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I use the DVORAK keyboard to type, and this is one of the reasons why. I kept waiting for him to mention it. I've often found myself saying almost the exact same words that goat is saying, to explain why I don't use QWERTY.

Gapminder World 2006

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Check out this way cool data visualization tool, created by Hans Rosling. It allows the user to compare population size, income per capita, and life expectancy, for just about any country in the world, with data since 1975. It was created to help make large mountains of data useable and more easily understandable. Try it out. You can compare countries to each other or continents to continents.

Hear Hans Rosling speak about it first hand, at TEDTalks.

[added 19Feb07, 12:56a] Wow! I just realized that there's tons more data available to play wit if you click on the colour tab. Things like telephones per capita, military budget, percentage of women in the workforce, carbon emissions and a bunch more. Crazy!

The Face of Tomorrow

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Fascinating and really cool--composite images of people from cities around the world.

The Face of Tomorrow

Found this on theta.ca

7 Things God Doesn't Know

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So in some of my spare time (of which I have rather more than I want at this point in time), I've been doing a little freelance graphic design work. Here's the cover of a book that I designed. And here's the site where you can order it--FaithWalk Web.