The Federal Register, the daily journal of the United States government, still uses floppy disks to carry out important tasks, including the transfer of the text of executive orders, proposed rule changes, and presidential proclamations. Yes, floppy disks.

Did you know that you—if you are an average-type person—produce six newspapers' worth of information a day? And, get this, you receive 174 newspapers' worth of information. This is according to scientists, of course, who

The word "information" got a very long overhaul in the latest Oxford English Dictionary revision.

This chart maps the party identification of sports fans along with their propensity to actually vote. It's based on 218,000 surveys conducted by a GOP media research firm. Wrestling fans: strongly Democratic-leaning, but none of them vote.

Barack Obama has appointed designer and statistician Edward Tufte to the stimulus-monitoring Recovery Independent Advisory Panel. To a certain segment of the internet, this is like learning that Admiral Ackbar is the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Each Friday, NYT.com General Manager Vivian Schiller and 'Times' deputy managing editor Jonathan Landman write an in-house email on the subject of The Future and The Internet and The Newsroom. This week, do your own textual analysis: "Look at the nytimes.com homepage, or any section front. There's lots and lots of stuff. Words. Pictures. Headlines. (Big ones and little ones.) Ads. (Little ones and big ones.) Video. Vertical things. Horizontal things. Icons. Navigation bars. Tabs. It's a riot of activity. It's built around information—getting it before impatient users, grabbing little bites of attention span. Look again at T Online. Not so much stuff."