" Simply letting the concept percolate in the subconscious, and waiting for the concept to re-surface. Talking with like-minded people . Resorting to communication with others, if this is allowed. Working backward from the goal. Fashion of thinking. Desire for learning. Think Secret is a website run by "Nick DePlume" (real name, Nicholas Ciarelli) since DePlume was 13 years old. Mother Day Thought Think Secret specializes in publishing reports and rumors about Apple Computer and is currently, as of May 2005, involved in litigation with Apple regarding alleged violation of trade secret laws. The name of the site is a play on Apple's former advertising slogan, "Think Different". "

" One candidate is the Fabian Society of Britain, founded in 1884 to promote gradual social change. The Brookings Institution, founded in the US in 1916 is another candidate for the first think tank. The term think tank itself, however, was originally used in reference to organizations that offered military advice, most notably the RAND Corporation, formed originally in 1945. Until around 1970, there were no more than a couple dozen think tanks, mostly focused on offering non-partisan policy and military advice to the United States government, and generally with large staffs and research budgets. After 1970, the number of think tanks exploded, as many smaller new think tanks were formed to express various partisan, political, and ideological views. Etymology and usage Until the 1940s, most think tanks were known only by the name of the institution. During the Second World War, think tanks were referred to as "brain boxes" after the slang term for the brain or skull. Christian Thought Of The Day The phrase "think tank" in wartime American slang refered to rooms in which strategists discussed war planning. The first recorded use of the phrase to refer to modern think tanks was in 1959, and by the 1960s the term was commonly used to describe RAND and other groups assisting the armed forces. "