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Average percentage by which an amateur stock website’s forecast was incorrect: 21
Average percentage by which an amateur stock website’s forecast was incorrect: 21
Bloomberg News (N.Y.C.)
Average monthly viewership of NakedNews.com, a Canadian website whose anchors strip while reading the news: 6,000,000
Average monthly viewership of NakedNews.com, a Canadian website whose anchors strip while reading the news: 6,000,000
NakedNews.com (Toronto)
Last date the “community right to know” database on hazardous substances was available on the EPA’s website: 9/20/01
Last date the “community right to know” database on hazardous substances was available on the EPA’s website: 9/20/01
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Price a Las Vegas filmmaker charges through his website for a film of homeless men fighting each other: $19.95
Price a Las Vegas filmmaker charges through his website for a film of homeless men fighting each other: $19.95
Extreme Entertainment (Las Vegas)
Number of copies he claims to have sold so far: 275,000
Number of copies he claims to have sold so far: 275,000
Extreme Entertainment (Las Vegas)
Months after Ohio’s Flesh Public Library installed Internet filters in 2000 that the filters blocked its own website: 12
Months after Ohio’s Flesh Public Library installed Internet filters in 2000 that the filters blocked its own website: 12
Flesh Public Library (Piqua, Ohio)
Number of publications on women’s rights that the Labor Department has removed from its website since 1999: 25
Number of publications on women’s rights that the Labor Department has removed from its website since 1999: 25
The National Council for Research on Women (N.Y.C.)
Number of Danish graduate students who last December released a copyright-free recipe for an “open-source beer‚”: 15
Number of Danish graduate students who last December released a copyright-free recipe for an “open-source beer‚”: 15
Superflex (Copenhagen)
Number of times the website has been accessed so far: 133,000
Number of times the website has been accessed so far: 133,000
Superflex (Copenhagen)
Estimated number of pro-terrorism websites worldwide in 1998 and today, respectively: 12, 4,700
Estimated number of pro-terrorism websites worldwide in 1998 and today, respectively: 12, 4,700
Gabriel Weimann, University of Haifa (Israel)
Number of erotic Harry Potter fan-fiction stories posted on a website run by an Illinois woman: 1,750
Number of erotic Harry Potter fan-fiction stories posted on a website run by an Illinois woman: 1,750
Vicki Dolenga (Schaumburg, Ill.)
Average number of hits the site receives each day: 198,000
Average number of hits the site receives each day: 198,000
Vicki Dolenga (Schaumburg, Ill.)
Number of half-siblings who have found each other on a website for children of anonymous sperm donors: 1,316
Number of half-siblings who have found each other on a website for children of anonymous sperm donors: 1,316
Donor Sibling Registry (Nederland, Colo.)
Greatest number of them who have the same father: 21
Greatest number of them who have the same father: 21
Donor Sibling Registry (Nederland, Colo.)
Estimated number of fake blogs created every day by websites to improve their rankings in search-engine results: 6,750
Estimated number of fake blogs created every day by websites to improve their rankings in search-engine results: 6,750
Technorati (San Francisco)
Number of books that Art Garfunkel has read since June 1968, according to a comprehensive list on his website: 948
Number of books that Art Garfunkel has read since June 1968, according to a comprehensive list on his website: 948
Donald McCarthy, www.artgarfunkel.com (N.Y.C.)
Minimum number of hits received each month by the GM website Hummerkids.com: 40,000
Minimum number of hits received each month by the GM website Hummerkids.com: 40,000
Hummer Communications (Detroit)
Number of postings by the U.S. State Department’s “digital outreach team‚” on Arabic websites this year: 490
Number of postings by the U.S. State Department’s “digital outreach team‚” on Arabic websites this year: 490
U.S. Department of State
Minimum number of world nations that had government websites taken over by cybersquatters last year: 3
Minimum number of world nations that had government websites taken over by cybersquatters last year: 3
Darrell West, Brown University (Providence)
Number of different e-cards that a nonprofit website offers for informing sexual partners of their exposure to an STD: 7
Number of different e-cards that a nonprofit website offers for informing sexual partners of their exposure to an STD: 7
Internet Sexuality Information Services, Inc. (Oakland)
Ratio of the number of scabies cards sent so far to the number of chlamydia cards: 2:1
Ratio of the number of scabies cards sent so far to the number of chlamydia cards: 2:1
Internet Sexuality Information Services, Inc. (Oakland)
Chance that a result on an Internet search relating to suicide will be an anti-suicide website: 1 in 8
Chance that a result on an Internet search relating to suicide will be an anti-suicide website: 1 in 8
David Gunnell, University of Bristol (Bristol, U.K.)
Chance it will be a site offering pro-suicide advice or suggesting methods: 1 in 5
Chance it will be a site offering pro-suicide advice or suggesting methods: 1 in 5
David Gunnell, University of Bristol (Bristol, U.K.)
Amount that Paris Hilton’s parents have donated to John McCain’s campaign: $4,600
Amount that Paris Hilton’s parents have donated to John McCain’s campaign: $4,600
Federal Election Commission
Amount the co-founder of the gay dating website Manhunt has: $2,300
Amount the co-founder of the gay dating website Manhunt has: $2,300
Federal Election Commission/Manhunt (N.Y.C.)
Months, beginning in 2001, that the federal government’s online condom fact sheet disappeared from its website: 17
Months, beginning in 2001, that the federal government’s online condom fact sheet disappeared from its website: 17
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta)
Percentage change in the fourth quarter of 2008 in the number of new websites created worldwide: ???12
Percentage change in the fourth quarter of 2008 in the number of new websites created worldwide: ???12
Verisign Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.)
Scientists created crash helmets that stink when cracked and fruit flies to whom blue light smells delicious.
