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- Paga Crocodile Pond in Ghana
- Visualizing How A Population Grows To 7 Billion
- Holiday Spending Forecast [infographic]
- Google Halloween Doodle 2011
- Pac-Man in Real Life [Video]
| Posted: 01 Nov 2011 03:22 PM PDT Located in the north-eastern border of Ghana, Paga is a sacred crocodile sanctuary. Although crocodiles are considered as wild creatures, the Paga crocodiles are friendly and coexist with humans. The friendly relationship between the crocodiles and humans continue to baffle the minds of many. This is in contrast to the perception of crocodiles as dangerous. It is a customary offence to harm, kill or show any sign of disrespect to the crocodile of Paga. It is common to find children and or visitors sitting at the back of or holding the tale of a crocodile without any harm, after a sacrifice of a chicken. According to the villagers, the crocodiles have never harmed anyone but since there's a first time for everything, a hospital is located 200 km to the south in the capital city of northern Ghana, Tamale. This is normal for the people of Paga but a mystery to visitors.                    
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| Visualizing How A Population Grows To 7 Billion Posted: 01 Nov 2011 03:00 PM PDT  The U.N. estimates that the world`s population will pass the 7 billion mark today. That`s a whole lotta people. Much of that growth has happened in Asia — in India and China. This video does an excellent job of explaining how population growth has happened with beautiful visualizations. Click through to watch it. It's worth it. Source: npr 
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| Holiday Spending Forecast [infographic] Posted: 01 Nov 2011 02:49 PM PDT  We all know consumers spend more during the holiday season than any other time during the year. But did you know 38% of people have already began their yearly shopping extravaganzas? Online shopping now beats out shopping in stores (for the social media users who responded to the survey) and electronics are at the top of their shopping lists. Seventy-two percent get gift ideas from Facebook, the most popular social network for researching. The infographic, created by Lab42, also includes some interesting stats, such as the average shopper in 2010 spent $107.50 on themselves. Thirty-one percent of people will spend over $700 this year. Lab42′s data comes from an online survey of 545 social media users between Oct. 18 and Oct. 20. More Infographics. Click on Image to Enlarge.  Source: mashable 
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| Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:42 PM PDT  In celebration of Halloween, the front page of Google is featuring a time-lapse Google Doodle animation of their logo being cared out of giant pumpkins on the lawn of the Google campus in Mountain View, CA. 
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| Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:03 PM PDT  Youtube user Respect the Pact have created a video featuring a real life Pac-Man who realizes he's a walking video game and can subsist on pac-dots. Lucky! The ghostly Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde make appearances and give him a good chase through suburbia. Enjoy. 
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