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Need a Job? Losing Your House? Who Says Hoodoo Can’t Help?
Tough Times Boost Sales of Spider Dust, Spells for Good Fortune, Mojo Powders
by Cameron McWhirter
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cite: Educational CyberPlayGround
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American Book Award Winner DAN CASSIDY wrote:
How the Irish Invented American Slang Word origin AND Etymology of Jazz
How did Hausa words find their way into Ireland and thence to Brooklyn in the early 1880s? How did they get to Canada ? Hoodoo is not related etymologically as a word to voodoo. Most Anglo-American dictionaries derive hoodoo from voodoo. There is no proof of any relation. In meaning, actually, they are quite different.
Irish American Vernacular English Origin of Hoodoo.
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Category: NetHappenings
Why you can't have more than 150 friends.
The ultimate brain teaser
Gittin’ Jiggy wid it.
Relative to their body size, monkeys, apes and humans have unusually big brains. It has been suggested that this reflects the complexity of their social lives. This hypothesis is gaining support thanks to ground-breaking research by a University of Liverpool scientist, whose methods have been taken up by primate researchers around the world. These same methods could soon shed light on the story of human evolution.
So how many monkeys would it take before you stopped caring?
That’s not a rhetorical question. We actually know the number.
The Monkeysphere is the group of people who each of us, using our monkeyish brains, are able to conceptualize as people. If the monkey scientists are monkey right, it’s physically impossible for this to be a number much larger than 150.
Putin ordered the transfer of power on Linux (translated)
Putin ordered the transfer of power on Linux (translated)
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://open.cnews.ru/news/top/index.shtml%3F2010/12/27/421556
Plan timeline (translated):
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://filearchive.cnews.ru/doc/2010/06/17/2299p.doc&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1
Comscore Ranks Top 30 Global Internet Properties, Undercounts Chinese Sites | DigiCha
Chart Of The Day
Here are the top thirty Internet properties in the world as measured by comScore:
There are six Chinese sites on the list-Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Sina, Sohu and Netease.
The Comscore data significantly understates the size of major Chinese websites.
The interesting thing about this chart is that 75% of these properties are based in the US.
Contrast that with only 17% of the Internet audience (213mm) is in the US and you will see that Internet is one of the primary export industries in the US.
Google’s Doubleclick Ad Planner has more realistic data for Chinese sites, but strangely does not include Google. Chinese Internet firms tend to use iResearch’s iUserTracker.
http://digicha.com/?p=644
Comscore and others may be understating the size of the major Chinese Internet firms, but investors are not. As the table below shows, two of the top five global Internet firms by market capitalization are Chinese: Tencent is number 3 and Baidu is number 5. (If Facebook were public it would likely displace one of the Chinese firms in the top 5.)
Internet May Be The Largest Industry In China Not Dominated By State-Owned Firms
Will Chinese Become Dominant Language of the Internet?
