Facebook Shutting Down March 15?

Are rumors about Facebook shutting down march 15 true? CNN does not think so. Read more at :

Facebook NOT shutting down March 15

However can there be smoke without fire? If not shut-down is the hype and buzz indicative of some other announcement by Facebook?  The Facebook IPO? Or does Mark just plan to give his employees the day off as he may be planning to get married on that day?

Jain Silk, Ahimsa Silk

Interesting article from the WSJ:

Taking the Violence Out of Silk

Do you know how many silkworms are normally killed to make a silk sari? Kusuma Rajaiah, a 55-year old government officer from India’s Andhra Pradesh state, does: “Around 10,000.”

Mr. Rajaiah estimates that around 15 silkworms are normally sacrificed to produce a gram of silk yarn. For years, he’s been battling against what he describes as the “cruel killing of millions of innocent worms.”

But there’s no need to give up silk: Mr. Rajaiah has long come up with an alternative. He realized the lure of silk was too strong to persuade people to give it up altogether so he came up with a technique that spares the life of the silkworm.

Kusuma Rajaiah displayed a fabric woven from nonviolent silk yarn. He’s the man who invented “Ahimsa” – or “nonviolent” – mulberry silk, a fabric which has since reached temples in Tamil Nadu and red carpets in Hollywood. Read more...