Ready to pay $310,000 for a cell phone? Take a look. There are two countries in the world that buy most of these phones — United Arab Emirates and...Russia :-)
P.S iPhone can get expensive too. This one is around $200K
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Daylight saving time (DST).
Do not forget to shift your life back one hour this weekend.
Some interesting facts:
The practice of DST is controversial. Adding daylight to afternoons benefits retailing, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours, but causes problems for farming and other occupations tied to the sun.
An early goal of DST was to reduce evening usage of incandescent lighting, formerly a primary use of electricity; modern heating and cooling usage patterns can cause DST to increase electricity consumption (power companies of course have nothing to do with this law).
Hawaii and some parts of Arizona ignore this.
Each year in the U.S., the Daylight Saving Time period closes near the end of October, about a week before Election Day. The extension of Daylight Saving Time into November has been proposed as a way to encourage greater voter participation.
Some interesting facts:
The practice of DST is controversial. Adding daylight to afternoons benefits retailing, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours, but causes problems for farming and other occupations tied to the sun.
An early goal of DST was to reduce evening usage of incandescent lighting, formerly a primary use of electricity; modern heating and cooling usage patterns can cause DST to increase electricity consumption (power companies of course have nothing to do with this law).
Hawaii and some parts of Arizona ignore this.
Each year in the U.S., the Daylight Saving Time period closes near the end of October, about a week before Election Day. The extension of Daylight Saving Time into November has been proposed as a way to encourage greater voter participation.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Statistics — the greatest tool ever!
For some reason, no one is paying lots of attention to a really great tool in the making — Google Trends.
Here is some interesting trends
#1: If you are a high tech industry investor, looking for a company to invest at hight risk high return, take a look at this trend for example. As you can see, interest to a blogging industry have steady uptrend ..
#2: This one just proves a well known fact about new year resolutions..Weight Watchers ..
#3 Another well known fact proved—Xmas online shopping
Here is some interesting trends
#1: If you are a high tech industry investor, looking for a company to invest at hight risk high return, take a look at this trend for example. As you can see, interest to a blogging industry have steady uptrend ..
#2: This one just proves a well known fact about new year resolutions..Weight Watchers ..
#3 Another well known fact proved—Xmas online shopping
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008
The biggest diamond offered for sale.
© AP/Sang Tan/Scanpix
The biggest diamond offered for sale in Hong Kong (May 28th)
101.27 carats. Starting bid — $6,000,000
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
On the way to become a hamburger.
The Humane Society of the United States conducted an investigation.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Did you know?
That Venezuela's time differs from neighboring countries by half an hour? Nepal even worse — 15 minutes.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
No wonder they live longer than us.
© Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images
Iraq/Turkey border. Really hard earned money. Click on image to enlarge.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Monday, January 14, 2008
America too expensive
Kidnapper & Chinese Hostage Negotiator
"I have 3 demands or I kill the boy!"
Negotiators assess the situation from next door.
Head Negotiator dispatched
Negotiations begin
Negotiations concluded
In this country, we would block off the street,
take 12 hours to talk him out of it, spend $5
million giving him a fair trial, and pay his food
and lodging for life.
No wonder their products are cheaper
than ours!!!
"I have 3 demands or I kill the boy!"
Negotiators assess the situation from next door.
Head Negotiator dispatched
Negotiations begin
Negotiations concluded
In this country, we would block off the street,
take 12 hours to talk him out of it, spend $5
million giving him a fair trial, and pay his food
and lodging for life.
No wonder their products are cheaper
than ours!!!
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