NationStates Jolt Archive


interesting site

Demented Hamsters
05-06-2007, 04:45
This one is:
http://www.ethnologue.com/country_index.asp

tells you info about each country - population (with breakdown), literacy rates, and number of languages with detailed information following.

Papua New Guinea for example has 820 languages in a population of 5.4 mill - approx a different language for ever 6000 people.
0.8% of the world's population, 12% of the world's languages.

Anyone else found an interesting and informative (read: non-porn) site recently?
Hynation
05-06-2007, 04:51
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

This site has some of the most trivial crap I've ever seen...but its got just about everything!
Thumbless Pete Crabbe
05-06-2007, 04:51
Neat! Like World Factbook for languages. :)

I can't say I've found anything fun recently - I spend most time online messing with job sites (I'm looking for a new one). Not much fun.
Posi
05-06-2007, 04:57
http://uptime.netcraft.com/

It tells you what OS/Server combination a website uses, along with it's uptime.

Fun Fact: www.linuxsucks.org use Linux/Apache
Monkeypimp
05-06-2007, 04:59
an interesting and informative (read: non-porn) site

Not mutually exclusive.
Unambiguity
05-06-2007, 05:07
www.exitmundi.nl

Its a site about possible apocalypses, how it would happen and how likely it is. They have a forum too
Soleichunn
05-06-2007, 10:22
This one is:
http://www.ethnologue.com/country_index.asp

tells you info about each country - population (with breakdown), literacy rates, and number of languages with detailed information following.

Papua New Guinea for example has 820 languages in a population of 5.4 mill - approx a different language for ever 6000 people.
0.8% of the world's population, 12% of the world's languages.

Anyone else found an interesting and informative (read: non-porn) site recently?

http://www.ausaid.gov.au/country/png/hivaids.cfm

Interesting, I guess.
Thumbless Pete Crabbe
05-06-2007, 10:24
http://www.ausaid.gov.au/country/png/hivaids.cfm

Interesting, I guess.

I don't think it had to be about New Guinea. ;) Depressing, anyway.
Soleichunn
05-06-2007, 10:26
I don't think it had to be about New Guinea. ;) Depressing, anyway.

It was more to point out that PNG will become another massive HIV problem if more isn't done.
Andaras Prime
05-06-2007, 10:27
I was on a good porn site recently.
Thumbless Pete Crabbe
05-06-2007, 10:30
It was more to point out that PNG will become another massive HIV problem if more isn't done.

Ah, right. Seems there's still a chance to catch it early, at least.
The Blaatschapen
05-06-2007, 10:32
This one is:
http://www.ethnologue.com/country_index.asp

tells you info about each country - population (with breakdown), literacy rates, and number of languages with detailed information following.

Papua New Guinea for example has 820 languages in a population of 5.4 mill - approx a different language for ever 6000 people.
0.8% of the world's population, 12% of the world's languages.

Anyone else found an interesting and informative (read: non-porn) site recently?

The site thinks that things like "Zeeuws" are a language over here in the Netherlands... Thanks, I needed a good laugh :) But afaik. that's a dialect. And the bad thing is they totally forgot to put my dialect somewhere :(
Soleichunn
05-06-2007, 10:37
I was on a good porn site recently.

How recently? *looks and Andaras Prime's sticky keyboard*

Ewww
Andaras Prime
05-06-2007, 10:47
How recently? *looks and Andaras Prime's sticky keyboard*

Ewww

Well, not that recently.
Soleichunn
05-06-2007, 10:54
Well, not that recently.

Care to explain the sticky keyboard then?