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A New Map of the Internet
An anonymous reader writes "The Chris Harrison project has created a series of maps that show the geographical structure and distribution of the Internet. At the site you can view a global, geo-spatial map of the global internet. The visualizations were put together using data from the Dimes project. One visualization shows the density of Internet connections worldwide while the other displays how international cities are connected. Detailed Maps of Europe and North America are included as well. It's amazing how skewed the distribution is — beyond Australia, New Zealand, and parts of South-East Asia, the southern hemisphere has only a peppering of connectivity."
So the parts of the world that are developed and wealthy have a larger internet presence than the third world countries? I am shocked, shocked I say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGfNSA3QmWg&NR=1
http://xkcd.com/store/
RE: Map of Tubes
Hello, Ted Stevens here.
I find this map of tubes very intriguing. As you may know, I have been a proponent of protecting the Internet's tubes from clogging up. I think this new geo-spatial map will show how the tubes are distributed. It shows that I was right all along! The Internet is like a truck! You can't just throw stuff on it or it slows it down. As a matter of fact, my secretary is sending an Internet right now and NO CARRIER
Very Truly Yours,
Ted Stevens
U.S. Senator
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Write in the man! George W. Bush in 2008.
The Chris Harrison project will prove to be no match for.... The Alan Parsons Project.
http://xkcd.com/195/
http://xkcd.com/256/
Let's see, it's a new way to map the network, a new map ... I've got it! We'll call it "NMAP"!
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
http://xkcd.com/256/ =p
http://kered.org
okay.. so ya take a right at ol' Goog's,
then, veer left and avoid goats.ex,
take a pitt stop at fark.com - but don't chat with the locals unless ya' wanna get made fun of,
drive straight past slashdot, it's just a tourist trap
take a right at myspace.com.. and be sure to leave them alone. they don't tolerate much
and there ya are.. PORN!
--- We need more Ron Paul!
Already he needs to remove his own burning ruin of a server from the list.
Still #1 -- Lonely Gay Geek
nooo! South America is sinking!
*glug glug glug...*
being vague is almost as cool as doing that other thing...
Well, most of the southern hemisphere is water and although there are penguins in Antarctica they are not really all that into this internet thing...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Every road leads to porn...
Well somebody is getting it right... I am living in a shitty little village in Denmark and and the "Meet interesting girls in..." adverts from Adult Friend Finder have zeroed in. A year ago they gave towns 60 km away from here, now they are always within 10 km.
10 ?"Hello World" life was simple then
That's the great firewall of China. It's like a filter, in the tubes.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I hate to tell you this, but there are these huge stretches of land in the US called the "fly-over" states..perhaps you've heard of them. I doubt they will be ever saturated with anything, much less IPv6 networks. Maybe cows, I dunno. Whenever you get the impulse to imagine a technologically saturated western world where everything is so advanced that it doesn't matter to look anymore, always remember
IDAHO: FAMOUS POTATOES!
For further info:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=idaho_blows
How can one forget Duke Nukem Forever?
As any paranoid US nationalist knows, nearly the entire Canadian population is massed on the US/Canada border, in preparation for an invasion. They've turned off all the lights in the rest of the country to protect it from retaliatory air raids.
http://alternatives.rzero.com/