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Thousands Of LOST Fans Win Money In Mega Millions Drawing

If you were a LOST fan nerdy enough to play Hurley’s numbers in the big Mega Millions drawing you may have cashed in to the tune of $150.

Hurley’s numbers were 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 and the winning Mega Millions numbers were 4, 8, 15, 25, 47 with the Mega Ball number 42.

It’s not the $355 million jackpot of course (that will be split between two winners), but interestingly enough its almost exactly what you would need to pick up the entire LOST collection on DVD. Probably just a coincidence right? Either that or this is the best marketing campaign ever.

Starbucks unveils a new logo

Starbucks Corp. debuted a logo Wednesday that brings the iconic green Siren out of the circle and drops the words “Starbucks Coffee.”

“Was the Starbucks corporate office asleep through all of the Gap controversy when they tried changing their logo? Leave it alone! There’s nothing wrong with it,” a fan wrote on Starbucks’ Facebook page on Wednesday.

Viacom Sold Rock Band Franchise for $49.99?!?

Here’s what happens when a red-hot video game franchise goes cold: You can buy the whole company for the same price as a single copy of the game.

I had a hunch that Viacom sold off Harmonix, which makes the Rock Band games, at a steep discount last month. But I’m still surprised it was this cheap: I’m told that investment group Columbus Nova paid $49.99 — the list price for “Rock Band 3″ — and got the entire company.

The average American watches 34 hours of television per week

Americans watched more television than ever in 2010, according to the Nielsen Company. Total viewing of broadcast networks and basic cable channels rose about 1 percent for the year, to an average of 34 hours per person per week.

The generation-long shift to cable from broadcast continued, but subtly, as the smallest of the big four broadcast networks, NBC, still retained more than twice as many viewers as the largest basic cable channel, USA.