So. Mediaite is a year old. Or, rather, a year and six days old. Or 1.02 years. As the site’s self-appointed data geek, I thought that this first birthday deserved a special data-oriented tribute.

While you were sleeping last night the world didn’t end. What did happen is the Large Hadron Collider, which many people speculated would suck the world up into a black hole last year when it was first turned on (it didn’t), last night achieved a record for high-energy collisions. This is apparently very important news as it has lead off three different news casts I’ve heard this morning.

Product placement can take the strangest forms. Exhibit A: a physics book that was on the floor of Tiger Woods‘ car when it crashed shot up more than 350,000 places on Amazon in the course of a day when the inevitable car crash photos leaked online. The book in question, Get A Grip On Physics, is currently going for $75.00, minimum, for a used copy. The real story here: might Tiger Woods be a Large Hadron Collider fanboy?