A Simple But Troubling Question

Although the world's economy is teetering on the brink of financial malaise, let me just take a moment to jump into our very important and most attention-getting current event with a question:

Wouldn't you think the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency might have access to a more secure means of encrypting and hiding electronic communications rather than utilizing a Google Gmail account drop box?

Just askin'.......................................

Our Mind-Boggling Internet

I'm told there are over 2 billion users of the Internet world-wide. That's nearly one-third of the world's population! Pretty incredible. Never before has the world been so connected. Of course, that brings on good and bad, but it is very amazing nonetheless.

I came across this infographic, noting the most popular major operations occurring on the Internet each minute:

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Graphic courtesy of Media Bistro.

Nearly 100,000 Twitter tweets each minute?!!!!? How did we ever make it through life without tweeting...and tweeting often? Half a million Facebook comments? Ya gotta be kidding me!