11. Surfing the Web with Your PSP

Did you know that there are 2,598,960 possible combinations of cards in a standard five-card poker hand? Or that the 47-mile-wide Strait of Otranto is all that separates Italy from Albania? Do you realize that the fat guy on “Cheers” (not Norm—the other fat guy) was named Paul? Or that Rutger Hauer actually improvised the “tears in the rain” part of Roy Batty’s soliloquy at the end of Blade Runner?

The World Wide Web has more information, useless and otherwise, stuffed within its bounds than any human being could possibly fathom. How much of it is true is anyone’s guess (my personal guess: about 46 percent). Some of it is useful. You can get weather forecasts, breaking news, and movie reviews by hundreds of ...

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