reminds me of http://www.theonemillioneuromap.com ... in a way.
7 billion people on 1 page
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#32Soooo...... am I the only one who noticed Africa was annotated with a black coloured human, and Asia with a yellow one.
Explained in the FAQ: http://www.7billionworld.com/faq.php
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#33Reminds me of a (dumb) idea I had for a social networking site that was inspired by the million dollar homepage: show 1 million user accounts on one page, no scrolling. Every user can choose the color of their pixel. With zooming in or multiple pages, that could be extended to everyone, but I thought a million people would be pretty cool. Isn't quite as cool with the few dozen people that showed up though. http://hum…
I was playing around with Humbit and actually it is pretty cool =). But it is not that useful and gets boring after a few minutes. You could make it more dynamic or something to make users want to use it more.
That ship left a long time ago, but thanks!
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#34Some people might find blue europeans, red americans and green australians racist.
Hehe. You are right. Those are actually the official olympic colors of the continents, se they will get away with it.
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#35I didn't scroll down far enough to "see everyone", but according to the legend, there are no people in Antarctica. Since it's neutral territory, I guess those people are naturally residents of one of the other continents, but it still seems sad in some way.
EDIT: I guess I would have also split north and south America into two continents ... sorry I didn't notice before!
EDIT2: I should also note that one of the goals on my bucket list was to travel to all 7 continents. I've found out that getting to Antarctica is hard without specific skills (and in some cases, specific employers ... who knew there were polar service companies: http://rpsc.raytheon.com/). I guess my best bet is to become wealthy enough to fund an expedition of my own ... but then I'd have a hard time justifying the cost.
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#36Soooo...... am I the only one who noticed Africa was annotated with a black coloured human, and Asia with a yellow one.
Explained in the FAQ: http://www.7billionworld.com/faq.php
They seem to be confused. From wikipedia:
>As can be read in the Olympic Charter, the Olympic symbol represents the union of the five regions of the world and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games. However, no continent is represented by any specific ring. Prior to 1951, the official handbook stated that each colour corresponded to a particular continent: blue for Europe, yellow for Asia, black for Africa, green for Australia and Oceania and red for America (North and South considered as a single continent); this was removed because there was no evidence that Coubertin had intended it (the quote above was probably an afterthought).
If you stop to think about it for a moment, if that were the case, it would make the olympic logo seem quite racist.
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#37Soooo...... am I the only one who noticed Africa was annotated with a black coloured human, and Asia with a yellow one.
Is there a particular color Africans or Asians prefer to associate themselves with moreso than the colors chosen there? Just curious. I don't see how associating a certain continent with a certain color would be racist.
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#38This page makes my vertical scrollbar disappear when I go beyond ~70% of the page downwards. Chrome 24 on Windows 7, pretty common setup I'd say.
Me too, time for a chrome bug report.
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#39Just wondered how the population stats are measured? I.E. How do we actually know that there is this amount of people in the world?
Asia 4,221,013,428 Africa 1,056,035,237 Americas 947,209,798 Europe 738,356,924 Oceania 37,384,613
World 7,000,000,000
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