There are 181,000 Social Media 'Gurus,' 'Ninjas,' 'Masters,' and 'Mavens' on Twitter (AdAge)

2% of employees admit their top work-related resolution for 2013 is to get their boss fired (Glassdoor)

The US has 5% of the world’s population and 50% of the world's guns (Washington Post)

Coffee is "stress in a cup" (Dr David Posen)

Coming soon to Facebook - video ads on your news feed.

According to Adam Bryant, who interviewed 200+ CEOs, there are 5 key traits of world-class leaders: passion, confidence, team smarts, simple mindset, and bias toward action.

JWTIntelligence - 10 Trends for 2013 in 2 minutes

According to Google, 17% of US shoppers will visit a store and then buy online.  51% who buy in-store researched online first.

30 years ago the average person in China had never spoken on a telephone. 

Happy Diwali! Diwali celebrates the return of Rama from 14 years of exile. By coincidence, I’ve been living in the US for 13 years and next year I’ll return to living in Asia.

The average round-trip domestic airfare this Thanksgiving is $386, which is up 9% from last year according to Travelocity.

Ryanair CEO: 'Seat Belts Don't Matter'

Climate change is like steroids for weather (paraphrasing Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute of the Environment). Try to reduce your carbon footprint.

Over half a billion people on the planet play online games.  They spend over 3 billion hours a week playing.

It can take up to seven pounds of fish meal for a farmed specimen like salmon to put on one pound of body weight.

Sometimes Daniel Craig goes to hotel bars in the mornings for interviews. In spite of the time of day people send martinis over to him!

The best way to predict the future is to invent it 
- Alan Kay

Very happy with the soymilk I made this morning.  I soaked a small handful of organic soybeans yesterday.  Today I blended them and added a bit of raw sugar.  I didn't filter it but you may want to.

"All of human consciousness is five years old emotionally. It’s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that is having a huge impact on the planet, using up resources and destroying the biosphere."


- James Cameron

So this is how the zombie apocalypse all starts... get your guns ready!  First ‘zombie bees’ reported in Washington state: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/zombie-bees-reported-washington-state-article-1.1168298