- Size in $billions of the email marketing industry: 1
- Predicted average number of spam emails per inbox per year by 2006: 1500
- Number of spams accumulated in an idle inbox on Earthlink over the year leading up to August 2001: 1200
- Number of spams accumulated in the same inbox between April 18 and May 13, 2002: 1124
- Number of spams, received by one Linux Journal editor's inbox on May 1, 2002: 197
- Number of spams in that same group with attached files suspected of containing a virus: 15
- Year when a U.S. interstate highway system was first proposed in Congress: 1924
- Year President Roosevelt pushed unsuccessfully for an interstate highway system: 1938
- Year in the Eisenhower administration when interstate highway system legislation was finally passed: 1956
1, San Jose Mercury News; 2, Jupiter Media Metrix; 3-6 (LJ Senior Editor) Doc Searls; 7-9, Brian Arthur, in Business 2.0.
Notes to ignore:
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3108519.htm>