NBA, WNBA, PBL Basketball Fans Facebook Friends Tagging Challenge

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I created these tagging challenges for fans of North American professional basketball, or people who know lots of those fans. The tagging challenges can be done on Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal or other platforms where you can tag people on pictures.

The idea is to see how diverse is the group of basketball fans you know, and how does that compare to your fellow basketball loving friends. It’s no fun if everybody supported the team you supported, you know!

Here’s how to get these graphics for your tagging fun:

  • Click on a picture below to get it at full size.
  • Right click on that picture and save to your computer.
  • Upload it to your profile.
  • Tag your friends!

Fancy yourself quite the social sports fan, or this isn’t your sport? Try the same Facebook tagging challenges for:

Please click here for a complete list of over 100 Facebook picture tagging memes on this site with which you can use for fun with your friends.

Enjoy!

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Sailor Moon Facebook Friends Tagging Meme and Wallpaper

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Below are eight Facebook friends tagging meme picture of Sailor Moon characters. Is that enough for you Sailor Moon fans? 🙂

It starts with the basic, then gets into the two Good Senshi sets, then triple villains set because there were so many! In fact, if you think you know your Sailor Moon well, why don’t you test yourself to see if you can name all the characters without looking too much at the answers provided!

Credits to Simsim2212 on Deviant Art for some of the artwork and information. I had to do a fair bit of cutting, colourizing and other touch-ups on the artwork myself, though, to turn it into what you see here. As for the information, I hope Simsim2212 got it right, and that I transposed it correctly, because aside from the basic characters I researched, I know nothing of Sailor Moon other than that it is popular!

At the end is a wallpaper for a 1280 x 960 pixel or 1024 x 768 pixel monitor. Again, I did some Photoshop magic to make it the quality it is at.

If you would like to use any of the pictures below, please:

  • Click on the picture you want below to get it at full size.
  • Right click on that picture and save to your computer.
  • Upload it to your Facebook profile (the wallpaper you’ll have to get someone to help you if you don’t know how to set it as your background).
  • Tag your friends.

Please click here for a complete list of over 100 Facebook picture tagging memes on this site with which you can use for fun with your friends.

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Below are a list of characters in some of these memes. Since I have put the memes into the gallery thumbnails, so they’d load faster for viewers just having a look, the order has been mixed up and I don’t know which set go with which meme any more. But I’m sure the Sailor Moon fans who use these memes will, so I’ll leave it up to them. 🙂

Row 1
Sailor Mercury – Inner Senshi, Sailor Mars – Inner Senshi, Sailor Jupiter – Inner Senshi, Sailor Venus – Inner Senshi, Luna – Moon Guardian

Row 2
Sailor Pluto – Outer Senshi, Sailor Uranus – Outer Senshi, Sailor Neptune – Outer Senshi, Sailor Saturn – Outer Senshi, Artemis – Moon Guardian

Row 3
Sailor Kakkyou – Starlight Senshi, Sailor Star Fighter – Starlight Senshi, Sailor Star Healer – Starlight Senshi, Sailor Star Maker – Starlight Senshi, Diana – Moon Guardian

Row 1
Sailor Pallas – Asteroid Senshi, Sailor Vesta – Asteroid Senshi, Sailor Juno – Asteroid Senshi. Sailor Cere – Asteroid Senshi, Phobos – Mars Guardian

Row 2
Jadeite – Earth Shitennou, Nephrite – Earth Shitennou, Zoisite – Earth Shitennou, Kunzite – Earth Shitennou, Deimos – Mars Guardian

Row 3
Tuxedo Kamen – Master of Shitennou, Sailor Moon – Master of Inner and Outer Senshi, Sailor Chibichibi – Sailor Cosmos, Sailor Chibiusa – Master of Asteroid Senshi, Helios – Sun Guardian

Column 1 (left side, from top to bottom)
Queen Beryl – Dark Kingdom, Jadeite (Shitennou) – Dark Kingdom, Nephrite (Shitennou) – Dark Kingdom

Column 2
Rubeus – Black Moon Clan, Petz (Ayakashi Sisters) – Black Moon Clan, Calaveras (Ayakashi Sisters) – Black Moon Clan

Column 3
Esmeraude – Black Moon Clan, Achiral (Boule Brothers) – Black Moon Clan, Chiral (Boule Brothers) – Black Moon Clan

Column 4
Tellu (Witches 5) – Death Buster, Mimete (Witches 5) – Death Buster, Eudial (Witches 5) – Death Buster

Column 5
Viluy (Witches 5) – Death Buster, Cyprine (Witches 5) – Death Buster, Ptilol (Witches 5) – Death Buster

Column 1 (left side, from top to bottom)
Zoisite (Shitennou) – Dark Kingdom, Kunzite (Shitennou) – Dark Kingdom, Al – Alien

Column 2
Berthier (Ayakashi Sisters) – Black Moon Clan, Cooan (Ayakashi Sisters) – Black Moon Clan, An – Alien

Column 3
Black Lady – Black Moon Clan, Saphir – Black Moon Clan, Demand – Black Moon Clan

Column 4
Tomoe – Death Buster, Kaolinite – Death Buster, Wiseman – Black Moon Clan

Column 5
Mistress 9 – Death Buster, Zirconia – Death Moon Circus, Tiger’s Eye (Amazon Trio) – Death Moon Circus

Column 1 (left side, from top to bottom)
Cere Cere (Amazon Quartet) – Death Moon Circus, Hawk’s Eye (Amazon Trio) – Death Moon Circus, Fish’s Eye (Amazon Trio) – Death Moon Circus

Column 2
Sailor Tin Nyanko – Sailor Animates, Sailor Aluminum Seiren – Sailor Animates, Sailor Lead Crow – Sailor Animates

Column 3
Sailor Phi – Sailor Animates, Sailor Chi – Sailor Animates, Sailor Heavy Metal Papillon – Sailor Animates

Column 4
Sailor Chaos – THE EVIL!!!, Sailor Lethe – Sailor Animates, Sailor Mnemosyne – Sailor Animates

Column 5
Queen Nehellenia – Death Moon Circus, Sailor Galaxia – Sailor Animates, Sailor Iron Mouse – Sailor Animates

Column 6
Ves Ves (Amazon Quartet) – Death Moon Circus, Jun Jun (Amazon Quartet) – Death Moon Circus, Para Para (Amazon Quartet) – Death Moon Circus

Emoticons and Smileys Facebook Picture Tagging Memes

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I did not create these wordless emoticon and smiley Facebook picture tagging memes, and I do not know who did to link them to the source. However, I did touch up some of them to optimize them in size for Facebook, and a few I found as graphics searching for pictures that could be used for Facebook tagging. If you like descriptions with your emoticon and smiley memes, try the Emoticons & Smileys with Descriptions post.

To use any of these for your Facebook tagging fun:

  • Click on the picture to get it at full size.
  • Right click on that picture and save to your computer.
  • Upload it to your Facebook profile.
  • Tag your friends!

Please click here for a complete list of over 100 Facebook picture tagging memes on this site with which you can use for fun with your friends.

What is Your Blogging Grade Reading Level?

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With each entry, I check its Flesch-Kincaid Grade Reading Level to determine the grade level of education someone needs to get a good understanding of it from my writing style. If it’s above grade 12, I work it down to make it easier to read and improve my writing skills.

Before I get into the value of grade reading level, let me just say grade reading level is how easy something is to read, not necessarily understand. I could explain quantum mechanics to you using Dr Seuss’ language style, for example, and it would be easy to read since single syllabic words and short sentences with few subordinate clauses are used. However, trying to understand quantum mechanics taught to you that way? Good luck. Similar things can be said about a lot of poetry.

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So why do I test my writing with Flesch-Kincaid?

It’s not because I think my readers are stupid. However, no matter at what level you read, if I can make it easier for you, I can make it more efficient and likely enjoyable for you. As well, I’m doing it to help myself by developing better communication skills.

My free thoughts are often unnecessarily big and convoluted, typical of a strong Myers-Briggs iNtuitive personality type that I am. I can focus to organize and truncate them, but it is not natural to me. Knowing from the start of each entry that my writing will be put through a readability test before posting has really helped me focus. In less than a month, I’ve gone from grade 16 first drafts (university degree level) to grade 10 so I don’t have to edit most drafts for readability. I haven’t chosen easier topics. I’m simply writing better! I’ve kept my words and sentences shorter, as well as employed some other plain language and effective writing techniques I will discuss in future posts. Writing at high school grades 10-12 level has almost become natural to me now!

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But isn’t grade 10-12 reading level a little insulting to the readers?

Not if you knew the average adult in America reads at a grade 8-9 level!
(Check Q9 of Pfizer Quiz)
“Adult Literacy in America (NALS)” National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (NCES 1993-275), April 2002.

Or that one in seven adult Americans (32 million) have such low literacy skills they cannot adequately read and understand a newspaper story, anything more difficult than a children’s picture book or a medication’s side effects listed on a pill bottle.
(USA Today, Jan 9 2008; US Federal study)

Even at the level I am allowing myself to blog at, grades 10-12, the average American can’t functionally read what I’m saying! Is that any way to try to draw an audience?

Some may say blog readers are smarter than the average person, or at least have better reading skills. They may be forgiven for that. After all, blog readers are reading to start with so they not only need reading skills, they are improving them. Still, that’s disrespectful to push your readers’ limits when you can push yours the other way to be a little mindful and write simpler. Content is ultimately key to a blog’s success, but while I have seen lots of tips and articles on subject matter and organization and such, I’ve hardly found anything on grade reading level. In fact, I didn’t. I came up with the idea to check my writing’s grade reading level since I am not the greatest of writers. I only did the search after this post and added these references in having been surprised.

Now, I’m sure all my readers are brilliant, smile, but that’s no excuse for me to test them each time out. I want my readers to enjoy the experience of reading my writing and to understand it with as little effort and time as possible. The easiest way to do this, though not the most impacting way like subject matter and narrative style, is to reduce the grade reading level required to understand your blog entries. The simplest way to check may just be to use a Flesch-Kincaid grade reading level script.

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Flesch-Kincaid Reading Grade Reading Level Tester

Flesch-Kincaid Reading Grade Reading Level Tester

How do I get an entry’s Flesch-Kincaid grade reading level?

I use the University of Texas’ TxReadability website. I just copy all my post text and paste into a box at the link above, checking off the Text Only choice before clicking Analyze. Just for my blogging purposes alone, I’m going to use that site so much they should at least give me a link!

The TxReadability site also has a different option. It uses the Forcast Readability Formula to gauge the readability of an entire web page, accounting for words that do not belong in a sentence. Just provide the test with a website’s URL. Fun to test out with some of your favourite sites, that’s for sure! Here are some I either use a lot or have chosen to compare, from content present on the evening of Jan 6 2009.

Endless fun from scrutiny, no doubt! How’s about the NFL site being more challenging to read than CNN? Are American football fans that smart? 🙂

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What grade level do you blog at?

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Flesch-Kincaid Grade Reading Level: 8.0 (Cha-CHING!!!)

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Six Word Biographies

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Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser from Boingboing had this great concept of the 6-word memoir. There are even great YouTube videos about it.

I absolutely loved the idea! Unfortunately, unless you were Maya Angelou, you should probably just stick to one memoir… even if your memoir were only a 6-word memoir. For the record, mine is Everything Done Will Mean More Later.

However, there’s nothing wrong with writing lots of 6-word biographies, so I’m dedicating this post to the concept. That means I will add other 6-word biographies as I think of them, to this same post, mostly of famous people so others can relate, but also the occasional specific person in my life for an inside joke. Real biography links courtesy of Wikipedia.

If you have any 6-word biographies to share, please add them to the comments. Thank you.

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Six Word Memoir

Six Word Memoir

Not enough channels to share everything!
– Ted Turner

WTF??? Ask in Facebook survey. LMFAO!!!
– A certain 16 year old distant relative I know

Superman. On screen and off screen.
– Christopher Reeve

My Way, with other people’s songs.
– Frank Sinatra

My Way. My Songs. My Show.
– Paul Anka

Fame became infamy between my legs.
– Bill Buckner

Yes we can. Yes we will!
– Barack Obama

Born to be Vice-president, not historian.
– Joe Biden

Repeat Om mani padme hum forever…
– Any Dalai Lama

Good heart, bad lungs, no wardrobe.
– Darth Vader

Six words? I want six memoirs!
– Maya Angelou

Great in many ways, relativity speaking.
– Albert Einstein

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Flesch-Kincaid Grade Reading Level: 6.7