LJ Index

  1. Number of online casinos: 1800
  2. Millions of gamblers wagering at online casinos: 2
  3. Billions lost by gamblers lost in Internet gambling in 2002: 3.5
  4. Percentage of movies released between 1927 and 1946 that are currently unavailable: 93
  5. Billions of years before the Andromeda galaxy collides with and merges with the Milky Way galaxy: 3.5
  6. Probable age of any diamond you meet, in billions of years: 3
  7. Percentage of Starbucks customers who are Internet users: 90
  8. Minimum number of Starbucks stores in the U.S. in 2002: 2,700
  9. Percentage of Starbucks stores in the U.S. expected to feature wireless Internet access: 70
  10. Number of government desktops converted to Linux by November 2002 in Spain's Extremadura region: 10,000
  11. Number of government desktops expected converted to Linux by November 2003 in Spain's Extremadura region: 100,000
  12. Downloads of Extremadura's own Linux distro, Linex, from outside the district: 55,000
  13. Dozens of countries with laws encouraging free software: 2
  14. Number of free software laws or policies pending in those countries: 70
  15. Number of Linux management tools in IBM's Tivoli in 2001: 2
  16. Number of Linux management tools in IBM's Tivoli in 2002: 20
  17. Percentage of IT managers employing Linux "in some capacity": 39
  18. Number of different Linux-based PDAs: 23
  19. Number of servers in a Linux cluster installed at the University of Buffalo in September 2002: 2000
  20. Number of servers in another Linux cluster installed at the University of Buffalo in November, 2002: 300

1-3, Newsweek; 4, Jason Schultz, in letter to Lawrence Lessig; 5, John Dubinski, U. of Toronto; 6, American Museum of Natural History; 7-9, FastCompany; 10-14, Washington Post; 15-16, Information Week; 17, Goldman Sachs research, IDGnet; 18, LinuxDevices, 19-20, Boston Globe

Notes to ignore...

http://www.way.nu/archives/000493.html#000493

http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/hp/vo/ava/avapages/G0601andmilwy.html

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/diamonds/

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/jason2.txt

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id%3D1305

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24856-2002Oct14.html

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/49/utw.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A59197-2002Nov2?language=printer

http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021204S0002

http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8728350077.html

http://www.idg.net/ic_968553_1794_9-10000.html

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/336/business/Here_come_the_disposable_servers+.shtml