2010 is now the warmest year in the past 130

NASA reports that 2005 is now not the record breaker, it is now this year. When natural forces plays along with human forces, drastic changes occur. This year is a prime example. NY Times article quotes;

Some of the year’s most striking warming was again seen in the Arctic. Canada’s Hudson Bay, for instance, is typically half-covered by ice by the end of November. By Nov. 30, however, only 17 percent of the bay was iced over. The lack of sea ice appeared to be playing a major role in warming the atmosphere in the region, scientists said.

The year was also marked by extreme weather events, from a record-breaking heat wave in Russia in July to catastrophic floods in Pakistan. At least 17 nations, many in Asia, set all-time single-day heat records. Abnormally high sea temperatures were also blamed for a global bleaching of coral reefs.

Personally, I am not a firm believer in global warming/global climate change, but I can't argue something is going awry. My idea is that nature is the biggest explanation, however, these events could be frightening to anybody.

Amazon extends free shipping

The free shipping cutoff for Christmas was pushed back for people who procrastinated for shopping. This is a great move because this will cause people top make decisions faster and maybe buy more stuff.

The new holiday-season deadline to qualify for Amazon's popular "Super Saver Shipping" option is Dec. 17, according to a revised timetable announced Friday. The previous cutoff date under the program had been Dec. 16.
The free-shipping offer applies to all Amazon purchases of at least $25.
The extension is aimed at boosting Amazon's sales during the pivotal holiday shopping season.

I want to see how the market reacts to this. Amazon looks like it is consistently going up by this diagram, and the addition of the Christmas season makes Amazon more promising.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is...

Julian Assange is now being prosecuted by the United States in retaliation from the embarrassing cables released over the past year.

Assange has been remanded in custody in Britain after a European arrest warrant was issued by Sweden, which wants to question Assange about allegations made by two women of sexual crimes. He has denied the allegations.
"I came to Sweden as a refugee publisher involved with an extraordinary publishing fight with the Pentagon, where people were being detained and there is an attempt to prosecute me for espionage," Assange said in an interview in the documentary, aired on Swedish public television.

If you don't know who Mr. Assange is, well he is basically the main man in the creation of the website Wikileaks (founded in 2006) that has "leaked" multiple harmful documents on governments and other political figures. Wikileaks is self proclaimed that they are present to report the truth to the people. Check these sites out for more info: Wikipedia Wikileaks

And no, Wikipedia and Wikileaks have no known correlation to each other other than their names.

Here is a picture of Assange earlier this year, who just so happened to be in a family's vacation photos.

Steve Jobs - CEO of the decade

Many of us know about Apple and why it is so great. The marketing schemes and revolutionary products are state of the art and are of the highest quality. But there is a story behind this that I did not know about before. Here is an excerpt from an article about how Steve Jobs got apple to where it is today.

After pulling his own company back from the brink of bankruptcy before the decade started, he almost single-handedly went on to save the recording industry with the iPod and iTunes. He revolutionized handheld devices and touch-screen technology with the iPhone. And he may well usher in a post-PC era of computing with his latest gadget, the iPad.

No wonder Apple's stock is above 300 dollars, 43 times what it was a decade ago. People see this company as one that will continue to reign over the tech industry and give the example for success. In the long run, it looks reassuring that their stock will climb even higher.

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