Does Your Kid Text Every Ten Minutes?

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It's not just you Atlanta! A great one from Chart of the Day.

American kids under 18 send and receive roughly 2,800 texts per month, according to Nielsen, or about 93 per day. Assuming 7 hours of sleep per night, on average, that's about 5.5 per hour spent awake, or one every 10 minutes or so. In the next two age brackets, text-message usage falls by more than half each.

But it's people ages 18-24 who talk the most on their cellphones, according to Nielsen, averaging 981 minutes per month. These are probably the people most likely to not have landline phones, so this also makes sense.

Georgia AT Plate - Almost to the Summit!

Word from the Appalachian Trail Conservancy is that Georgia is just a few applications away from securing its own AT license plate! Please apply now to get the AT represented on the road.

Not the outdoorsy type? Live vicariously through Collin Chamber as she completes the final days of her 2,179 mile hike from Georgia to the top of Mount Katahdin in Maine.

The iPad Leads Apple to the Elderly

The iPad's intuitive interface makes it appealing to senior citizens around the world, says Takahiro Miura, a researcher at the University of Tokyo: "The iPad is a good tool for the elderly because it's very forgiving of mistakes." Miura's team uses computers to help train senior citizens to rejoin the workforce. "Unlike the PC, it doesn't require prior knowledge," he says.

The iPad Leads Apple to the Elderly - BusinessWeek