The rise of fantasy sports has allowed the stat geek to rise as well.
Sabermetrics (created by a stat geek) is often used in baseball to fill out rosters.
Let's not forget the nerdy side of gambling, which often comes along with the Super Bowl.

President Hu Jintao: "Ogh! You must have very big pee-anis!"
President Obama: "Excuse me? I was just asking you what you’re up to with these cyber attacks on America Companies!"
President Hu Jintao: "Nothing. We are very simple people. With very small penis. This hacker's penis is especially small."
Chinese Hacker: [fakes a sob] "Uh, smuh, so small."
President Hu Jintao: "We cannot achieve much with so small penis. But you! Americans. Wow! Penis so big! SOOO big penis!"
President Obama: [flattered] "Well uh, he—I guess it is a pretty good size."
Chinese Hacker: "Minata, kite kite!" ["Everone, come come!" A group of Japanese women move in, chattering] "This-a man has veh-ry big penis!" [the women applaud]
Woman 1: Take takeru o da ne? ["It’s rather large, isn’t it?"]
Woman 2: Hai. ["Yes."]
Chinese Hacker: "Uh, hoh, what an enoah-mus penis-uh!"

I've seen something like this used at the Costco cafe. Seems to work easier than doing math.

So am I a dumbass for crossing a bridge, because it stands the chance of breaking?

I thought it was 42

"associating a piece of data with multiple categories" is simply how TFA summarized the patent. It's not that simple, patents rarely are. If you look at the patent in question, it has several claims that go into detail about the processes involved in their system. It's likely one of these processes that is the focal point.

Now, are these claims patentable? I don't know. there is a lot of long-windedness in patent claims, and it depends on how borad or narrow they are interpreted. Obviously the examiner found them to be narrow enough to be patentable. I doubt it's as simple as a one-to-many relation in a database, because even though examiners miss things, they really wouldn't have missed that. Maybe the judge will overturn it though, if he reads the patent more broadly.

Even is there was a DVR-viewing log, would it save your shows? Ok, you watch it on DVR, but chances are you don't watch the ads. An advertiser would be foolish to pay as much for an ad if actual "ad viewership" isn't all that great. So the show is less profitable for ABC, despite how cool it is, and is canned.

hey, I own a mac, and my friends say my dress is rather sloppy thank you

An Eagles stadium operator was angry the team didn't re-sign Brian Dawkins, let it be know on Facebook, and was subsequently fired.

I'm sure whatever body governs horse racing will object/prevent this, but can you imagine. Instead of putting your champion horse to stud, you just allow him to be cloned. 12 identical horses competing against each other.

I'm afraid all the government speak will scare off the everyday joe

I wonder if the majority of standalone GPS users utilize those functions. Or maybe they are soccer moms who upgraded to iPhones.

Either he writes well or I was an idiot when I was 13.