10^6 Giraffes

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Post by ChrisRicca » Thu, May 06, 2010, 4:53 AM UTC

10^6 Giraffes
onemilliongiraffes.com

Re: 10^6 Giraffes

#2

Post by JacobAldridge » Thu, May 06, 2010, 5:14 AM UTC

I can't wait for RiderOfGiraffes to get wind of this project ... http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RiderOfGiraffes

Re: 10^6 Giraffes

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Post by JeanPierre » Thu, May 06, 2010, 6:31 AM UTC

http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/stats

I was somewhat amazed by those stats: I thought Americans would have contributed the most. Is there something I should know about Germans and Giraffes that I do not know?

Re: 10^6 Giraffes

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Post by rudyfink » Thu, May 06, 2010, 6:33 AM UTC

There are times when I realize what all of humanity has been building towards.

Having built machines that could compute billions of cycles per second and then having connected them with networks signaling each other across the planet at fearsome rates, I have wondered what the next step for our people would be.

Now I know. Now we might all gaze upon representations of giraffes and if we are worthy, we might contribute our own representation in a symbolic joining with the whole of the great human project.

Re: 10^6 Giraffes

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Post by kwamenum86 » Thu, May 06, 2010, 6:56 AM UTC

JeanPierre wrote: post #3

http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/stats I was somewhat amazed by those stats: I thought Americans would have contributed the most. Is there something I should know about Germans and Giraffes that I do not know?

It looks like this started in Europe. A mainstream American website usually sees a 1:2 domestic to international ratio while a niche/startup website usually starts out with the opposite (actually more like 10:1 I would guess.) This follows that pattern except the U.S. is part of the international piece of the pie.

Re: 10^6 Giraffes

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Post by philk » Thu, May 06, 2010, 7:00 AM UTC

...and I discover this just as I was about to launch my new startup: fivehundredthousandgiraffes.com

Oh well, back to the drawing board.

Re: 10^6 Giraffes

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Post by ugh » Thu, May 06, 2010, 7:08 AM UTC

JeanPierre wrote: post #3

http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/stats I was somewhat amazed by those stats: I thought Americans would have contributed the most. Is there something I should know about Germans and Giraffes that I do not know?

There is this one submitter of Giraffes[1], responsible for two percent of all German giraffes, or this one[2], responsible for nearly five percent. I didn’t even have to look all that hard to find them.

[1] http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/search?name=Sanne

[2] http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/search?name=Ediktonia

Re: 10^6 Giraffes

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Post by pavlov » Thu, May 06, 2010, 7:09 AM UTC

I'm reminded of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army

"My friend, Zhang, doesn't believe I can collect one million soldiers by 209 BC. I'm gonna prove him wrong, but I need your help. (Or you'll be beheaded.) Thanks, Qin."

Our time is gentler -- the Age of the Giraffes.

Re: 10^6 Giraffes

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Post by wazoox » Thu, May 06, 2010, 7:15 AM UTC

I remember sending a giraffe a long time ago, I had forgotten about it :)

Re: 10^6 Giraffes

#10

Post by WarDekar » Thu, May 06, 2010, 7:21 AM UTC

I love it!

And I love the guessing game with the age of the submitter, I only wish the server wasn't getting slammed 'cause it takes too long to get the response.

So far I'm 6 votes in with 3.7 years avg difference so far, it's a pretty great idea, though I wonder if it selects based on users so you don't get shown consecutive (or even in the vicinity in the case of the mass posters another comment mentioned) giraffes from the same artist.