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Lego!

Wow! The Lego brick turns 50 at exactly 1:58pm today, January 28, 2008!

Here are some facts about Lego (you can see a time line here):

• There are about 62 Lego bricks for every one of the world's 6 billion inhabitants.


• Children around the world spend 5 billion hours a year playing with Lego bricks.


• More than 400 million people around the world have played with Lego bricks.


• 19 billion Lego elements are produced every year.


• There are more than 915 million combinations possible for six 2 x 4 Lego bricks of the same color.


• 7 Lego sets are sold by retailers every second around the world.


• The Lego bricks sold in one year would circle the world 5 times.


• Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, used Lego bricks to build the external low-cost and expandable casing for 10 4GB hard disks when they were busy developing the Google search engine (today, they have reportedly been used in Google's college graduate recruiting exercises to test potential candidate's creative horsepower).


• If stacked on top of one another, all the Lego pieces ever made would form 10 towers reaching all the way from the Earth to the Moon.
  

Millie Gets A Tooth!

Millie got her first tooth on Saturday!! And it's New Year (Happy New Year!)! And I love HTML, Javascript, and CSS! Which is why all this text is blinking! Just use the < blink > and < /blink > tags (but don't put the spaces in). And we got Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga for the Wii! It has all the episodes and 360 levels!