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Tokyo, 2010.03.09

In keeping with my attempts at keeping abreast of events in "the old country", I came across an interesting item from The Big Game.

During the gold medal round of the Men's Hockey event at the Olympics, an estimated 80% of the country watched the game. That's 27 million people.

The water utility in Edmonton released a graph of water usage in the city that showed how the high viewership of the game impacted that usage. It's amazing.

I wonder what televised events could cause this to happen in Japan?

rand()m quote

I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

—Terry Pratchett (as Lord Vetinari)