Nothing like a little infographicporn to brighten one’s day. This one asserts that if you took all 300 million-or-so inhabitants of the United States and packed them all into one place at the population density of Brooklyn, NY (which is to say 35,000 people per square mile), everybody would fit into an area about the size of the state of New Hampshire. (graphic found at Strange Maps, actual origin unknown)
Now, if you really wanted to pack ‘em in, you’d want to go with the population density of Mumbai, which has a population density of 76,793.5 people per square mile. That would squeeze everybody into a space the size of Connecticut, with each person’s own space coming to about a little over 4,600 square feet. Heck, a one-bedroom apartment in New York is lucky to be 750 square feet, so that’s PLENTY of room for each person!
Sorry, no pets, no smokers.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
