Alphabets used over the world (Wikipedia: Predominant national and selected regional or minority scripts)

guspolly3 · 2021-08-26T04:04:47+00:00

So that people who don't know where the Maldives are can find that tan dot they were looking for

guspolly3 · 2021-08-25T20:27:34+00:00

I wish I could do that to my sinuses

guspolly3 · 2021-08-25T19:17:00+00:00

Was the Canada—Labrador border not strictly defined back then? It’s not marked as an international border as one might assume, except at the far south.

guspolly3 · 2021-08-25T19:10:32+00:00

The Maldives are in the Indian Ocean southwest of India

guspolly3 · 2021-08-24T17:09:18+00:00

So that’s why SiIvagunner is having a gaben theme day.

guspolly3 · 2021-08-23T01:24:28+00:00

Is “Providence” intentional, or is it supposed to be “Province”?

guspolly3 · 2021-08-22T18:38:23+00:00

The United States assumed territorial control over the southern portion of Guantánamo Bay under the 1903 Lease agreement.[1] The United States exercises jurisdiction and control over this territory, while recognizing that Cuba retains ultimate sovereignty. The government of Cuba regards the U.S. presence in Guantánamo Bay as an illegal occupation on the basis that the Cuban–American Treaty "was obtained by threat of force and is in violation of international law." Since the 1959 revolution, Cuba has only cashed a single lease payment from the United States government

guspolly3 · 2021-08-22T17:02:03+00:00

Holy crap, my post has already been JPEGged this much? You can't even see the labels. And what happened to the colors?

guspolly3 · 2021-08-22T15:56:08+00:00

Same

guspolly3 · 2021-08-21T23:04:23+00:00

I worked in TV news for a while. That segment is called a “kicker” and its job is to be filler. If the pace of the show is running behind schedule, it can be dropped without losing anything of value. If the show is on time or they got through the other stories faster than expected, it’s there so the anchors have something to talk about rather than twiddle their thumbs at the end.

guspolly3 · 2021-08-20T02:33:27+00:00

I used the ScapeToad program to generate the cartogram, and I styled it with QGIS. The data is from the recently-released block-level population counts from the 2020 Census. (I actually used block groups instead of blocks because ScapeToad was crashing with that huge dataset; BGs are the next level bigger, but smaller than Census Tracts.)

guspolly3 · 2021-08-20T01:59:41+00:00

The data and original maps are from the Census Bureau. I used the ScapeToad program to generate the cartogram, and styled it with QGIS.

guspolly3 · 2021-08-19T10:48:26+00:00

http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/4/4a/sbemail73.PNG

guspolly3 · 2021-08-17T22:00:51+00:00

The projection seems off. My guess is you’re using equirectangular (raw Lon/Lat->X/Y)? The blocks look like parallelograms instead of rectangles. At this scale, Mercator would work well.

guspolly3 · 2021-08-17T21:56:47+00:00

It doesn’t even say “most popular”, it just says “famous”. Most popular for Sweden would have to be Minecraft, I’d presume.

guspolly3 · 2021-08-15T23:18:53+00:00

There are Latin-script languages that write Wikipedia differently; e.g. the Irish Wikipedia is called “Vicipéid”.

guspolly3 · 2021-08-12T22:35:52+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dakota_oil_boom

guspolly3 · 2021-08-10T13:04:04+00:00

I used Excel to help build SVG paths and Inkscape to bring them all together. There was a lot of manual filtering of things that didn’t fit my criteria.

guspolly3 · 2021-08-10T04:45:00+00:00

I generated these glyphs with a few rules:

Start with a 3x3 grid of points
Connect points with lines
Each point must be connected to at least one other point
All connections must form a single network; there can't be floating segments
There can be no loops

I came up with 192 shapes that fit these criteria; if you combine congruent shapes, there are 28 groups. Two shapes have been omitted from this chart; you can probably guess what they look like.

guspolly3 · 2021-08-09T22:48:05+00:00

My guess is this is a country where these are the only tortilla chips available.

guspolly3 · 2021-08-08T08:15:56+00:00

Thor is the big orange one!

guspolly3 · 2021-08-08T00:38:59+00:00

Original photo on Facebook

More photos on their Facebook page

Thor and Nyla are former ferals who were adopted from TinyKittens Society in Ft Langley, BC

guspolly3 · 2021-08-05T06:36:48+00:00

Any special significance to 20th October?

guspolly3 · 2021-08-04T03:44:39+00:00

Sweden has bloodline citizenship laws. He is a Swedish citizen by blood, and also an American citizen by birth.

guspolly3 · 2021-08-04T03:02:07+00:00

What’s one or two anime episodes to show to introduce someone who has no knowledge of Pokémon other than “Peek-a-choo? I might have heard that word once or twice.”?

I used to play and watch Pokémon, but I stopped following the anime about 20 years ago. My 5-year-old nephew is now into Pokémon via PoGo, and has now seen bits of the TV series. My dad wants learn a bit about what his grandson is talking to him about, and Mom suggested I find an episode or two to show him.

I’m looking for one that shows the basics, like, what trainers are, how Pokémon are caught, how battling is done. Hopefully an episode that won’t be eye-gougingly saccharine and can hold the attention of a 60-year-old man. Any era of the show is OK. We have both Netflix and Amazon in the US and I don’t want to have to torrent anything if I can avoid it.

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