@sternshow: digital farts

Yesterday's Stern show appearance came because on This Week in Google, we'd made fun of Howard Stern for using Lotus Notes still and Howard's geek guru, Jeff Schick of IBM, rose up in protest and invited me in to see how the show uses it.

Start with Stern technology: Schick said they they digitize everything — every show, every bit of audio, every press clipping, even everything sent into the show. They scan all the fan mail. They scan dildoes. This adds up to 100 terabytes of data. That's...