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14 Mar 2010 12:14

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Culture: The year’s first $200 million movie: “Alice in Wonderland 3D”

  • $62 million in its second week alone; not bad source
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19 Oct 2009 21:15

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Tech: “Oh lord.” Twitter’s gotten through five billion tweets.

  • @robinsloan smelt it, so we’re pretty sure he dealt it. Twitter is like McDonald’s. So many tweets get made nowadays that you’re surprised someone is counting. But someone is counting, and that guy (Robin Sloan, formerly of Current Media) noticed that he managed to get tweet number five billion today. Does he win a prize? If not, he should. source
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29 Apr 2009 08:35

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U.S.: Meet the motherlode of Obama 100 days data

The New York Times’ graphic is so thorough, you’ll spend 45 minutes poring it over. source
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23 Apr 2009 22:38

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Tech: Apple finally topples the mysterious 1 billion iPhone app mark

Good news, guys! When we hit our 1 billionth post, we’re going to give you a free laptop. It might be a while, though. source
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08 Apr 2009 09:55

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Tech: Facebook hits a big milestone today; Mark Zuckerberg still looks smug

  • 200 million users are on Facebook; they’ll officially pass that mark today; celebrate by poking someone (us!)
  • five years amount of time since the site was a glimmer in Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard-weaned eye source
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31 Mar 2009 10:31

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Sports: Why it sucks to be MLB slugger Gary Sheffield right now

  • 499 career homers but no team; the Tigers released him today source
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