Penny wise, pound foolish

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After hearing ad nauseum during the Olympics that Michael Phelps' LZR swimsuit was "worth its weight in gold," the aptly named blog Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories decided to find out empirically if that was literally true. (God bless the Internet.) Turns out: not quite. As you can see from their chart above—and there are many, many more charts here—the swimmer's Speedo is actually worth its weight in marijuana or industrial diamonds. Not quite gold, but then again, Mr. Phelps already has plenty of that.

[via Dealbreaker]

PAUL L. UNDERWOOD
Photo: evilmadscientist.com
11:31 AM, August 28, 2008

Tags: Business, Media, Raw Data



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