Doesn't work for me in Firefox. If web developers aren't going to bother with cross-browser compatibility it'd be nice if they at least went back to telling visitors which browsers they do support.
Works for me with FF 68 on Mac
A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
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#202aah I always knew Sarah Palin was famous for something...didn't know until now she is from Alaska.
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#203Interesting, it should be fun to extend this to the rest of the world
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#204Louisville, KY: Tom Cruise (born in Syracuse, NY, but parents born there) replaces Muhammed Ali (by far most famous native).
Seems a bit unfair.
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
She's a B-list movie star who does some indie stuff. * She was in two of the Twilight films. * Pitch Perfect (trilogy). * Mr. Right. The Accountant. (hitmen with a heart of gold movies). * A Simple Favor. (stepford wife mystery). * Drinking Buddies (a brewery drama, it's great) * Scott Pilgrim vs The World
B-list is pretty harsh. She has an Oscar nomination (albeit 10 years ago), and the Pitch Perfect movies made $$$.
That list of accolades makes me think B-list is generous... even if I do have a crush on her.
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
OP here. This idea was from looking at this map. https://www.wearedorothy.com/collections/music/products/u-s-...
Huh, it looks like the author of that older map might not have realized that "Pennsylvania 6-5000" is about the telephone number of a hotel in New York City (whose telephone exchange was named after Pennsylvania Station, which was named after the Pennsylvania Railroad, which was named after the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_6-5000_(song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEnnsy…
And Wyoming, the state, is named for Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania.
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#207Re: A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
#208The controls are terrible. I can't figure out how to zoom, and if I right click I get into some sort of "tilt" mode that can't be escaped from without reloading the page.
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't cherry pick Larry Nassar to make MSU look bad, it was just the first news story from Google when I googled Michigan State University. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/05/29/fears-about-a...
It wouldn't take too many more revelations for deviant sexual exploitation to be the first thing non-sports people think of when they hear the phrase "Big 10". Penn State, Michigan State, Ohio State...
Ok but Larry Page has been ignoring East Lansing since well before the Larry Nassar shit came to light so this is not relevant to the discussion. Tarring an entire city because of a few assholes also doesn’t seem very sporting.
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#210It's too bad there are so many duplicates. I think it would be more interesting if it was based on birthplace, since big cities that attract lots of businesspeople/celebrities just get tagged with someone really famous who doesn't have any particular connection with the city (e.g. Elon Musk on Los Angeles, Steve Jobs on basically everywhere in the Bay Area). The Wikidata "place of birth" field would probably be a rea…
I think there's also a lot of missing entries because the person's page and/or the town's page doesn't directly link to that person.
I figured the one lone dot in northern Idaho would be Randy Weaver. Nope. Upon checking it turns out there's no direct link between Randy Weaver and Naples, Idaho. The path goes through the Ruby Ridge page.