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Re: 7 billion people on 1 page

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Post by sbjustin »

jere wrote: post #17

Reminds 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…

Neat idea. My only issue is I have a hard time between a 'user' and dust on my screen. lol

Re: 7 billion people on 1 page

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Post by Retric »

Kequc wrote: post #43
seivan wrote: post #15

Soooo...... am I the only one who noticed Africa was annotated with a black coloured human, and Asia with a yellow one.

This seems a liiiiiiitle bit overly sensitive to me.

I don't know all those green people in Oceania might get together with the blue people and err nm.

Re: 7 billion people on 1 page

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Post by trhtrsh »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #37
seivan wrote: post #15

Soooo...... 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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-African_colours

At least some of the folks who claim to speak for Africa say "black" represents the people.

Re: 7 billion people on 1 page

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Post by dlhavema »

savrajsingh wrote: post #27

Everyone could fit in a cube 1.1 miles on a side. Let's say each person gets a 72 inch tall, 30 inch wide, 20 inch deep box. That's about 28 cubic feet per person. If you stacked all 7B of these next to each other in a cube, you'd have a cube with a side of just 1.1 miles. http://instacalc.com/11188

the "what-if XKCD" related to something like this actually happening is kind of amusing: http://what-if.xkcd.com/8/

Re: 7 billion people on 1 page

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Post by jere »

sbjustin wrote: post #61
jere wrote: post #17

Reminds 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…

Neat idea. My only issue is I have a hard time between a 'user' and dust on my screen. lol

Yea, no kidding. It helps if you wipe off your screen, make sure the brightness is up, dim the lights, pour yourself a glass of wine, etc.

Re: 7 billion people on 1 page

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Post by nbashaw »

It's interesting how they did it. I was assuming some javascript trick but it's really quite simple and elegant:

    #as1 {
      background-image: url('seven_asia.gif');
      height: 2110500px;
      width: 640000px;
    }

Re: 7 billion people on 1 page

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Post by robmclarty »

gavinh wrote: post #66

Who thought it was a good idea to color-code Asians with yellow?

ikr... and Africans are obviously colour-coded as black. They might as well have coloured Europeans in white (but I guess that wouldn't show up well on the already white background). I think there's a little bit of ethnicity generalization going on here which isn't really appropriate.
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