The Elephant Poo Poo Paper company can make 25 sheets of paper out of one piece of elephant poo. An animal that is over 20 million years old and we’re just now figuring this out?!
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Category Archives: Fact-astic Friday
The ocean is 70% free of sharks…
…or 30 percent full of them, depending on whether you are in a half-full or half-empty kind of mood
When a butterfly flaps it's wings
A clip from boingboing.net that was clipped from the NYT:
Nor does China’s air pollution respect borders: on certain days almost 25 percent of the particulate matter clotting the skies above Los Angeles can be traced to China, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental experts in California predict that China could eventually account for roughly a third of the state’s air pollution.
Here we come China!
According to the Census Bureau:
- Somewhere in America, every eight seconds on average, a new baby is born.
- Somewhere else, someone dies every 12 seconds.
- And every 31 seconds
And we're just getting started….
From a brief in CNNMoney
The Treasury Department says that cyber crime has now outgrown illegal drug sales in annual proceeds, netting an estimated $105 billion in 2004, the report said.
Getting technology repaired?
I am currently in the middle of reading The World is Flat and, in the book, Thomas Friedman develops a list of forces that have been pivotal in connecting and shrinking the distance between people and cultures in our modern society. His 8th force is “insourcing”, where a 3rd party company develops and runs part of another company’s business.
UPS is a prime example of a company who has begun to embrace this change and put their expertise to use. In the past, Toshiba notebook computers had a less than stellar quality reputation and shipping overseas for service took just a little bit longer than an irate customer usually wanted. UPS suggested that Toshiba cut extra shipping time and after the customer dropped the laptop off for return that UPS repair the notebook. With technicians fully certified by Toshiba, UPS now repairs every Toshiba laptop in the United States and has reduced the turnaround time dramatically.
Where does your technology get sent to be repaired?