Year: 2007

Soda Pop trends 2004-2006

(The number of times Pepsi, Coke, Coca-Cola, Sprite, Mountain Dew were searched on Google) Coke spikes in July 2006 with rumor of secrets being sold. Ok, so there can be a sharp spike in searches when there’s a juicy news story that comes out–as with the case of the story that three people were accused …

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Interesting days with consecutive numbers in 2007

Mark May 6, July 7, and September 8 on your calendar this year! May 6 05/06/07 08:09 03:04 05/06/07 July 7 07/07/07 07:07 September 8 09/08/07 06:05 11:10 09/08/07 You can add these events to your calendar as an iCal feed in Google Calendar or 30boxes!

Name for this decade: The double oh’s

While in McDonalds there was this dude in his 40s talking to himself loudly. He was talking about how this year is the “two double-oh-seven.” That’s a cool name for this decade, “the double oh’s.” And “double oh seven” just makes the year 2007 even better.

2006 versus 2007 in Battle Royale

Sporting events 2006: Winter Olympics, World Baseball Classic, and the World Cup. 2007: No big crazy sporting events Winner: 2006 Chinese Year 2006: Year of the dog 2007: Year of the pig Winner: 2006 Year of 2006: Year of Mozart, marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 2007: International Polar Year …

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Favorite spudart.org post for 2006

I couldn’t pick a favorite post from 2006, so here’s my top 25 with notes: Seeing earth for the first time An interesting view of earth we normally don’t see The difference between one million and one billion A baby is one million seconds old. A 31-year-old is one billion seconds old. Trains in your …

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