Summation

GDP - per capita -- Rank Ordering the World

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CIA - The World Factbook -- Rank Order - GDP - per capita reveals a ranking of 231 territories/countries and their rank order in terms of GDP per capita.

Luxemberg is first with $44,000 ... followed by the U.S., Bermuda, Cayman Islands, San Marino (a random country of 28 thousand located within the borders of Italy), Norway, Switzerland, Ireland, Canada, and Belgium.

The lowest GDP is East Timor (with $500) ... followed by Somalia, Sierra Leone, Gaza Strip, Mayotte (near Madagascar and run by France), Burundi, Congo, Tanzania, and Malawi.

Books: Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News

Books: Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg

A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News

This is an interesting and extremely provocative book recommended to me by Rob Bailey. Though Goldberg seems to be on a vendetta of sorts, he makes some extremely good points about the left-wing bias of the news at the three major networks.

ABC/CBS/NBC news are in steady decline. every year their viewership goes down as people turn to more trustworthy news sources (Fox, MSNBC, talk radio, the Internet, etc.). Goldberg explains why it happens and how it happens -- and he gives a lot of good examples on media bias.

It is hard to read (or listen -- I actually listened to it on tape) this book and come out with a good opinion of Rather, Brokaw, and Jennings. It will be interesting to see how news changes in the next few years as all three are expected to retire in the near future.

Do You Have a Bizarro?

Do you have a bizarro?

A couple of years back i had an eVite bizarro. eVite is a service that people use to invite you to parties and then you can RSVP to them effectively.

I kept going to parties and "Ron Abta" would always RSVP to them. I kept seeing his name and wondered who he was. Then I started going to parties and asking if he was there. Invariably I'd get a response like "he's in the living room" and then I'd make my way to the living room and I'd get "he already left." I started thinking that maybe this Ron Abta guy didn't exist.

Well ... soon enough, Ron heard I was doing this at parties and he started doing it to -- asking people if they saw "Auren Hoffman". We went six months like that before finally meeting (and then I introduced him to Arinel's -- the best pizza in San Francisco)...

Books: No Such Thing As a Bad Day: A Memoir by Hamilton Jordan

Books: No Such Thing As a Bad Day: A Memoir by Hamilton Jordan

Yet another book on tape. Good book from President Jimmy Carter's Chief of Staff. Hamilton Jordan talks about his experiences with three different bouts of cancer -- all effecting him before he turned fifty.

It is a good book about cancer -- something that will affect almost 50% of all Americans in our lifetime.