Wednesday, August 23, 2006

The World's 10 Richest Tech Titans

1 Bill Gates Microsoft Co-founder $50 billion
2 Paul Allen Microsoft Co-founder $22 billion
3 Michael Dell Dell, Founder $17.1 billion
4 Larry Ellison Oracle, Co-founder $16 billion
5 Steve Ballmer Microsoft CEO $13.6 billion
6 Azim Premji Wipro Chairman $13.3 billion
7/8 Sergey Brin and Larry Page Google Co-Founders(Brin): $12.9 billion (Page): $12.8 billion
9 Pierre Omidyar eBay Founder $10.1 billion
10 Hasso Plattner SAP Founder $6.4 billion

Thursday, August 17, 2006

10 Longest Movies in Bollywood

Source : Rediff

1. LOC: Kargil (2003, 4 hours, 15 minutes)
2. Mera Naam Joker (1970, 4 hours, four minutes)
3. Sangam (1964, 3 hours, 58 minutes)
4. Lagaan (2001, three hours, 44 minutes)
5. Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006, 3 hours, 35 minutes)
6. Swades (2004, 3 hours, 30 minutes)
7. Bose: The Forgotten Hero (2005, 3 hours, 28 minutes)
8. Waqt (1965, 3 hours, 26 minutes)
9. Hum Aapke Hain Koun (1994, three hours, 26 minutes)
10.Sholay (1975, 3 hours, 24 minutes)

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

The Top 100 Global Universities

Source : Newsweek

Global Universities = Those seeking students from around the world who represent the entire specĀ­ trum of cultures and values, sending their own students abroad to prepare them for global careers, offering courses of study that address the challenges of an interĀ­ connected world and collaborative research programs to advance science for the benefit of all humanity.

1. Harvard University
2. Stanford University
3. Yale University
4. California Institute of Technology
5. University of California at Berkeley
6. University of Cambridge
7. Massachusetts Institute Technology
8. Oxford University
9. University of California at San Francisco
10. Columbia University
11. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
12. University of California at Los Angeles
13. University of Pennsylvania
14. Duke University
15. Princeton Universitty
16. Tokyo University
17. Imperial College London
18. University of Toronto
19. Cornell University
20. University of Chicago
21. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
22. University of Washington at Seattle
23. University of California at San Diego
24. Johns Hopkins University
25. University College London
26. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
27. University Texas at Austin
28. University of Wisconsin at Madison
29. Kyoto University
30. University of Minnesota Twin Cities
31. University of British Columbia
32. University of Geneva
33. Washington University in St. Louis
34. London School of Economics
35. Northwestern University
36. National University of Singapore
37. University of Pittsburgh
38. Australian National University
39. New York University
40. Pennsylvania State University
41. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
42. McGill University
43. Ecole Polytechnique
44. University of Basel
45. University of Maryland
46. University of Zurich
47. University of Edinburgh
48. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
49. University of Bristol
50. University of Sydney
51. University of Colorado at Boulder
52. Utrecht University
53. University of Melbourne
54. University of Southern California
55. University of Alberta
56. Brown University
57. Osaka University
58. University of Manchester
59. University of California at Santa Barbara
60. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
61. Wageningen University
62. Michigan State University
63. University of Munich
64. University of New South Wales
65. Boston University
66. Vanderbilt University
67. University of Rochester
68. Tohoku University
69. University of Hong Kong
70. University of Sheffield
71. Nanyang Technological University
72. University of Vienna
73. Monash University
74. University of Nottingham
75. Carnegie Mellon University
76. Lund University
77. Texas A&M University
78. University of Western Australia
79. Ecole Normale Super Paris
80. University of Virginia
81. Technical University of Munich
82. Hebrew University of Jerusalem
83. Leiden University
84. University of Waterloo
85. King's College London
86. Purdue University
87. University of Birmingham
88. Uppsala University
89. University of Amsterdam
90. University of Heidelberg
91. University of Queensland
92. University of Leuven
93. Emory University
94. Nagoya University
95. Case Western Reserve University
96. Chinese University of Hong Kong
97. University of Newcastle
98. Innsbruck University
99. University of Massachusetts at Amherst
100. Sussex University

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Top 10 British Actors and Actresses of all times

Top 10 British actors of all time:
1. Sean Connery
2. Anthony Hopkins
3. Alec Guinness
4. Michael Caine
5. Laurence Olivier
5. Richard Burton
7. Cary Grant
8. John Mills
9. Richard Attenborough
10.Peter Sellers

Top 10 British actresses of all time:
1. Judi Dench
2. Julie Walters
3. Elizabeth Taylor
4. Helen Mirren
5. Julie Andrews
6. Maggie Smith
7. Thora Hird
7. Vanessa Redgrave
9. Kate Winslet
10.Emma Thompson

Source: Opinion Poll conducted by YouGov for Sky

The top 10 burglary-prone cities in UK - And the Safest

Top Ten Most at Risk from Household Theft :

1 Nottingham
2 Hull
3 Leeds
4 Bristol
5 Oxford
6 Manchester
7 Derby
8 Reading
9 London
10 Sheffield

Top Ten Least at Risk from Household Theft :

1 Guildford
2 Coventry
3 Edinburgh
4 Dundee
5 Swindon
6 Brighton
7 Bath
8 Swansea
9 Glasgow
10 Aberdeen

Source : Insurance company Endsleigh

The 10 Most Expensive Cities in the World

Yes, there are quite a few studies like these. This one is done by the Swiss banking giant UBS and compared the wages, cost of public services, travel and various other services and goods. Here's the list :

1. London - No surprise here. Time for me to move out of here
2. New York
3. Oslo
4. Tokyo
5. Zurich
6. Copenhagen
7. Geneva
8. Dublin
9. Chicago
10.Los Angeles

Quite surprised at the 2 Scandinavian cities up there.

20 Classics we all should have read

Source : UK Education Department

The 20 Classics we(everyone in Britain)should have read by now (preferably in school) :

In No Particular Order:

Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence
Jane Eyre - Charolotte Bronte
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
1984 - George Orwell
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

Havent they missed Lord of the Rings ???

The 10 films you(or your kids) should see by the age of 14

Chosen by the British Film Institute :

1. Spirited Away (2001) - Animated Japanese film about gods and sorcerers

2. The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Musical classic

3. Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959) - French 12-year-old turns into a hellraiser

4. The Night of the Hunter (1955) - Robert Mitchum as a serial killer in America's Deep South

5. Where is My Friend's House? (1987) - One of Iranian director Kiarostami's earlier works

6. Show Me Love (1998) - Coming-of-age tale of two Swedish girls

7. Toy Story (1995) - Buzz Lightyear and Woody brought to life by computer animation

8. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Steven Spielberg's sci-fi tearjerker

9. Bicycle Thieves (1948) - Italian film focusing on life after World War II

10. Kes (1969) - Gritty working class British drama

Havent seen even half of them, but where are childrens favourites like Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Finding Nemo ??

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Top 6 Countries Britons emigrate to

1. Australia
2. Spain
3. Canada
4. New Zealand
5. USA
6. France

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

The Top 10 Gay Albulms of All Time

Source: Attitude, a gay lifestyle magazine in UK

1. Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters (2004) (A bit weird name for a Band with 4 guys and a girl, but they must be doing something right to be Number 1)
2. Abba - Arrival (1976)
3. Morissey - Vauxhall and I (1994)
4. Kylie Minogue - Light Years (2000)
5. George Michael - Older (1996)
6. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome (1984)
7. Madonna - Erotica (1992)
8. Antony & The Johnsons - I am a bird now (2005)
9. Donna Summer - Bad Girls (1979)
10.David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World (1970)