You might want to check if your state is opting out of the Fed’s National Identification Card program, which will be required by 2014 for citizens born after 1964. For non-participating states in the program, the Feds have mandated to the commercial airlines industry that your state driver’s license is no longer valid identification to board a plane.

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 Network Solutions Inc. recently reversed its policy of reserving domain names searched through its website. Who hasn’t visited a registrar and searched for a domain they wanted to buy. Most of the time it would of already been registered, but guess how many of those times were because of Network Solutions’ blatant greed and deceit?

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According to Goldman Sachs, the world’s largest global investment banks, Japan may be close to a recession. As the second largest free market economy, with the U.S. as the largest, they too are experiencing a slowdown in economic growth. The subprime mortgage crisis in the states has caused capitol investors to liquidate their holdings in Japan among others.

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A study done on 20,000 middle to senior aged people dived into the vague moniker of “being healthy”. The factors in the study used to rate the participants were how much they smoked, were they physically active, did they moderately drank alcohol, and did they consume five serving of fresh fruit and vegetables a day.

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Following the charitable giving article, I’ve been persuaded by a colleague to write a follow-up article about humanitarian efforts.

The instability in both Africa’s political and social systems has thwarted many of even the most determined social workers. The fact that even my colleague’s director in Africa is unable to return to the school she helps because of violence near the boarder. He also works with a largely unknown organization helping in Central America, which I’ll ask about more and report back. The overall project he was undertaking was to send textbooks and medical supplies to the largely overcrowded schools in Africa. They build everything from the buildings themselves, to the clothes they wear. And the enrollment in their schools has skyrocketed. He also plans to ship 6 computers they require to setup a computer lab. I’ll report back when I get some of the footage and photos he took while on his travels there.
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 ”Unfortunately, most (blanks) are loaded with toxins, have short life spans and are not designed for recycling,” can you guess what fills that blank? If you’ve guessed electronic gismos, then you guessed the main theme of this year’s Consumer Electronic Show in Los Vegas. The technology industry’s largest: Sony and Dell among others are changing to become more eco conscious. They currently are planning to “offset” the toxic landfill waste by planting more trees, and better recycling programs. The offsets amount to the tune of about $100 million. New start-ups are planning new eco friendly solar devices, while others boast higher power efficiency.

The drive in the industry to be greener arises from the tons of toxic materials in their products. This combined with the rabid obsolescence rate and you have a heavy polluter which rivals even the power industry.
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Who wouldn’t walk a 10k race for a good cause? Well, thanks to the availability of fast online money transfers you can be charitable and still save your feet. And the numbers don’t lie. According to Forbs, individual giving accounted for about $220 billion last year, nearly $7 billion of that was from online giving. The average person who donates doesn’t do it for the recognition; they would happily donate if they had to do it anonymously. And thanks to reoccurring payments they can continue to give without any effort.

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Sure you could do without the pill shaped placebo, but where would be fun in that? According to a Times article the effect of just telling patients they would be getting painkillers induced them to create endorphins naturally. The question arises in the ethics of doctors manipulating natural psychological behaviors in an attempt to help patients with no other options.

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It’s internet history that a lot of today’s best domains were already off the market in 1994-1996. What defines a “good” domain? Some would say a good domain would consist of a single real word, short and easy to remember, and be related to the content of the site.♣ I’ll get to examples of this later. If you look at some of today’s most successful domains you’ll find something in common: they aren’t real words.

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How happy would you be if some company you trusted with your personal information let that information fall into thieves hands? How much more insult to injury if they weren’t legally required to inform you, except that some of the victims lived in California, and their law requires it?

This parallels in that the federal government believes it’s knows the individual states ecological systems better then the states themselves. California in fact is suing the EPA over it’s denial of applying tougher standards then what the government wants to blanket over the country. The Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in a statement to the press, “It is unconscionable that the federal government is keeping California from adopting new standards.” The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), the “wonderful” company that brought you MTBE which is still poisoning the environment, also known as “Two-Bit Crooks” as Dr. Bill Wattenberg puts it, has not returned a response.

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