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Google’s arcade logo cost  roughly 4.8 million hours of productivity Friday, so says the RescueTime Blog. Read their full post for the math, but to take from their summary:

Google Pac-Man consumed 4,819,352 hours of time (beyond the 33.6m daily man hours of attention that Google Search gets in a given day)
$120,483,800 is the dollar tally, [...]

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Some peculiar sexting survey numbers are surfacing from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project’s latest report [via Fast Company].

15% of cell-owning teens (ages 12-17) says they’ve received sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images or videos of themselves to someone else via text messaging. That’s 1 in 6.
4% of the same group say [...]

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A few days ago it was announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that their awards–commonly referred to as The Oscars–would have not five but ten nominees for the best picture Oscar.  The reaction was decidedly mixed, with many of the detractors suggesting that the new rules will add to the already [...]

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WhoPooped.org

June 4th, 2009 by Dave Studinski

Just when you thought you’ve discovered the depths of the Internet, now you can guess who pooped the poo, courtesy a marketing campaign from the Minnesota Zoo.
Quite the informative and well-designed site. Appetizing? Not so much.
[via @theoldfather]

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Open Government

May 24th, 2009 by Matt Duncan

I’m not sure this is what people mean by “open government”.

Found via reddit.com

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Not that we’re personally affected, but everyone loves to know: Craigslist is nixing the access to “erotic services” in lieu of a new, people-monitored category called “adult services.” The CL blog explains:
As of today for all US craigslist sites, postings to the “erotic services” category will no longer be accepted, and in 7 days the [...]

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