2007 facts and facts about 2007s, from the Random Facts shelf.
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Walter Payton had the flu when he broke the NFL record with 275 rushing yards when Chicago played Minn 11/20/77.
Corey Dillon broke this record in 2000 rushing for 278 yards Cincinnati vs Denver (10-22-2000)
The record was then broken by Jamal Lewis in 2003 (295), and again in 2007 by Adrian Peterson (296) against the San Diego (and LaDainian Tomlinson) amazingly in his rookie season.
The United States, land of the free*
* As of 2007 your freedom may vary.
The portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the penny shows him facing to the right while all other portraits of presidents on U.S. circulating coins face left.
As of 2007 it now costs more than 1 cent to produce 1 cent.
"We have entered the Integration Age " - Steve Jobs CEO Apple...
The integration age has been mentioned for nearly a decade as a product name or marketing slogan. Now in 2007 it's hard not to see that a new era has arrived.
The integration age is the evolution of the information age. The integration age is made possible by the evolution of information management (search engines, bill pay, etc.) and information sharing (wikipedia.org, meetup.com, myspace.com) .
In fact a whole new generation of businesses that emerged (or came of age in Apple's case).
Google, Apple, eBay, Amazon, PayPal, myspace.com, youtube.com, craigslist.org, technorati.com, del.icio.us are just some of the big winners.
They share a common bond, right? They helped facilitate the creation and navigation of information and in the process dramatically affecting what is now possible.
The integration age is marked by globalization and specialization. It means highly integrated and efficient systems on the macro level thanks to specialization on the micro level. It is an age where Walmart rules because of their ability to effectively manage moving pieces. Did you know that Dell does not build computers and Nike does not make shoes?
The information age meant more information than any person or corporation could possibly handle, and businesses that specialized in the information age thrive in the integration age.
It is the IPhone that will likely be the symbol of the dawn of the integration age. An elegant merger of technologies, who would've thought it would take so long to merge the cell phone with the music player effectively.
Evidence that the integration age is well under way is seen in more and more places every day.
You can use www.salesforce.com to find clients, subcontractors off the Internet to implement services, and an accountant to keep track of it.
VA hospitals can access patient records from any location
www.zillow.com integrates Google maps and publicly available housing information giving anybody a reasonable estimate of the house prices on your block
Today's vehicles offer GPS, video screens, satellite, radio, oh, and talking maps
Social networks like www.myspace.com, www.blogger.com, and www.youtube.com, and open-source software all leverage information-age technologies to create a new type of social system that has had a profound impact on culture and the media.
You can now run Windows on your Macintosh
hackers now can control massive networks of zombie machines (1.5 million computers in one case) that act in co-operation (called botnets). These botnets might peddle spam and attack networks.
Welcome to the integration age.
"Poker" was the most searched keyword phrase on lycos.com in 2007.
When a poll tells us a candidate for president of the United States is favored by ___% of the population, they tell us it has a "margin of error" of +-__% .
For example, August 6, 2008, CBS poll on the president of the United States put John McCain with 39% of the vote and Barrak Obama 45% of the vote, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
The World Fact Book reports U.S. population at over 300 million, 301,139,947 (estimate as of 2007).
How many people do you think you'd have to poll to get within plus or minus 3% or 300,000 of the correct vote?
10 million? 1 million? This particular CBS pre-poll accurately extrapolates the minds of over 300 million people by polling just 906 people, or .00009 % of the population.
We're not so different after all!