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15 May 2010 20:34

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Culture: After 36 years, Hello Kitty’s popularity finally waning

And thank God for that. That cat is absolutely terrifying. source
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14 May 2010 01:30

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Offbeat, Tech: Domain name sales: Dating more popular than birth

  • $1.75
    million     the amount someone paid for Dating.com at a recent auction of domain names in Florida
  • $6,000
    bucks     the amount someone paid for Birth.net; there’s a pregnancy joke in here somewhere source
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03 May 2010 09:56

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Tech: Apple sells a bunch of iPads really quickly, hits milestone already

  • 1M number of iPads
    sold     since its April 4 launch day
  • 12M number of iPad
    apps     getting used on
    the device
  • 1.5M number of digital
    books     getting read on
    the iPad source
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27 Apr 2010 10:45

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Biz: Ford kicking butt, taking names, selling Tauruses this quarter

  • $2.1B the size of Ford’s profit
    in the current quarter; that makes a whole year of profit for them
  • 2005 the last time the bailout-free company
    had four straight quarters of big profits
  • 96% the increase in sales the company’s revamped Ford Taurus has seen this quarter source
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21 Apr 2010 11:10

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Offbeat: China’s willing to leap over the Great Firewall for Japanese porn stars

  • What sparked so much discussion about me by Chinese people? What happened? Please tell me.
  • Japanese porn star Aoi Sola • On her newfound popularity on Twitter with the mainland Chinese. After her fans found out she was on the site, they freaked out and found ways around the “Great Firewall” that China uses to block certain speech-allowing sites. “In China you can get anything you want on the Internet, you just have to want to bad enough,” said China-based tech industry analyst David Wolf. So, on the scale from Tiananmen Square to Japanese porn stars, Japanese porn stars win. source
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21 Apr 2010 10:27

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Tech: Here’s a fun-looking heat map on Apple uptake in the U.S.

To our friends in D.C, NYC, L.A., Silicon Valley, Chicago and Colorado: You’ve officially been sucked in by the Apple borg. How’s it feel, anyway? source
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20 Apr 2010 23:21

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Tech: iPhones selling like smudged-up hotcakes for Apple

  • 8.75
    million     the number of iPhones (including one prototype) that sold last quarter
  • 133%
    boost     the year-over-year increase from
    last year source
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15 Apr 2010 10:04

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Tech: Twitter finally gives us some concrete numbers about its growth

  • 604,455 accounts per Twitter employee
  • 105M number of users on Twitter; 300,000 get added daily
  • 50M number of tweets
    that get sent out
    every single day
  • 75% of all tweet traffic comes from third-party applications source
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15 Apr 2010 09:15

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Tech: Despite sucking terribly, Opera Mini gets a ton of downloads

  • 1 million downloads of a crap iPhone browser in its first full day source
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26 Mar 2010 15:36

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Politics: What, me political? Alfred E. Neuman marks down his opinions

  • Alfred E. Neuman drew something on his shirt on the cover of this month’s Mad Magazine that sort of speaks to the cultural zeitgeist at the moment. Curious about what it is? Well, you’ll just have to click the link to find out. source
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