Above: The speeding fine is worth more than the Porsche 911 GT3!

[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 the biggest difference. According to some, like Savon Sanomat,

if the speed had been 80 km/h the fine would have been only 115 Euros

Talk about being unfortunate!

Full story here: [Finnish millionaire gets 111,888-euro speeding ticket | Global Motors]

This made me laugh early this morning.

Beer, beer, beer, cat, beer… wait, what? [PIC]

from Tinypic

Record to date is 3 hours.

hehe.

[Photo taken by ChrisThorn]

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 by Beatcrave:

• No style of music is dominant in the intelligence zones (which begs the question whether there is any link at all)
• SAT tests are considered inaccurate when determining intelligence

The list is below:

Click on the image to enlarge

The study wasn’t meant to be particularly scientific or inclined to prove anything, but it does make up for some very interesting results.

[VIRGIL.GRiffith (Virgil Griffith's website)]

[Music That Makes You Dumb? | Beatcrave]

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 or a patch of grass) energy is energy.

And as GOOD puts it,

So, how many calories are in a gallon of gas?

Click on the image to zoom in.

This ingenious image was designed by Athletic.

[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 in and compiled to create the World’s Most Admired and Hated Companies 2009.

Results:

Predictably, Apple won first place.

A couple notable companies include

• Toyota in third
• Google in fourth
• Microsoft in tenth
• Walmart in eleventh
• McDonalds in sixteenth (big surprise for me)
• Bank of America in twenty-sixth (ironic)

Other popular companies such as Nike, Nokia BMW, IBM, Sony and Intel made the cut (with a surprisingly high number of the companies being computer / electronic / cellphone companies)

Check out the full top 50 here.

[World's Most Admired Companies | Fortune]

[photo by buck82]

We’ve all read about how grocery stores and shops all over the world trick us into buying more than we should… and more than we can.

From ReadersDigest.com, we have a list of 13 things your grocer won’t tell you that could actually benefit you in more ways than one. Get Smart!

Below are a few of the best tips. Click on the link below for a full run-down.

This tip also applies for restaurants… it’s a tip I sometimes exploit if you want a quiet time:

1. If you hate crowds and lines, shop at dinnertime (5 to 9 p.m.) or even later. Only 4 percent of shoppers hit the aisles between 9 p.m. and 8 a.m. Least-crowded day of the week? Wednesday.

4. That star fruit has been here a lot longer than the broccoli. Familiar produce turns over more quickly than exotic things.

Just be wary… if you’ve had a long day you might not want to bend over or reach high to get a slightly better deal, this trick exploits laziness.

8. I’m not just selling groceries, I’m selling real estate. Look high and low-literally-for good values from smaller manufacturers who can’t afford to stock their products in the eye-level sweet spot.

[13 Things your Grocer Won't Tell You | ReadersDigest.com]

[picture credit: hey mr glen]

The store is called The Guitar Store and it is on Commercial Road opposite Southampton Central railway station, Southampton, England.

The caption from Utah Division of Wildlife Resources reads:

Five bighorn sheep slung from a helicopter and being transplanted to Desolation Canyon. Photo taken 1-15-09 by Brad Crompton, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.

“Have you seen this cat? Because it is AWESOME.”

It made me laugh at least

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