[photo credit: simons.jasper]
His name is Jari Bär, and he’s a Finnish millionaire that became the victim of one of Finland’s traffic laws: The amount you are fined for is directly proportional to how much you earn!
Jari Bär was doing 82 km/h in a 60km /h zone in Finland in January 2009.
That extra 2km/h made [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Millionaire Gets 111,888 Euro Speeding Fine
Fridge Cat
This made me laugh early this morning.
Beer, beer, beer, cat, beer… wait, what? [PIC]
from Tinypic
Toilet Sign
This is a little gem found at Culi Cafe in Vietnam in 2007:
Record to date is 3 hours.
hehe.
[Photo taken by ChrisThorn]
Does Musical Taste Influence Intelligence?
Virgil Griffith (pictured below), a CalTech grad student, conducted a rather interesting study that links SAT scores with music tastes.
The results are very, very interesting with the brightest students favouring Beethoven, whilst Lil ‘Wayne seemed to be enjoyed by the *less* bright students.
A couple notable things to point out regarding the study though, as noticed [...]
Fuel Consumption: Car vs Human
Humans eat food, whilst cars “eat” fuel.
This interesting series of facts puts it into perspective how effiecent humans are compared to vehicles. If you paid attention during biology / science you’d know that energy is measured in calories (or joules) and no matter which way you look at it (whether it’s petrol, wood, a burger [...]
World’s 50 Most Admired Companies Announced
[photo by PakistanHousing.pk]
Fortune has conducted their annual survey where they ask businessmen and businesswomen a series of questions. They are asked
to vote for the companies that they admired most, from any industry.
This prompted many different criteria, listed below:
Innovation
People management
Use of corporate assets
Social Responsibility
Quality of Management
Financial Soundness
Long-term investment
Quality of products/services
Global competitiveness
The results are taken [...]
