Random

✽ Ingenious Filipinos. I think they have 7 people on one motorbike -- perfectly balanced. Hopefully there aren't too many traffic lights or wet patches along their route. ~ link

✽ CNMI can't pay its employees. ~ link

✽ Audio slideshow: Penang's (Malaysia) melting pot ~ BBC News

✽ The Young Men’s Christian Association became the YMCA. Now they are rebranding again to be known simply as "the Y." There was not a comment from the Village People in the story. ~ NY Times

✽ "A Chinese government-backed think tank has accused the US and other Western governments of using social-networking sites such as Facebook to spur political unrest and called for stepped-up scrutiny of the wildly popular sites." I agree. I've long suspected that the CIA was using FarmVille to destabilize global commodity prices. ~ link