One pound for them. Nine pounds for you. Happy Halloween.
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This map made by chartsbin.com shows halloween celebration around the world.
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A timeline of the evolution of Halloween, including some fun facts about pumpkins and the ingredients and annual consumption of candy corn.
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Halloween is one of America’s biggest revenue-generating holidays. And get this: the tradition thrived even during the spooky economy of the past couple of years. Costume sales jumped 5.1% in 2008 and another 2.4% in 2009.
In this infographic, mint.com explore the economics of Halloween: read on, some of the stats may give you chills!via www.mint.comNote: If you read this via Email or Feed-reader click Permalink below to download bigger image.
Do Americans like candy? They like it to the tune of $20 billion a year! That's right- Americans spend $20 billion on their sweet little vices. They're out there night and day buying candy bars, chocolates, hardy candy and everything else that packs in the sugar.
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Halloween History gives you spooky details on the origins of Halloween, some of which goes back 2,000 years.
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This map made by chartsbin.com shows the percentage of foreign prisoners within each national prison population. Foreign prisoners includes men and women held in penal institutions, as pre-trial detainees (remand prisoners) or having been convicted and sentenced, in the world
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How do you measure the effects of the internet on the economy? A Google funded report published today answers this question and concludes the internet business in the UK made £100 billion in 2009.
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Tableau Software is the leading provider of fast analytics and data visualization software. Tableau Public visualizations have been viewed more than 7.5 million times since our February launch. That viewership is a direct result of talented and creative authors. To celebrate those authors and their vizes, they have made their own visualization, showing the top 100 Tableau Public views by traffic in Q3 of 2010.Take a look and as always,interactive!via www.tableausoftware.com
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Do you know how the internet really works -- how you're able to read this article on a magical glowing rectangle attached to a keyboard?
This cheat sheet created by flowchart guru Doogie Horner explain the inner workings of the web to someone even less informed. via www.fastcodesign.comNote: If you read this via Email or Feed-reader click Permalink below to download bigger image.