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23
Sep 2009
20:12
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U.S.
,
World
:
Muammar Gaddafi’s 15 minutes went on … and on … and on
40
years since
Gaddafi took power; the Libyan leader had never visited the U.S. before this week; nice entance, brah
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epic
huge
length
Muammar Gaddafi
scathing
speech
u.s
united nations
21
Sep 2009
21:53
tags
Tech
:
The scale of World of Warcraft is beyond massive
5.5 million
lines of code
for the game, which is 1.3 petabytes in size (a petrabyte is a BILLION megabytes)
source
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huge
massive
numbers
scale
size
subscribers
warcraft
world of warcraft
16
Sep 2009
20:26
tags
Tech
:
Twitter is worth a bit more than 140 characters would suggest
$
50 million
the amount Twitter raised
in its latest round of venture-capital funding
source
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funding
huge
market value
money
raise
twitter
venture capital
08
Sep 2009
11:26
tags
Offbeat
:
It’s not a badger, it’s a rat: Giant new species discovered
This ugly little beast, the Bosavi woolly rat, will be the first victim of the Catstravaganza tomorrow.
source
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Bosavi woolly rat
catstravaganza
giant rat
huge
insane
new species
rat
rodent
wtf
08
Sep 2009
02:42
tags
Music
:
Pitchfork spews forth a torrent of Beatles reissue love
5,390
words on the Beatles’
reissues were published today – and they’re not even done yet!
source
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a hard day's night
beatles
huge
massive
pitchfork
ratings
reissue
words
writing
02
Sep 2009
20:58
tags
Biz
,
U.S.
:
We wish we had a 1% of this Pfizer fine in our bank account
$
2.3
billion for wining
and dining (and influencing) doctors
source
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advertising
dining
drugs
fine
giant
huge
pfizer
wining
17
Aug 2009
10:52
tags
Biz
:
One of Citi’s big shots, Andrew Hall, got a big bonus anyway
$
100 million
the amount Citi paid
Hall last year in bonuses, despite his company’s dire straits
source
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$100 million
andrew hall
bailout
bonus
castle
citi
funds
huge
wtf
14
Aug 2009
12:16
tags
Biz
,
Tech
:
Like a bean bag chair, Apple’s sitting on a big pile of cash
$
31.1
billion reserves
; Steve Jobs is holding out on us
source
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apple
cash reserves
huge
income
money
steve jobs
14
Aug 2009
11:07
tags
Biz
,
U.S.
:
Need twenty bucks? Ask these super-rich guys for a loan
$
702.4 million
the amount Blackstone Group LP’s
Stephen Schwarzman, made last year, largely from the vesting of equity grants
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2008
blackstone group lp
executive pay
huge
largest
larry ellison
oracle
stephen schwartzman
totals
13
Jul 2009
22:24
tags
Biz
,
U.S.
:
Like scary numbers? ‘Course you do. Here’s a really scary one
$
94
billion U.S. budget deficit
in June; that’s a lot of
change
source
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$1 trillion
$94 billion
budget deficit
deficit
economy
huge
money
obama
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