Austin, By the Numbers

• Estimated damage of last week's hailstorm in San Marcos: $100 million [link]
• Percentage of Austin school district students who went on to college, in 2005: 57 [link]
• Final count of UT students whose private information, including SSNs, was compromised, according to official figures: 106,000 [link]
• Estimated value of electronic equipment stolen from Westlake Hills Presbyterian Church by a former church employee and his cohorts: $13,000 [link]
• Approximate horn span, in inches, of MooTube's world record-holding steer "Watson," from tip-to-tip: 100 [link]
• Projected growth, in percentages, of Austin's job market, through 2015: 24.7 [link]
• Total value of "clothes, phone cards, books, diapers and other supplies" that Katrina aid worker Maria Azucena Zarzoza stole from donated goods in exchange for Sam's Club store credit: $601.03 [link]
• Percentage of her body that 10-month old "Mercy," a pit bull mix puppy, was burned after being stabbed "several times," doused with gasoline, and set on fire by 21-year old Deshawn Brown: 60 [link]
• Number of major employers in Austin named in annual Business Ethics magazine rankings of 100 Best Corporate Citizens: 8 [link]
• Rank of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD): 3
• Number of jobs that the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce aims to create in this region by 2008: 72,000 [link]
• Days that APD officer Christopher Gray has been suspended for beating up Ramon Hernandez, a handcuffed suspect, on camera: 70 [link]
• Average amount paid by state prison inmates to have cell phones smuggled into jail: 300-600 [link]
• Number of said phones found last year: 135
• Amount that Prop 1 will cost the city to implement, according to the city itself: $36 million
• Amount that cleanaustin.org claims: $3
• Minimum number of Texas service members who have died in Iraq since March 2003, according to the DoD: 205 [link]
• Number of wanted fugitives rounded up in Austin during this week's National Crime Victims Week: Nearly 300
• Austin's average daily water use, in gallons: 141 million [link]
• Approximate amount of state tax on cigarettes, in packs, after Texas House OK'd new increase: $1.41 [link]
• Number of high-tech geeks descending upon Austin during next week's World Congress on Information Technology: 2000 [link]
• Minimum number of times the word "debauchery" has appeared in a post on Austinist, according to Rollyo: 83 [link]
• Minimum number of times the word "awesome" has appeared in an Austinist post, according to Rollyo: 445 [link]

*Photo by Matt Wright on flickr. Idea lifted from Harper's.