Myths about the developing world.

Hans Rosling gave a very educational TED talk that uses UN statistics about world health, money and birth rates to destroy the myths about the so-called third world. In the first few minutes, he demonstrates that the developing world has more of the traits that one assigns to the “western” world than previously believed. He then continues to attack other myths through the use of statistics, humor and some really neat graphs.

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Oh, as an Aside: Blink, Blink…”Whoops” (From the 5th of February)

Take a look at the following stats and let me know if you see anything odd.

Summary by Month
Month Monthly Totals
KBytes Visits Pages Files Hits
Feb 2008 3769739 8427 24576 121569 132159
Jan 2008 3634098 36357 131454 429936 478043

Didn’t notice anything odd? Take a look at the first 4 days of the month below (focus on the bold column.)

Daily Statistics for February 2008
Day Hits Files Pages Visits KBytes
1 12484 11167 3915 1194 100.954
2 14990 13412 5617 1273 136.491
3 41622 37873 7236 2417 1.288.875
4 62827 58979 7763 3544 2.242.575

If you noticed, Yah, seriously, but if you didn’t: in two days I used as much bandwidth as the previous months. It turns out that on the SoBe Lizard post I added 5 PNG screenshots to the post.

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