It's an indication to scroll to the right that masquerades as link to see more, then leaves you annoyed that it didn't work if you're actually foolish enough to try and click on a link to see more wee little people icons.
Very cool. It would be nice if the colours varied slightly so you had some reference point when scrolling. At the moment I scroll down and the page looks static.
>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.
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.
A lot of racial slurs are based on a caricature of people's skin colors. Selecting a color that has historically had that problem and then intentionally assigning it to the target of those caricatures seems, if not malicious, at least completely oblivious.
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://humbit.com/humbit.php
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.
Would be cool if new people kept popping on top at the average rate people are born. also a good opportunity to stop such cruel segregation practices, and just mix up the folks at the rate they are born. The new generations should know no race.
With addition of birth rate and death rate, the site may become a simulation application. Maybe also adding a text field to input those rate to check if we are increasing or decreasing.
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.
7 billion people in cramped boxes, some of them with limbs amputated and some of them with body parts in their box, with no ventilation, waste disposal or food supply. Sounds like a great xkcd what-if. That reminds me that you can fit 7 billion people on Rhode Island, but the geopolitical effects of that would be less than beneficial.
I 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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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 142 ms ] threadHuge! The exact size depends on the screen resolution on your PC, but the page is almost 1 mile (1.6 Km) high and 800 feet (250 m) wide."
Wow - pretty crazy.
That would be cool.
(Just like: Name | DOB | Place of birth | Place of residence)
>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.
At least some of the folks who claim to speak for Africa say "black" represents the people.
And although the colors may suggest otherwise, the 5 continents division is not based on race but rather on location.
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
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.
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
If you want to count them one by one at 1 per sec, you'll need ~220 years.
Edit: I just noted that it was already mentioned in the counting all of us section...