The amount lost on your pay check for every extra letter in your name, according to the career search website, TheLadders. It mined user data to show that the shorter your first name, the bigger your paycheck. Extra letters come at a cost of a cool $3,600, the website says. Good for you, Ted, Jim and Bob. (TheLadders Blog)
The number of computers hacked by 18 middle school students at a school in Alaska who snagged administrators’ log-ins and used it to mess with classmates. Talk about a recipe for detention. Here’s hoping they grow up to use their hacking skills for good, not evil. (via BBC)
The number of years Fox’s reality TV show “Cops” ran on prime-time television. After 900 episodes it has earned the crown as the longest-running show on prime-time television. The show moves to Spike TV this fall. (Hollywood Reporter)
The number of singers celebrating the opening of their namesake museum in Stockholm, Sweden, this week. ABBA (Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Faltskog) has sold 400 million records in its musical tenure. The museum includes scale models of the band’s kitchen and a little cottage where some of musical magic happened. (LA Times)
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