Given the relative slowburning hysteria in the mediabistro office and at variouspointsontheWeb surrounding this morning's sale of our mothership, we thought we'd put the purchase price in a context New York media machers can understand:
383,000 shares of Dow Jones (or a 0.4% stake)
23 million games of Skee-Ball
11,500,000 Magnolia cupcakes (they're back in business, by the way)