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["Jerry W. Shepperd" <shepperd AT austincc.edu>]

these statistics may be of interest:

Computer Electronics in the World
3.3 billion mobile phones
1.7 billion TV sets
1 billion PCs
100 million iPods
50 million Nintendo DS consoles
3.8 million Blackberrys
By 2010 (less than 2 years from now), 4 billion people will have mobile 
phones.

China has 500 million mobile phones. The US population is a bit over 
300 million.

In a recent poll, more than 70 percent of teenagers said they would 
give up TV before giving up their computers or the Internet.

The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the 
population of the planet (6 billion).

"Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that 
it has to be us."
        -- Jerry Garcia
             The Grateful Dead