Douwe Osinga's Blog: January 2004

Thursday, January 29, 2004

The Next President

Just a quick project in the list of mapping: the next president let's you guess who will win which state in the next presidential elect...

Monday, January 26, 2004

Bizarro Google

In the Seinfeld episode ‘ Bizarror Jerry’ , the crew meets a group of people exactly the opposite of Jerry , Elaine , Kramer and George...

Saturday, January 24, 2004

Most Visited Countries

I agregated the results of visited countries into a map. The more a country is chosen in this little tool, the redder it shows up. Fun.

Wednesday, January 21, 2004

New Project: Mapped Web

Last weekend a good friend, Ernst Wit , came over from Italy where he currently lives. Saturday night, a couple of good belgian beers , what...

Visited Countries Explosion

Last week I thought it might be an excellent idea to make the visited countries project viral. If you enter your countries, you'll get a...

Sunday, January 18, 2004

Men and Women

I didn’t pay attention and got into one of those discussions about men are good at and women are good at. Now, I’m all for equal rights,...

Thursday, January 15, 2004

Voting is irrational

One of the last taboos in our society must be democracy. Not that democracy works. You can say that democracy doesn’t work. That is doesnâ...

Tuesday, January 13, 2004

More on LandGeist

A week ago , I wrote about Landgeist . Landgeist projects for specified keywords the correlation between the country name and the keyword o...

Wednesday, January 7, 2004

A Pyramid game with Google footing the Bill

Google AdSense has been a way for many bloggers to finance their hosting costs. At world 66 it is actually one of our major income streams ...

Monday, January 5, 2004

Land Geist

A new year, a new project. Google has its Zeitgeist , I just launched my Landgeist . Landgeist takes a word and sees how often it appears to...

Friday, January 2, 2004

More's Utopia and Moore's Stupid White Men

Thomas More's Utopia is an old book - it's from 1517 - with a lot of modern sounding idea's. Often it reminds me of that other l...