Is there any way that advertisers can come up with anything new to bombard us with? They certainly have exhausted every avenue possible in exploiting existing mediums from 16-wheeler billboards to virtual ads in the social networking game, Second Life. Is there no end to what advertisers can exploit? Apparently not, because the new game seems to be your sense of smell.

In an article in the May, ‘07, Wired magazine, Sissel Tolaas, a Berlin chemist, is working on capturing scents in ways never thought of before.

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With 1.3 billion people, $1.7 trillion in foreign trade, 2.2 million soldiers, and about 200 nuclear warheads, China seems to be positioning itself as an emerging superpower. As far as the average American is concerned, most think of China as a benign academic cottage industry, but with China’s new focus on growth at any cost, they are accelerating their position on the world stage. However, symptomatic of this new focus is a more sinister agenda that may startle the West and those unsuspecting governments who just haven’t seen it coming.

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Remember when Einstein said that “if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left”? Well, it seems that this threat is at our door. Scientists are describing this as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in which a hive’s inhabitants suddenly disappear. The vanished bees are never found and are assumed to have died singularly far from the hive. If you haven’t heard already, your obsessive cell phone usage may be the culprit.

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I don’t know if you watched the video of our wonderful presidential candidate John McCain’s response from a question in the crowd as to what to do about Iran, but if you didn’t, here it is. His response was a take on the old Beach Boys song Ba-Ba-Ba–ba-barbara Ann. Instead, he sang Bomb-Bomb-Bomb-Iran. Can you believe this? It’s no wonder that we are looked at by the world community to be an imperialist, war-mongering, arrogant nation.

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You may say that courtship in dating has its share of little deceptions used as a way to impress someone like, “I love sports”, or “I love opera”. But what about online? Do people online go too far in their deceptions about themselves? Perhaps in no other environment has there been such a cloak of anonymity that actually encourages deception. Some deceptions may only have to do with a person’s height or weight, but it can also go so far as to scam people out of money for the sake of a little romance. You may learn to be a little more cautious after reading what some people do in regards to today’s deception at light speed.

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