Daily Brad, the blog

I was cleaning out my bookshelf today, and found a Business 2.0 from April 2000 squeezed between some Print Magazines. The year 2000 was the at the height of the dot-com bubble, the same year where Super Bowl XXXIV featured seventeen dot-com companies that each paid over $2 million for a 30-second spot and CBS-backed iWon.com gave away $10 million to a lucky contestant in a 30-minute primetime special that aired on CBS. The magazine is nearly 5/8 inch thick and the majority of it advertisements, so I started flipping through it.

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In a feature article from connect magazine, there was a story about a new Salt Lake City Utah based promotion agency called MINDWISE. It took me a couple searches to find their website, which currently isn’t built out, though the article says they have officially opened for business and “…already engineered a slew of promotions locally and is in talks with various companies to handle upcoming events, promotions and sponsorships next year.”

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What do the following add up to?

70,000 litres of paint
358 single bottle bombs
33 sextuple air cluster bombs
22 Triple hung cluster bombs
268 mortars
33 Triple Mortars
22 Double mortars
358 meters of weld
330 meters of steel pipe
57 km of copper wire

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