Amazon Holiday Cheer

Sounds like Amazon had a good holiday:

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 26, 2008--Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the 2008 holiday season finished as its best ever, with over 6.3 million items ordered worldwide on the peak day, Dec. 15, which is a record-breaking 72.9 items per second... (more)

73 items/sec...that's about 260,000/hr. I was packing boxes on Dec 15, averaging maybe 40 items/hr, so I must have had about 6,000 virtual brethren working alongside me, building CWF-54 and Pack-A's at those long tables. Sometimes it's neat to be part of something big!