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When I was back home in the US over XMAS, my niece, who just turned 8, asked my wife and I to play a “food” game in the car in order to pass the time…she didn’t have a name for the game, but she excitedly explained the rules to us like this: “Guys, whoever comes up with the grossest combination of food possible–WINS!

“OK”, I said…”how about a peanut butter [...]

..frugal & green.

Dwight K. Schrute…the alpha-male, science fiction loving beet farmer/sales manager extraordinaire (and, don’t forget, the assistant “to the” regional manager) on the hit TV series the Office is not your ordinary, touchy-Greeny type of guy.  However, Dwight is keenly interested in beet farming and working the land.  As his blog post “Beets and me” on Schrute-Space indicates, he even enjoys getting up every morning (along with [...]

A few days ago, I saw an interesting Wall Street journal article from a Russian academic who thinks that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will kick-off a US civil war next fall (all combined with the collapse of the dollar). By June 2010, he believes that the U.S. will break into six nicely cut pieces–interestingly Alaska is going to revert to Russian control.  hmmm…

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As mentioned in a previous post, I wanted to put up a couple of last minute gifting ideas for XMAS…as I was looking up ideas, my wife thought the “give a goat” scheme from Oxfam sounded pretty cool. So tonight I will take a look at some different animal gifting programs.

The Goats: Giving a goat to someone in the developing world provides a range of benefits. [...]

One story that didn’t receive adequate coverage this year in the blogosphere (in my opinion) was that China overtook the US as the biggest online market in the world. It won’t be long until the Chinese digital market is double the size of the US. Indeed, the Chinese government is really going to have to work overtime to keep blocking all of the new (and increasingly young) Chinese surfers that [...]