• THE FLOATING PLASTIC TRASH VORTEX in the northern Pacific Ocean used to be the size of Texas. Now it's covering an area twice the size of the continental US. ~ link
• 79% OF NIGERIAN COMPANIES are in a hiring mode. 71% of Chinese and Indian companies are hiring. 70% of Pakistani companies are recruiting. ~ link
• THE US ARMY is considering stationing 12 high speed vessels on Guam. I'm still trying to figure out why the Army is in the ship business. Wasn't the whole Marine Corp idea that they would be the sea-going troops? And while we're at it, why is the Navy is in the flying business. Why do all the service branches have so many duplicate units and missions? ~ link
• COGNITIVE FLUENCY isn't a totally new idea. Pastors have long complained that their congregants believe that the more simply something can be stated the more true it must be. That is, if something is complex or technical it must not be true -- or at the very least it is irrelevant. (This is why the believer's baptism approach generally wins out over the paedobaptism approach -- because the argument for baptizing infants is more complex. Likewise, the premillennial approach to eschatology is more easily reduced to a clean chart than any of the amillennial approaches.) Now psychologists are starting to take note of the phenomena. ~ link• "TWITTER ACCESS IN MEXICO may soon be restricted if plans by the Mexican Revolutionary Democratic Party become law. The plan, drafted by republican and PDR member Nazario Norberto hopes to restrict Twitter usage in an attempt to cut down on crime." ~ link (via)
• INEXPENSIVE PRINTING -- My brother Greg has compiled a really good collection of printing links. I've been using his site as a portal to printing deals. Somebody has always got a promo running. ~ Cheap Dog Printing
• AMERICAN TEENS are less into blogging these days -- and they never got into Twitter. Blog use among un-hip old people remains steady. ~ link
• PEPSI IS DROPPING OUT of the Superbowl this year. They'll put their ad dollars in social marketing -- community projects. This is a radical shift. ~ link
• PLANTING AN URBAN ORCHARD ~ link
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the inter-service rivalries are still intense. heck, the Marines even keep their own air arm to cover themselves b/c they don't trust the Navy, citing an occurrence in WW2. it's all crazy.
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