Gay or Not, "Best Places to Work for GLBT Equality" is a Must See

The “Best Places to Work for GLBT Equality” is a list everyone should consult when looking for employment. If a company is chosen by The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nation’s largest GLBT civil rights organization, it almost guarantees the company is an all around fair employer. In order to be chosen, 195 companies must score a perfect 100% on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index which measures policies and practices implemented to promote fairness and equality in the workplace for GLBT employees.

Advertising

Star Company MediaVest Group (SMG) - Chicago, IL


Aerospace and Defense:

Boeing Co. - Chicago, IL

Honeywell International, Inc. - Morristown, NJ

Northrop Grumman Corp. - Los Angeles, CA

Raytheon Co. - Waltham, MA


Airlines

AMR Corp (American Airlines) - Fort Worth, TX

US Airways Group - Tempee AZ


Apparel, Fashion, Textiles, Dept. Stores

Abercrombie and Fitch - New Albany, OH

Gap, Inc. - San Francisco, CA

J.C. Penney Co. - Plano, TX

Levi Strauss & Co. - San Francisco, CA


Automotive:

Chrysler LLC Auburn Hills, MI

Ford Motor, Inc. - Dearborn, MI

General Motors, - Detroit, MI

Subaru of America - Cherry Hill, NJ


Banking & Financial Services:

American Express, Co. - New York

Ameriprise Financial, Inc. - Minneapolis, MN

Bank of America Corp - Charlotte, NC

Deutsche Bank - New York, NY

Wachovia Corp - Charlotte, NC

Wells Fargo - San Francisco, CA


Chemicals & Biotechnology

Choicepoint - Alpharetta, GA

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) - Armonk, NY


Computer Hardware & Office Equipment

Apple - Cupertino, CA

Dell, Inc. - Round Rock, TX

Lexmark International Inc. - Lexington, KY

NCR Corp. - Dayton, OH


Computer Software

Adobe Systems - San Jose, CA

Intuit, Inc. - Mountain View, CA

Microsoft Corp. - Redmond WA

Oracle Corp. - Redwood City, CA


Consulting, Business Services

Accenture Ltd. - New York, NY

Bain & Co. Inc. - Boston, MA

Boston Consulting Group - Boston, MA

Deloitte & Touche USA LLP - New York, NY

Ernst & Young LLP - New York, NY


Education, Childcare

Bright Horizons Family Solutions - Watertown, MA


Hotels, Resorts, & Casinos

Carlson Companies - Minnetonka, MN

Global Hyatt - Chicago, IL

Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. - Las Vegas, NV

Marriot International Inc. - Washington DC

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide - White Plains, NY

Wyndham Worldwide - Parsippany, NJ


Internet

Google, Inc.


Law Firms

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP - Washington DC

Alston & Bird LLP - Atlanta, GA

Arnold & Porter LLP - Washington DC

Bingham McCutchen Boston, MA

Bryan Cave LLP - St. Louis, MO

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP - New York, NY

Crowell & Moring LLP - Washington DC

Dewey Ballantine - New York, NY

Dickstein Shapiro LLP - Washington, DC

Dorsey & Whitney LLP - Minneapolis, MN

Faegre & Benson - Minneapolis, MN

Foley & Lardner LLP - Milwaukee, WI

Heller Ehrman LLP - San Francisco, CA

Holland & Knight LLP - New York, NY

Jenner & Block - Chicago, IL

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP - New York, NY

Latham & Watkins LLP - New York, NY

McDermott Will & Emery LLP - Chicago, IL

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo - Boston, MA

Nixon Peabody LLP - Rochester, NY

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP - Los Angeles, CA

O'Melveny & Myers - Los Angeles, CA


Mail & Freight Delivery

United Parcel Post, Inc (UPS) - Atlanta, GA


Oil and Gas

BP Oil - Warrenville, IL

Chevron - San Ramon, CA


Pharmaceuticals

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. - Ridgefield, CT

Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co - New York, NY

Eli Lilly & Co - Indianapolis, IN

GlaxoSmithKline plc - Philadelphia, PA

Hospira Inc. - Lake Forest, IL

Johnson & Johnson - New Brunswick, NJ

Merck & Co. Inc. - Whitehouse Station, NJ

Pfizer - New York, NY

Schering-Plough Corp. - Kenilworth, NJ


Publishing & Printing

New York Times Co. - New York, NY


Retail & Consumer Products

Best Buy - Richfield, MN

Borders Group, Inc - Ann Arbor, MI

Clorox Co - Oakland, CA

Estee Lauder Companies - New York, NY

Gamestop Corp. - Grapevine, TX

Mitchell Gold & Bob Williams - Taylorsville, NC

Newell Rubbermaid, Inc. - Atlanta, GA

Recreational Equipment, Inc. - Kent, WA

S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. - Racine, WI

Sears Holding Co. - Hoffman Estates, IL

Starbucks, Inc. - Seattle, WA

Walgreens - Deerfield, IL


Telecommunications

Alcatel-Lucent - Murray Hill, NJ

At&T - San Antonio, TX

Cisco Systems, Inc. - San Jose, CA

Motorola Corp. - Schaumburg, IL

Sprint Nextel - Reston, VA


Transportation, Travel

Travelport, Inc. - Parsippany, NJ


Waste Management

Waste Management - Houston, TX

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Toy Converts to GHB, Naked Suday, Censoring Cock and other Dumb Moments in Business World 2007

1. China - "Mattel is forced to recall almost 20 million items made in China because of lead paint on toy cars and tiny magnets that could be deadly if swallowed. Lead paint problems are also found in 844,000 Chinese-made Barbie accessories and toys with the Sesame Street brand.

Pet food makers recall more than 60 million cans of food laced with tainted melamine in wheat gluten from China. A huge underground distribution network for steroids, human growth hormones, and other bodybuilding drugs is traced to 37 companies in China. Chinese-made lunch boxes, given away by the California Department of Public Health to promote healthy eating habits among children, are found to contain lead.

Nike recalls 235,000 football helmets because the Chinese-made chin cup has a defective strap and has caused at least two concussions and a broken nose. Ethylene glycol is found in Chinese-made toothpaste. The government of China executes the former head of its State Food and Drug Administration."

2. Eli Lilly -- Prozac for Dogs

Eli Lilly wins FDA approval to put Prozac into chewable, beef-flavored pills to treat separation anxiety in dogs.

3. Leona Helmsley leaves $12 million to her white Maltese, Trouble.

4. Merrill Lynch -

In the first quarter of 2007, thanks to its $1.3 billion purchase of First Franklin Financial, Merrill Lynch becomes the world's top underwriter of subprime-mortgage-backed securities. Nonetheless, with the market in meltdown just a few months later, Merrill CFO Jeffrey Edwards (pictured) tells analysts that the firm's subprime exposure is "limited, contained, and appropriately marked." In October, Merrill announces a quarterly loss of $2.24 billion after $7.9 billion in subprime-related write-downs.

5. Stanley O'Neil -

In August and September, as his company is racking up the largest quarterly loss in its 93-year history, Merrill Lynch CEO Stanley O'Neal squeezes in 20 rounds of golf, including three rounds on three different courses in a single day. In October, O'Neal announces his "retirement," walking away with a compensation package valued at $161.5 million.

6. Citigroup CEO Resigns - after the company takes an $11 billion write-down.



7. Hi-Tech Toilets - "The fire would have been just under your buttocks." Japanese manufacturer Toto apologizes to customers and offers free repairs for 180,000 high-tech toilets - thrones that feature heated seats, air purifiers, blow dryers, and water sprayers - after at least three catch fire. "Fortunately nobody was using the toilets when the fire broke out," says a company spokesman. "The fire would have been just under your buttocks."


8. Hordes of Rats in KFC/Taco Bell A video clip showing hordes of rats in a closed-for-the-night KFC/Taco Bell outlet in New York City gets nearly a million hits on YouTube.
9. Ratatoullie --

The French daily Le Monde calls Ratatouille, Pixar's movie about a rat in a kitchen, "one of the greatest gastronomic films in the history of cinema."

10. Electronic Voting Machines --

Diebold tightens security after it is revealed that a simple virus can hack its electronic voting machines. Months later a hacker uses a picture of a key from the company website to make a real key that can open the company's machines.

11. Oil Spills - "I touched the delta tower." -- Captain John J. Cota,

The pilot of the container ship Cosco Busan, after the vessel strikes the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and spills 58,000 gallons of diesel fuel from a 160-foot gash in its hull.

12. Procter & Gamble

The parents of two Florida toddlers sue Procter & Gamble after they are surprised to find images of their children on packages of Luvs diapers. The parents say they were paid a "nominal fee" at a casting call but were promised an additional payment if the photos were selected.

13. Disneyland -- Gives free food coupons to fat customers for not sinking their small world. Disneyland announces plans to close the "It's a Small World" attraction to deepen its water channel after the ride's boats start getting stuck under loads of heavy passengers. Employees ask larger passengers to disembark - and compensate them with coupons for free food.
14. Naked Sunday --The Fitworld gym in Heteren, the Netherlands, introduces Naked Sunday.

15. Toy Converts Into Date Rape Drug --

Australia's Toy of the Year, a bead toy called Bindeez made by Moose Enterprise, is pulled from stores after scientists discover that the beads contain a chemical that converts into the date-rape drug GHB when ingested.

16. Microsoft Pretexting Award -- While working on an article about Microsoft, Wired contributing editor (and former Fortune writer) Fred Vogelstein receives a 13-page dossier about himself, describing him as "tricky" and his stories as "sensational." The document, prepared by the company's public relations firm, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, as background for Microsoft executives, was sent inadvertently to the writer.


17. Cocaine Energy Drink --

After receiving a warning from the FDA, Redux Beverages agrees to stop calling its energy drink Cocaine. It changes the name first to Censored, then to NoName.

18. Censoring the Word "Cock" --

A contributor to the website of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds complains that he is being censored when a filter in the site's Microsoft software automatically replaces the word "cock" - the common designation for a male bird - with asterisks. "As bird lovers will know," he writes, "a Parus major is a great tit, and while a **** doesn't get past the forum censors, tits do not cause offense."

19. Judge Rules OK to Drive Zambonis Drunk --

New Jersey Superior Court Judge Joseph Falcone dismisses drunk-driving charges against a Zamboni operator even though he tests positive for alcohol. The judge rules that the ice-grooming machines aren't motor vehicles because they are not street legal.

20. OJ Simpson's Troubles Have Not Worked Out for Him --

"The police, since my trouble, have not worked out for me." -- O.J. Simpson, on why he took matters into his own hands to reclaim memorabilia he says were pilfered. He is charged with kidnapping and armed robbery.

21. Cartoon Network's "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" Salutes -- To build buzz for its animated show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force," Turner Broadcasting's Cartoon Network places electronic lightboards throughout Boston, triggering a bomb scare that shuts down two bridges, an expressway, a subway station, and a stretch of the Charles River. The devices depict a character from the show saluting passersby with an upraised middle finger.

22. Don Imus' "Nappy-headed hos" remark

23. HBO President Punches and Chokes Girlfriend --

HBO President Chris Albrecht allegedly punches and chokes his girlfriend while drunk at 3 A.M. in a Las Vegas parking lot

24. Raining Dollar Bills on Las Vegas Dancers --

Tennessee Titans Cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones rains dollar bills down on dancers at a Las Vegas strip club, setting off a melee in which three people are shot.

25. Isiah Thomas -- Sexual harassment lawsuit

The Rest of the Dumb Moments List...

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The IP Rich List

Under IPv4 there are 4,294,967,296 possible IP addresses - each of which may be assigned to a device or computer on the internet. Four billion addresses equates to slightly less that two thirds of an IP address per person on the planet. As you may imagine, the IP addresses are not distributed evenly around the world - they are assigned to individual countries by Regional Internet Registries such as ARIN and RIPE. We take a look at how that information breaks down per person in each country.

First of all, I obtained an IP address to country lookup list, which revealed the blocks assigned to each country - from this I was able to calculate the total number of IP addresses allocated to each country. I then divided that total figure by the country's population, giving an indication of the number of IPs available to that country per capita (person).

Top 10 Countries

		Country	Population	No. of IPs	IPs/capita
1.		Vatican City	783	8,191	10.5 IPs per person
2.		United States	299,161,390	1,352,246,048	4.5 IPs per person
3.		Canada	32,547,200	70,313,601	2.2 IPs per person
4.		Iceland	297,139	589,790	2.0 IPs per person
5.		Monaco	35,656	63,480	1.8 IPs per person
6.		Gibraltar	27,921	47,097	1.7 IPs per person
7.		Liechtenstein	33,987	51,217	1.51 IPs per person
8.		Sweden	9,072,269	13,573,300	1.501 IPs per person
9.		Finland	5,255,580	7,705,691	1.496 IPs per person
10.		Australia	20,555,300	29,998,170	1.459 IPs per person

And so, onto the bottom 10 countries. Note that these are expressed in a slightly different way - rather that IPs per person, these are expressed by people per IP - the reciprocal.

Bottom 10 Countries

		Country	Population	No. of IPs	IPs/capita
195.		Afghanistan	29,863,000	20,476	1,458 people per IP
196.		Madagascar	18,606,000	12,286	1,514 people per IP
197.		Guinea-Bissau	1,586,000	1,203	1,550 people per IP
198.		Central African Republic	4,038,000	2,047	1,972 people per IP
199.		Burundi	7,548,000	2,302	3,278 people per IP
200.		Myanmar	50,519,000	12,286	4,112 people per IP
201.		Malawi	12,884,000	3,070	4,197 people per IP
202.		Ethiopia	75,067,000	16,383	4,582 people per IP
203.		Niger	13,957,000	255	58,139 people per IP
204.		Democratic Republic of Congo	59,319,660	1023	58,140 people per IP

As seen in the shaded map above, it's the African countries and disputed territories that have the highest ration of people to assigned IPs. The least IP-dense country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been stricken by war during the main period of growth of the internet, and has likely suffered. There is a clear reflection of GNP in these figures too - those countries with lower GDPs have similarly lower concentrations of IPs.

This IP shortage is the reason why the move to IPv6 is underway, which supports a markedly superior 3.4x10³⁸ possible addresses - more than enough for everyone on the planet, and no doubt we'll need the extra address space with the lesser economically developed countries catching up in terms of internet usage.

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