According to a bunch of people with a crapload of time on their hands, if you put all the data in the world on CDs and stacked them, it would reach beyond the moon.

How much information is there in the world? Enough that, if we put all the information we have on Earth on CD-ROMs, that stack of CDs would reach beyond the moon. That’s according to a team of scientists who published the first-ever inventory of the world’s capacity to store, communicate, and compute information – including numbers, sentences, images, and texts.

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Consumer Reports has come to the same conclusion we did a week ago…Best Buy’s “Buy Back” program kinda sucks. Trust me, you can do a lot better on Craigslist or eBay.

So under this plan, we decided to see what we’d receive if we brought in a 46-inch Samsung LCD TV (UN46B6000), purchased in December 2009 for $1,600. If the TV was in good condition, we could receive up to $480, although as HD Guru points out the term “up to” is somewhat vague, and it’s left to the discretion of CWG. But if the TV is deemed to be in poor condition, the most you’ll get back is $240. In both cases you’d have to subtract the upfront cost of the plan—$180—from the amount to see what you’d net. Under the best-case scenario the amount is $300, but it’s only $60 if the TV is deemed to be in poor condition.

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Forget about plunking down thousands of dollars and putting your name on a yearlong waiting list — to score New York’s latest “it” bag, you’re encouraged to eat the cow it comes from first.

Sold exclusively at the Williamsburg restaurant Marlow & Sons, Breton tote bags boast supple leather and a price tag that ranges from $300 to $400.

The latest in farm-to-table-to-closet fashion, the leather goods are crafted from the tanned hides of the same locally sourced, grass-fed cows and pigs served at Marlow & Sons, an eatery and dry-goods store, and at sister eateries Diner in Williamsburg and Roman’s in Fort Greene.

“[Look at] how quickly you can eat a burger, and that animal sacrifice for you is just gone. Whereas with the bag, that’s something that can last for generations and generations,” said Huling, whose husband, Andrew Tarlow, runs the trio of restaurants and a butcher shop with partner Mark Firth.

A beer so powerful just one gulp would push you over the drink-drive limit has gone on sale. Sink The Bismarck is believed to be the strongest beer in the world with a 41 per cent alcohol content. Brewed by Scottish firm BrewDog it costs £55 for a 330ml bottle.

The drink, which works out as £95 per pint, has four times as many hops than ordinary beers, say its makers. The beer is supposed to be drunk in small quantities because it is so strong and has been designed with a screw top so it can be resealed.