vehicle, gloss level, application technique, film thickness variances, substrate and light source. For critical color matches, a sample of paint should be applied, allowed to dry and checked before proceeding with the entire job.

The optimal color palette setting for your video display is 24 bit (16M colors) or higher.

P.S. Yep, I "painted" those houses you see up there.