The Yellow Pages use no virgin paper in the production of their directories, but to produce and deliver 540 million a year requires immense amounts of water and uses immense amounts of energy and fuel. If you need the YP, keep it! But if you’re among the 70% polled who say they never even open them, opt out. It’s just a waste not to.
https://www.yellowpagesoptout.com/ or (866) 329-7118
Hat tip to Give A Shit About Nature.
Always glad to to our bit when it comes to preserve nature!
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Common sense for sale.
Two ounces for a dollar!
Hand-made, unique…
Would make for a handsome souvenir!
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No takers, I take it?
Bad investment:
profit margin’s low!
Adsense, yes.
One cent a click,
but common sense,
that no!
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Insanity for sale.
Two…
How much for a pound?
Never mind, I’ll take the lot!
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This was sent to me by a friend of mine. It’s cute to try the demo and should you wish, you can get a 15 day free trial to create your own automated messages with virtual characters to enhance your site!
<Click here!> to use the demo, where you choose the language, the character(male or female), the duration, pitch, length of the message and so on…
Note that the character follows your cursor with his/her eyes!
SitePal is an easy-to-use service that allows you to create a speaking avatar for your website and empower your online communication.
At this present moment in time India contains 17.5% of the world’s population(source: Wikipedia) and is expected to surpass China in this respect by 2025. Investors should perhaps take into account that while China’s economic boom is manifest, India’s market offers the benefit of less problems over a language barrier, nor does it have its political restraints. Let us review some numbers:
India’s colleges and universities turn out more or less 3.1 million graduates each year, who are all computer literate.
India had 65 million active internet users in 2011 and for (source=)Google, India is the third biggest Internet market in terms of users(with over 100 million internet users) now.
Some data from Medianama.com (for March 2011):
- Media and Entertainment: 26% Research online
- Technology Products: 72% Research online
- Travel: 40% Research online
- Queries for Internet banking have gone up 200 times in the last 18 months
It is estimated that more than 300 million people in India will be hooked on to mobile internet by the year 2015.
Currently there is one computer for every 25 Indians, availability of PCs per head has doubled in just four years. – from cmrindia.com
While these figures do not compare well to China’s overall growth, they are certainly not to be sniffed at!
Some trends of “The Three L’s” that are universally important to all peoples everywhere, namely: Love(and friendship), Laughter and Lazing about in the sun:
In India, Orkut is the social network of choice. Study reveals an immensely engaged and untapped emerging market that is ready for the taking. While social media campaigns concentrate on the US and Europe, it is actually the countries outside of these target markets where they are most likely to be met with open arms.(from thenextweb.com)
India will see the fastest growth in social networking this year (51.7%) – from therealtimereport.com
Read up on Indian humor on www.indianetzone.com/ and www.comedyindia.info/
This is just to show that comedy in India is very much alive and kicking!
Foreign Exchange earnings from tourism in India for 2010: US$ 14.19 Billion with an annual growth rate of 24.6% – from IndiaStat.com
Conclusion: Anyone who wants to get as broad an English-speaking audience as possible would do well not to forget this largely untapped market! The numbers are staggering and continually growing, which should say enough in and of itself.
After Google, Bing and the other major search engines India has a long list of its own, which are specific to the country. When one inputs “India search engines” in Google one gets 339000000 results, but a lot of these do not let you submit your url, if you do not have a site that specifically concerns India. However, a good researcher could find ways to get noticed. It-india.com offers some free submissions to name but one! Now it is up to the respective webmasters whether to decide to go for it or not…
2nd Dalai Lama http://www.simhas.org/files/2Dalai.JPG (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Yesterday I took the liberty of reblogging that post about the Dalai Lama. I don’t know if you saw it. Now why would I do such a thing? Apparently, this man went visiting somewhere, very probably met some people and said some things… Personally, I am not interested in what he ate and in the state of his bowel movements, but… whenever this guy opens his mouth pearls of wisdom seem to tumble forth and for this I respect him immensely.
Back to „Dear Kimmy“, what pearls of wisdom stagger forth from her gob then? Am I missing something of interest here, folks? Has Miss Kardashian reached Nirvana and is she going to enlighten us on the shortcut that she discovered through painful(for her anyway!) meditation? Did she, after years of meticulous scientific study, invent a cure for cancer?
I wouldn’t know, because Ralphie has been too busy procrastinating and still can’t be asked to Google the Earth-shattering breakthroughs that Miss K. has on her curriculum. Could some kind-hearted reader of this blog bring this wisdom to my door, in a comment to this blog post, please?
Why do millions of people spend hard-earned money and time and effort on finding out what this bimbo is up to? Did she go discoing and get shit faced and make a spectacle of herself? So what? Billions of individuals do that every week. I know, ’cause I used to be one of them! Then why did the farterazzis not take trillions of pictures of me, when I was licking out assorted gutters all over Europe? Why did Jay Leno not invite me on his show after one of these feats? Jay, explain yourself, mate!
Or did „poor“ Kimmy have her nipples replaced by five carat diamond studs? Alright, I won’t go that far in order to reach celeb status! What is it with this broad and why do you all read about her? Tell me!!! Ralphie’s flabbergasted and flummoxed mind wants and needs to know!
A-ny-way, it is time for an update on Ralphie’s night and morning! I did pass a troubled night, because of my cold. I had coffee and cake for breakfast and for some inexplicable reason, I have not been to the bathroom yet. Details about the progress of my morning will have to wait till I can be arsed to convey said information to my gazillions of fans everywhere. Please refrain from pestering me with emails and such, because I might be in the middle of something important, like a nap! Toodeloo(!?) gang…
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