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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.

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 <p> Didn&#8217;t notice anything odd? Take a look at the first 4 days of the month below (focus on the bold column.) </p> <table border="2" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="400"> <tr> <th colspan="13" align="center" bgcolor="#c0c0c0"> Daily Statistics for February 2008 </th> </tr> <tr> <th align="center" bgcolor="#c0c0c0"> Day </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#008040"> Hits </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#0080ff"> Files </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#00e0ff"> Pages </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#ffff00"> Visits </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#ff0000"> KBytes </th> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> 1 </td> <td align="right"> 12484 </td> <td align="right"> 11167 </td> <td align="right"> 3915 </td> <td align="right"> 1194 </td> <td align="right"> <b>100.954</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> 2 </td> <td align="right"> 14990 </td> <td align="right"> 13412 </td> <td align="right"> 5617 </td> <td align="right"> 1273 </td> <td align="right"> <b>136.491</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> 3 </td> <td align="right"> 41622 </td> <td align="right"> 37873 </td> <td align="right"> 7236 </td> <td align="right"> 2417 </td> <td align="right"> <b>1.288.875</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> 4 </td> <td align="right"> 62827 </td> <td align="right"> 58979 </td> <td align="right"> 7763 </td> <td align="right"> 3544 </td> <td align="right"> <b>2.242.575</b> </td> </tr> </table> <p> If you noticed, Yah, seriously, but if you didn&#8217;t: in two days I used as much bandwidth as the previous months.

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.

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 <p> Didn&#8217;t notice anything odd? Take a look at the first 4 days of the month below (focus on the bold column.) </p> <table border="2" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="400"> <tr> <th colspan="13" align="center" bgcolor="#c0c0c0"> Daily Statistics for February 2008 </th> </tr> <tr> <th align="center" bgcolor="#c0c0c0"> Day </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#008040"> Hits </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#0080ff"> Files </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#00e0ff"> Pages </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#ffff00"> Visits </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#ff0000"> KBytes </th> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> 1 </td> <td align="right"> 12484 </td> <td align="right"> 11167 </td> <td align="right"> 3915 </td> <td align="right"> 1194 </td> <td align="right"> <b>100.954</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> 2 </td> <td align="right"> 14990 </td> <td align="right"> 13412 </td> <td align="right"> 5617 </td> <td align="right"> 1273 </td> <td align="right"> <b>136.491</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> 3 </td> <td align="right"> 41622 </td> <td align="right"> 37873 </td> <td align="right"> 7236 </td> <td align="right"> 2417 </td> <td align="right"> <b>1.288.875</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> 4 </td> <td align="right"> 62827 </td> <td align="right"> 58979 </td> <td align="right"> 7763 </td> <td align="right"> 3544 </td> <td align="right"> <b>2.242.575</b> </td> </tr> </table> <p> If you noticed, Yah, seriously, but if you didn&#8217;t: in two days I used as much bandwidth as the previous months.