If Rock and Roll Were a Subway

The lines would look like this:
www.flickr.com/photos/smoy/4413987999/sizes/o/in/pool-16135094@N00/

You will likely get a better image at the original site.

How Do You Know

When there is an Olympic Hockey Match in Canada? 

Simple: track water usage.



The green line is the day before.  The blue line is the day of the Hockey Gold Medal game.  The timing is exquisite.

The Fifteen People Who Run America

OK.  They don't. 

Of the interlocking boards of directors of Fortune 500 corporations, these fifteen people hold more active seats than anyone else - five apiece - but they hardly hold the majority of all board seats!  Still, we might call them the "most connected" board members.  If you want to start a rumor in the halls of Corporate America, whisper it to one of these folks.  You likely never heard of any of them:

• Linda G. Alvarado Alvarado Construction, Inc.
• Ursula O. Fairbairn American Express EVP
• Rozanne L. Ridgway Asst. Secy. of State for Europe, 1985-89
• Jackie M. Ward CEO of Computer Generation, 1968-2000
• J. Steven Whisler CEO of Phelps Dodge, 2000-07
• Peter C. Browning CEO of Sonoco Products, 1998-2000
• Charles R. Lee CEO of Verizon, 2000-02
• Ann N. Reese CFO of ITT, 1995-98
• Robert L. Ryan CFO of Medtronic, 1993-2005
• John K. Wulff CFO of Union Carbide, 1996-2001
• William H. Gray Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979-91
• Shirley A. Jackson NRC Chairman, 1995-99
• John C. Pope President and COO of United Airlines, 1992-94
• Leonard S. Coleman, Jr. President of MLB National League, 1994-99
• Karen Hastie Williams Retired Partner, Crowell & Moring

Of the fifteen:
5 are black (33%)
5 are Democrats (33%), 3 are Republicans (20%), and the rest don't say. 
7 are female; 8 are male, as close to 50/50 as you can get with 15 people. 

For more fun with America's corporate elite, go here:
Corporate Power Nexus