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The census has a neat animated map that traces the movement of the United States' center of population from 1790 to 2000.

As strange as it seems now, Washington was a quite reasonable location for the capitol until the middle of the nineteenth century. At the moment, it lies half a mile southwest of Plato, MO, in Texas County. The 2010 center of population hasn't be ascertained yet, but if its movement follows the trend of the early locations, I'd expect it to be somewhere in Wright or Webster county, or maybe Douglas county if there's been stronger southerly shift than in the past.
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Here’s a page of the first 100,000 prime numbers.

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The release of the county data for the 2010 census has been finished.

They also have a neat list of state centers of population.. A few of the state capitols are in fact quite close to their centers of population (Harrisburg, PA; Lansing, MI), whereas others are quite far from them (Albany, NY; Sacramento, CA).
Delthayre wrote:The census has a neat animated map that traces the movement of the United States' center of population from 1790 to 2000.

As strange as it seems now, Washington was a quite reasonable location for the capitol until the middle of the nineteenth century. At the moment, it lies half a mile southwest of Plato, MO, in Texas County. The 2010 center of population hasn't be ascertained yet, but if its movement follows the trend of the early locations, I'd expect it to be somewhere in Wright or Webster county, or maybe Douglas county if there's been stronger southerly shift than in the past.
I'm an idiot, again! I somehow misunderstand something as Plato, MO is in fact the present center of population, the 2000 center of population was Edgar Springs, MO.
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Data Pointed has created color-coded maps of population change in the United States. I find some of them difficult to interpret (I had trouble figuring where things were on the map of Philadelphia), but they are interesting as they show not just the continued, however lamentable, growth of suburbs, but also growth in the old centers of many cities. Even the downtown of poor, beleaguered Detroit shows hopeful flickers of growth! (Said central urban growth might be understated by the smaller size of densely urban census tracts relative to far thinner populated, larger suburban ones)
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This one is for the programmers. Mathematically minded people may enjoy this too.

Sorting algorithms demonstrated via Hungarian, Romanian etc. folk dancing.

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Insertion sort: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROalU379l3U

There might be more of these, but these four are a good start.
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War Nerd is now writing a daily blog.

http://exiledonline.com/cat/war-nerd/

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Nerd
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Pellonpekko wrote:War Nerd is now writing a daily blog.

http://exiledonline.com/cat/war-nerd/

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Yeah, I tend to steer clear of anything on Exiled. The whole operation smells like the internet version of a talk show, and Mark Ames is a fucking idiot anyway.
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I love this, it definitely shows how maps not only skew the Arctic and Antarctic to be bigger, but also skew areas around the equator to be smaller:

http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosyste ... africa.jpg

I started looking into comparing the sizes of African countries with various US states, and I was actually surprised with my findings. Alaska, for example, is about 40,000 sq.km. smaller than Libya, which is actually the 4th largest country in Africa (after Sudan, Algeria, and DRC, though Sudan not for much longer).

Texas is about the size of Somalia (18th largest in Africa), and California roughly the size of Morocco (24th largest). Texas is actually about 60,000 sq.km larger than Somalia, but California is 20,000 sq.km smaller than Morocco! Montana is similar to Zimbabwe (25th largest), and New Mexico to Côte d'Ivoire (27th largest) (though both Montana and New Mexico are smaller, by about 10,000 sq.km and 8,000 sq.km respectively)...and that rounds out the largest 5 US states.

My own home state of Connecticut is roughly the size of Gambia, the 6th smallest country in all of Africa, and the smallest continental country in Africa (about 3,000 sq.km larger, actually).

There are 12 African countries larger than 1,000,000 sq.km (3 larger than 2,000,000), compared with Alaska being the only US state larger than 1,000,000 sq.km. (1,717,854 sq.km)

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