50 Great Journeys

Hike - The Inca Trail Peru
Drive - Route 66
Gondola - Venice
Riverboat - The Amazon
Husky Sledding - Swedish Lapland
Camel Safari - Across the Sahara Desert
Hike - The Tongariro Crossing, New Zealand
Train - West Highland Railway, Scotland
Balloon - Over the Cappadocia, Turkey
Great Drives - Highway 1, California
Great Drives - ICEFIELDS PARKWAY, Canada
Great Drives - GREAT KAROO, South Africa
Tour - The Silk Road
Cycle - Lands End to John O'Groats, UK
Canoe - Okavango Delta, Botswana
Hike - The Great Wall of China
Great Walks - Lake District, UK
Great Walks - Milford Track, New Zealand
Great Walks - The Dolomites, Italy
Scooter - The Amalfi Coast, Italy
Train - The Eastern and Oriental Express
Explore - The Wonders of Egypt
Track - Mountain Gorillas, Uganda
Hike - The Lost World, Venezuala
Fly - To the North Pole
Cruise - Norwegian Fjords
Cycle Trips - Cuba
Cycle Trips - Atlas Mountain, Morocco
Cycle Trips - Loire Valley, France
Cruise - Panama Canal, Central America
Train - Glacier Express, Switzerland
Ice Trek - Moreno Glacier, Patagonia
Sail - Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Cycle - The Mekong Delta, Vietnam
4 X 4 Safari - Serengeti, Tanzania
Steam Boat - Up the Mississippi
Slow Boat to the Timbuktu
Tall Ship across the Indian Ocean - Goa to Phuket
Cycle - Camino de Santiago, Spain
4 X 4 - Outback Australia
Cruise - River Thames, London
Drive - Classic Car, Cornwall
Train - The Ghan, Australia
Train - Shinkansen, Japan
Train - Trans-Siberian Express

Source - Sport Maagazine - http://www.myfreesport.co.uk/images/stories/issues/73/Sport073.pdf

50 Things a Man Should Never Do After the Age of 30

1. Use the word party as a verb.

2. Shots.

3. Body shots.

4. Jell-O shots. Especially Jell-O shots.

5. Read a book with the words Zen and the Art of in the title.

6. Do impressions of Austin Powers characters, especially Dr. Evil.

7. Help friends move.

8. Ask friends to help you move.

9. Crash on a friend's floor or couch.

10. Refer to breasts as "chesticles."

11. Experiment with facial hair.

12. Let your underpants show above your jeans or below your shorts.

13. Apply paint to your face for any reason at all.

14. Own beer-drinking paraphernalia.

15. Own a skull bong.

16. Know the names of the current Real World cast.

17. Remove your shirt in public--unless there is sand and a large body of water nearby.

18. Use the word dude, except when referring to a ranch or a well-dressed Englishman.

19. Use the word dawg in a sentence when referring to a friend or, worse, yourself.

20. Own a futon.

21. Own a beanbag chair.

22. Hang art framelessly.

23. Hang tapestries.

24. Drink malternative beverages.

25. Don a puka-bead necklace.

26. Google ex-girlfriends.

27. Break up with a girlfriend by e-mail.

28. Engage in pranks involving airborne food.

29. Own a Lava lamp.

30. Pool hop.

31. Live with someone you don't sleep with.

32. Share a hotel room with someone you don't sleep with.

33. Play fantasy sports.

34. Divide a restaurant bill with a friend in any way other than 50-50.

35. Sleep past 10:30.

36. Refer to a woman's genitalia as her "nappy dugout."

37. Cook exclusively on a George Foreman grill.

38. Wear a jersey with the name of a professional athlete on the back.

39. Employ any other pickup line besides "Hi, my name is _____. What's yours?"

40. Listen to Pink Floyd.

41. Use Internet acronyms, especially ROFL and LOL.

42. Shave any part of your body except your face.

43. Enjoy Jerry Bruckheimer movies.

44. Run with the bulls in Pamplona.

45. Attend Mardi Gras, Carnaval, or Burning Man.

46. Own a fish tank.

47. Fall asleep in public.

48. Call drugs by their street names (e.g., junk, smack, or whitebag).

49. Pick a fistfight by thrusting out your neck, flexing, and screaming, "It's go time!"

MILLION-DOLLAR IDEAS Puppy-leasing business (trade 'em in when they get old) . . . Bathroom snack dispenser . . . Erotica radio station . . . Off-road stroller . . . Occam's electric razor, for intellectual men . . . Dashboard snooze alarm . . . Steak- flavored envelopes . . . Don't Do What I Did, an advice book from homeless people, prostitutes, and Enron executives

Source: Esquire

Top 100 Global Brands

1.Coca-Cola
2.Microsoft
3.IBM
4.GE
5.Nokia
6.Toyota
7.Intel
8.McDonald's
9.Disney
10.Mercedes-Benz

And the Rest:
Citi
Hewlett-Packard
BMW
Marlboro
American Express
Gillette
Louis Vuitton
Cisco
Honda
Google
Samsung
Merrill Lynch
HSBC
Nescafe
Sony
Pepsi
Oracle
UPS
Nike
Budweiser
Dell
JPMorgan
Apple
SAP
Goldman Sachs
Canon
Morgan Stanley
Ikea
UBS
Kellogg's
Ford
Philips
Siemens
Nintendo
Harley-Davidson
Gucci
AIG
eBay
AXA
Accenture
L’Oréal
MTV
Heinz
Volkswagen
Yahoo!
Xerox
Colgate
Chanel
Wrigley's
KFC
Gap
Amazon.com
Nestle
Zara
Avon
Caterpillar
Danone
Audi
Adidas
Kleenex
Rolex
Hyundai
Hermes
Pizza Hut
Porsche
Reuters
Motorola
Panasonic
Tiffany
Allianz
ING
Kodak
Cartier
BP
Moët & Chandon
Kraft
Hennessy
Starbucks
Duracell
Johnson & Johnson
Smirnoff
Lexus
Shell
Prada
Burberry
Nivea
LG
Nissan
Polo RL
Hertz

Source : BusinessWeek

The Top 200 H1-B Users

Rank Employer H1-B Visa Count
1 INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES 4,908
2 WIPRO 4,002
3 MICROSOFT 3,117
4 TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES 3,046
5 SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES 2,880
6 COGNIZANT TECH SOLUTIONS U.S. 2,226
7 PATNI COMPUTER SYSTEMS 1,391
8 IBM 1,130
9 ORACLE 1,022
10 LARSEN & TOUBRO INFOTECH 947
11 HCL AMERICA 910
12 DELOITTE & TOUCHE 890
13 CISCO SYSTEMS 828
14 INTEL 828
15 I-FLEX SOLUTIONS 817
16 ERNST & YOUNG 774
17 TECH MAHINDRA AMERICAS 770
18 MOTOROLA 760
19 MPHASIS 751
20 DELOITTE CONSULTING 66

Source: BusinessWeek
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World's 10 Best Restaurants

The El Bulli has consistently been rated the Best Restuarant in the World by quite a few surveys/magazines - Definitely on the Do before you die list. Glad to see the Bukhara in Maurya Sheraton in Delhi on the list (#37), and as THE best in Asia. Definitely going there on my next trip to Delhi.

Here's the Top 10:
1 El Bulli Spain
2 The Fat Duck UK
3 Pierre Gagnaire France
4 The French Laundry USA
5 Tetsuya's Australia
6 Bras France
7 Mugaritz Spain
8 Le Louis XV Monaco
9 Per Se USA
10 Arzak Spain

For the entire list, Click HERE

Source: The Restaurant Magazine

The World's Richest Football Clubs

1)Real Madrid: £202m
2)Barcelona: £179.1m
3)Juventus: £173.7m
4)Man Utd: £167.8m
5)AC Milan: £165m
6)Chelsea: £152.8m
7)Inter Milan: £142.8m
8)Bayern Munich: £141.5m
9)Arsenal: £133m
10)Liverpool: £121.7m

Source: Deloitte 2005/6

Best Countries to Live

Quality of Life :

1. France
2. Australia
3. Netherlands
4. New Zealand
5. USA
6. Switzerland
7. Denmark
8. Italy
9. Luxembourg
10.Argentina
22. Canada
37. UK

Source: International Living