[WelMac] Fwd: BEER LOSES TOP SPOT TO IPOD

[Jo Booth]

heh.

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> Just goes to show that the quality of education has dropped.
>
> BEER LOSES TOP SPOT TO IPOD
> For only the second time in ten years, drinking beer has been  
> relegated
> to second on Student Monitor's biannual survey of what is "in" on
> campus, with iPods slotting in at number one. The only other thing to
> unseat beer: the Internet, in 1997. Eric Weil of Student Monitor said
> of the latest results of its Lifestyle and Media Study, "We knew iPods
> were pervasive on campus as a learning and entertainment device,  
> but we
> didn't see it rating that high." Between spring 2006 and spring 2006,
> iPods jumped from 59 percent of students saying they were "in" to 73
> percent. Rounding out the top ten spots on the survey are Facebook
> (which tied beer for second), drinking other alcohol, text messaging,
> downloading music, going to clubs, instant messaging, working out, and
> coffee. Dan Updegrove, vice president for information technology at  
> the
> University of Texas at Austin, pointed out that the speed with which
> "Internet-based phenomena can emerge" accounts for having so many
> technologies on the top ten that did not even exist several years ago.
> USA Today, 7 June 2006
>
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-06-07-ipod-tops-beer_x.htm>

Jo 'Mangee' Booth
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http://mangee.net.nz
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