// The Array Function function makeArray(len) { for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) this[i] = null; this.length = len; } // This is where the array of text/images/sounds is created. ideas = new makeArray(42); ideas[0] = "a cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow)." ideas[1] = "The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!" ideas[2] = "No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike." ideas[3] = "There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos." ideas[4] = "Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!" ideas[5] = "A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body." ideas[6] = "A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't." ideas[7] = "A rat can last longer without water than a camel can." ideas[8] = "About 10% of the world's population is left-handed." ideas[9] = "A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites." ideas[10] = "A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet." ideas[11] = "A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second." ideas[12] = "The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth." ideas[13] = "Dolphins sleep with one eye open!" ideas[14] = "The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of upto 41.7 miles per hour." ideas[15] = "A cat sees about six times better than a human at night." ideas[16] = "A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through." ideas[17] = "The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse!" ideas[18] = "A jellyfish is 95 percent water!" ideas[19] = "At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces." ideas[20] = "You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!" ideas[21] = "The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!" ideas[22] = "Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?" ideas[23] = "A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!" ideas[24] = "A dog's sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a human's." ideas[25] = "A hippopotamus can run faster than a man." ideas[26] = "That there is a sort of crab which climbs trees!" ideas[27] = "'Hello Kitty' began as part of a covert propaganda campaign originally proposed by Prime Minister Tojo during World War II." ideas[28] = "The African black rhinoceros excretes its own weight in dung every 48 hours." ideas[29] = "Animals are either right- or left-handed? Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog." ideas[30] = "A frog named Santjie, who was in a frog derby in South Africa jumped 13 feet 5.5 inches" ideas[31] = "Dinosaurs didn't eat grass? There was no grass in the days of the dinosaurs." ideas[32] = "Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching." ideas[33] = "There are 6 to 14 frogs species in the world that have no tongues. One of these is the African dwarf frog.." ideas[34] = "When subjected to an electric current of at least 50 volts, a cat's tail always points toward the north." ideas[35] = "Prehistoric turtles may have weighed as much as 5,000 pounds" ideas[36] = "The longest life span of a frog was 40 years" ideas[37] = "Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world." ideas[38] = "Sumatran rhinoceros is smaller than other rhino. Only about 150 remain, but even these are in serious danger from hunters." ideas[39] = "On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute." ideas[40] = "That elaphant's teeth can weight as much as nine pounds each? Amazing!" ideas[41] = "Scientists don’t know why, but when a black light is shined on a scorpion, it will glow." // The random number generator. function rand(n) { seed = (0x015a4e35 * seed) % 0x7fffffff; return (seed >> 16) % n; } var now = new Date() var seed = now.getTime() % 0xffffffff //Chrome Drop Down Menu v2.01- Author: Dynamic Drive (http://www.dynamicdrive.com) //Last updated: November 14th 06- added iframe shim technique var cssdropdown={ disappeardelay: 250, //set delay in miliseconds before menu disappears onmouseout disablemenuclick: true, //when user clicks on a menu item with a drop down menu, disable menu item's link? enableswipe: 1, //enable swipe effect? 1 for yes, 0 for no enableiframeshim: 1, //enable "iframe shim" technique to get drop down menus to correctly appear on top of controls such as form objects in IE5.5/IE6? 1 for yes, 0 for no //No need to edit beyond here//////////////////////// dropmenuobj: null, ie: document.all, firefox: document.getElementById&&!document.all, swipetimer: undefined, bottomclip:0, getposOffset:function(what, offsettype){ var totaloffset=(offsettype=="left")? what.offsetLeft : what.offsetTop; var parentEl=what.offsetParent; while (parentEl!=null){ totaloffset=(offsettype=="left")? totaloffset+parentEl.offsetLeft : totaloffset+parentEl.offsetTop; parentEl=parentEl.offsetParent; } return totaloffset; }, swipeeffect:function(){ if (this.bottomclip