The Day After- Another Thought
This one came yesterday from Bruderhof.com. Sounded like a good one for The Day After Thanksgiving- or as it has become in the US- the BIG SHOPPING day.

Our Way of Giving
Chief Maquinna

Once when I was in Victoria, I saw a very large house. They told me it was a bank, and that the white men place their money there to be taken care of, and that by and by they got it back, with interest. We are Indians, and we have no such bank; but when we have plenty of money or blankets, we give them away to other chiefs and people, and by and by they return them, and our hearts feel good. Our way of giving is our bank.
Source: Maquinna, Nootka chief, early 19th Century

From the World of (Cold) Science
Two interesting items today from science as found on NewScientist.com.

First is the singing iceberg.

Researchers monitoring earthquakes in Antarctica have uncovered a surprising source for some mysterious rumblings – singing icebergs.

“It’s like something from a horror film,” says Vera Schlindwein, a geophysicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. The songs can vary, from resembling bees buzzing to something more melodic, like a string orchestra, she says.

The world DOES sing! (Singing sand dunes are mentioned, too.) Awesome.

Second, is the discovery in the cold that we are warm.

The longest ice-core record of climate history ever obtained has hugely extended the detailed history of Earth's atmosphere, and shows that levels of greenhouse gases really do march in lockstep with changes in temperature.

The sample also shows the highest level of those greenhouse gases in the past 650,000 years is right now.

Climate change, anyone?