Great Circle

80% of Companies Won’t Fail in 5 Years - Do you own a start-up business and hear the horror stories and statistics that tell you you’re probably doomed? Think again…

Operation Order - a terrific lesson from the US Army on effective event planning for the frazzled leader.

The Benefit of Mistakes - a B&B owner takes a blogging-detour from the normal recipes and weather reports to reflect on how mistakes often move us forward. Excerpt: “Each mistake also has the potential to take us on a tangent that we never would’ve taken had we not made that mistake, and more often that not, it’s those exact tangents that take us closer to the achievement of our dreams.”

And lastly, if you really just need a laugh or change of pace, try these sites.

1) To read wierd but true facts & stories, try This Is True for items like these:

• A man sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted.
• Two robbers were in the process of their crime when one changed his mind and arrested the other.
• A woman had her husband’s ashes made into an egg timer when he died so he could still “help” in the kitchen.
• Only 68 of 200 Anglican priests polled could name all Ten Commandments, but half said they believed in space aliens.

2) A completely juvenile flash animation game.

3) If you have a strong stomach and enjoy calling outher people “wierd” or “stupid”, visit this Belly Button Fluff collector in Perth Western Australia. [Personally, I'd be really embarrassed to flaunt my fetish so!]

See? Something for everyone out there in cyberspace….