One of the things people often want to know about photography at the Smithsonian is, “How many photographs do you have?” with the quick follow-up, “Have you counted all of them?” No one knows for certain, but statistical sampling suggests that there are over fifteen million pictures, in the form of prints, negatives, and digital files.

From: Too Many to Count « The Bigger Picture.

Back in the mid-1980s I and a partner developed a product for archiving photographs and images and indexing them via hypertext based on image archiving work I had done earlier at NASA.

Yeah yeah, I know, a product ahead of its time .

We immediately saw The Smithsonian and other major museums and archives in DC as possible  early adopters. Although we never implemented the system in DC, we did spend considerable time “behind the scenes” discussing the scope of the project.

Of the numbers that stuck in my mind, (...)
Hit the link for more: How Many Images are at the Smithsonian?

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Late last year, New York Governor David A. Paterson proposed an 18% sales tax on non-diet soda and sugary juice drinks for the fiscal year starting in April. Such a tax, he says, would raise $404 million this year and $539 million in 2010, to be used for fat-fighting public health programs

Snapshot Statistics:

1 – In New York State alone, an if 18% of the total retail value of non-diet soda and sugary juice drinks is $404 million, then the overall retail sales are $2.24 billion dollars for this year and  $2.94 billion for 2010.

6 more remarkable statistics after the jump.

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Hit the link for more: Snapshot Statistic #1-7: A Peek at The Scale of the Food Industry

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