Bite Size News: Eat It, Lakers

Watching The Ball Drop

A Somerville Girl Scout sold 1000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. Thin Mints come 32 to a box, and have 40 calories each, so that's 1,280,000 calories sold. Delish! [Wicked Local Somerville]

(Un)healthy drinks exposed: Vitamin"Water" is actually loaded with sugar, and has more calories than three Thin Mints. [Consumerist]

You can now save your money to buy expensive (and unhealthy) drinks instead of wireless subscriptions at Starbucks, because Harvard Square has free wi-fi. [Harvard Crimson]

Amazon.com was down for a little while earlier today. Oh noes! How were we supposed to order our dead rabbits? [Consumerist]

We proved yesterday that Charlie's a commie; now reports say the MBTA is in the red due to high gas prices. Go figure. [Wicked Local Somerville]

Speaking of being in the red, the DOW is dropping and oil prices just keep rising. [Herald, Globe]

Bruce Willis and Anya Monzikova are filming The Surrogates at Mass and Comm. [Beantown Bloggery]

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