Go Figure

84 – Countries in which e-mail-filtering firm MessageLabs has intercepted the Fizzer worm, a computer virus whose subject lines include the relatively benign-sounding, “Watchin’ the game, havin’ a Bud.”

1,200 – Miles between J. Walter Thompson New York and J. Walter Thompson Minneapolis. Yet they share a problem: absent-minded toilet flushers. From this sprang the poster shown here, which hangs above toilets in both offices. “The world is pretty messed up these days. The least we can do is flush,” says Young Seo, the New York art director who created the poster.

$75,000