LJ Index

  1. Percentage of TimeWarner-related celebrities featured on AOL's starter page in a 30-day period: 78
  2. Number of children who jumped up and down on one day in the U.K. hoping to cause an earthquake: 1,000,000
  3. Tons of energy released by a million children jumping up and down: 75,000
  4. Number of zSeries mainframe computers sold by IBM as of September 24, 2001: 1000
  5. Percetage of those mainframes on which Linux was installed: 10
  6. Typical cost of a zSeries mainframe in $millions: 1
  7. Sum in $millions pledge to Stanford University by Jim Clark: 150
  8. Sum in $millions suspended from the pledge by Jim Clark "pending the outcome of ongoing political deliberations" over stem cell research restrictions by Congress: 60
  9. According to a Cisco poster, number of cold beverages consumed per day by Cicso employees: 5
  10. According to the same poster, annual savings in $millions to Cisco from consumption of one less beverage per day per employee: 2
  11. According to a Web site responding to the poster, sum in $millions Cisco spends daily venting carbon dioxide out of its buildings: 7
  12. Accoring to the same Web site, sum in $ saved monthly if every Cicso employee breathed 4 percent less: 140,000
  13. Wireless manufacturing spending in $millions by 2002: 884
  14. Millions of Wi-Fi (802.11b) products installed by the end of 2001: 10
  15. Percentage of companies that plan to allocate less than $250,000 to support wireless access: 60
  16. Percentage of companies that expect to spend less than $1 million by 2004: 61
  17. Speed in miles per hour reached in the same flight: 5325
  18. Distance in feet traveled by the scramjet in 30 miliseconds: 260
  19. Length in feet of the cannon from which the scramjet was fired: 130
  20. Peak G-force accelleration of the scramjet in flight: 10,000
  21. DARPA expenditures in $ for the scramjet project: 800,000

Sources: 1, Drudge Report; 2-3, Yahoo News; 4-6, Bloomberg News; 7-8 Jim Clark, in open letter published in The New York Times; 11-12, The New York Times; 13-14, William Gurley, CNET, quoting Frost & Sullivan and Cahners-InStat, respectively; 15-16, Dow Jones Newswire; 17-21, Slashdot.

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1270-210-4848960-1.html?tag=bt_pr

Homework: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7039672.html?tag=lh

7-8, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/31/opinion/31CLAR.html

Mozilla #s: http://mozillaquest.com/Mozilla_News_01/Mozilla_Lay-Offs-01_Story01.html

Cisco #s: http://199.97.97.16/contWriter/cnd7/2001/09/04/cndin/8395-0223-pat_nytimes.html

http://slashdot.org/science/01/09/02/0318205.shtml

http://www.drudgereport.com/aoltw.htm

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010907/sc/life_britain_jump_dc_3.html

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1270-210-4848960-1.html?tag=bt_pr

http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB1000482454184038695.html (wireless investment)

http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Technology%20News&s1=blk&tp=ad_topright_tech&T=markets_bfgcgi_content99.ht&s2=ad_right1_technology&bt=ad_position1_technology&middle=ad_frame2_technology&s=AO66xcRTxSUJNIFNl


      The posters inform workers that ``Cisco employees consume 5 units per day,'' accompanied by a chart graphic, and that ``Simply by taking one less cold beverage per day, Cisco would save more than $2 million annually.''

      Well, one anonymous worker decided to poke some fun at the frugality campaign. A parody Web site went up asking employees to ``Breathe Frugally! Cisco spends $7 million venting carbon dioxide out of the building every day. If every employee breathed 4 percent less, Cisco would save $140,000 monthly.''

Mach speed reached by a scramjet in a DARPA test last June: 7.1

  2. Sum in dollars pledged by Jim Clark to Stanford University to fund biomedical research: 150,000,000
  3. Sum in millions withheld by Jim Clark after the Bush administration placed restrictions on stem cell research: 60,000,000