Report on Day 23

Question: “For you, are”organic” and “all-natural” worth paying extra money in the grocery store?”

Participation: 72 site views

Responses: 7

Snippets:

Stephen: “My reasoning is that since I don’t spend any money on alcoholic beverages, I can spend a little extra to increase the quality of the food which I consume.”

Katie: “I think it’s worth paying a little more not to put chemicals and hormones into our bodies.”

Becky: “My husband is very anti-pesticides so we hope to grow much of our own food someday soon.”

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Please excuse a brief observation from the peanut gallery…

Wow! I had no idea that so many people were into organic food. This is one thing that I love about Human Census– in asking the questions, my assumptions are often challenged and I really get to learn more about other people.

Here’s a funny link to “food desert“, courtesy of reader Stephen.

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The One World Cafe Project

(This is an organic pay-what-you-feel-is-right, take-only-what-you-can-eat, restaurant in Salt Lake City, Utah (they also have some other locations).

It’s a great concept– here’s an interview on YouTube with the founder, Denise Cerreta. I’ve eaten there, and the food is fantastic.

Organic Recipes

Organic (Wikipedia)

Behind The Scenes Info on the Supersize Me Experiment

Report on Day 22

Question: What is your favorite color?

Participation: 45 site views

Responses: 3

Snippets:

Jon: “I did a Google search for the meanings of colors and found this site: http://crystal-cure.com/color-meanings.html.”

Aurelius: “…The complexity of a language is often indicated by the number of words they have for colours, meaning real words, not things like “puce” and “beige”… apparently English has 11. And some languages have two or three times that.”

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Wikipedia: Color
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Color
According to this article, there are at least 18 decillion colors (18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000).

Report on Day 21

Question: “Who are your heroes?”
Participation: 33 site views
Responses: 4

Snippets:

Becky: “I also really look up to my mom. Now that I have a family I really appreciate all that she does for me.”

Aurelius: “Mikey Robins, a comedian from my home town.”

Jon: “Certainly my dad. He has worked so hard so that my sister and I can live better lives.”

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Always Wanted To Be A Superhero?

(…who wouldn’t?)

Check out this awesome site: City of Heroes Collectible Card Game. You can make a “baseball card” of yourself or anyone else as a “superhero”.

I was looking through their gallery of superheroes, found this one, and thought you all might get a kick out of it…

Report on Day 20

Question: “If, for one year, you had to relocate to a place where they do not speak your native language, where would you go and why?”

Participation: 59 site views

Responses:9

Snippets:

Ash: “I would pick Hollywood as my destination because they don’t speak my language (and don’t relate to me in any way). In fact I’m quite certain they’re from another planet altogether.”

Nick: “I don’t think there is a place in the world where they do not speak my language……the language of love.”

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A quick glance at where our other readers would go:

O’lynn: Asia.
Thom: Japan, South Korea, Eastern European, Sweden, Denmark.
Jon: Greece, Egypt, China.
Stephen: Norway, Japan.
Mark: Netherlands.
Becky: Sweden, Denmark.
Aurelius: The Roman Empire.

Some Geography/World Travel-Related Sites

GoogleEarth (so awesome!)
Platial
LonelyPlanet
VirtualTourist
VirtualTourismBlog (click on the links on the left side of the site to see satellite tours of various locations).

Report on Day 19

Question: What do you really care about? Which concepts and causes are important in your world?
Participation: 114 site views (our 2nd best day ever!)
Responses: 6
Notable Answers (I’m changing this section slightly; it has felt awkward for some reason).
Snippets:

Stephen: “Wow, that picture makes one reconsider their answer.”

(By the way, you can see more awesome photos by the photographer here.)

Enny: “It was an amazing moment of clarity when I realised that meat was actually animal, and another not long after where I realised that my desire for a mars bar was not greater than animals right to a life free of suffering.”

Jon: “As far as causes . . . I focus on developing lasting, meaningful relationships. We’re all in this together.”

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You May Not Know What Really Matters (kind of a simple article, but I really like it.)
Change.org (an awesome site for connecting with others interested in the same causes you care about)

Report on Day 18

Question: “What do you do when you’re bored?”

Participation: 67 site views

Responses: 11

Notable Answers:

Michael: “I’m only bored at the day-job, and I fill that time by coming up with new ways to look busy, the challenge is finding ways to at least look like i am ‘not-bored’.”

FoxyDot: “Read my RSS feeds and end up here (www.humancensus.com.”

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33-ish Things Our Readers Do To Fight Boredom

1. Check email
2. Work on the blogs
3. Draw odd cartoons
4. Go longboarding, go in the evening and take an iPod with you
5. Draw gazillions of stars
6. Come up with new ways to look busy
7. Read blogs
8. Sort emails
9. Do frivolous web searches
10. Drool and/or eat
11. Start new projects, blogs, businesses
12. Bake
13. Come up with new recipes
14. Get working on a new project
15. Go outside and enjoy
16. Read my RSS feeds and end up here (humancensus.com)
17. Catch up on chatting with old friends., give them a call or write a lettter
18. Check facebook and digg
19. Go for a walk
20. Work out
21. Cook
22. Clean
23. Call friends and plan something
24. DDR (Dance Dance Revolution)
25. Explore Seattle
26. Read
27. Swim
28. Bike ride
29. Hike
30. Write
31. Read
32. Watch TV
33. Ring friends

Other Sites That May Give You Ideas

474 Things To Do When You’re Bored
Fun Things To Do When Severly Bored
Watch All 365 Episodes of the Ze Frank Show (not for the faint of heart;) )
Dress Like 12 Kinds of Animals
Site That’s Boring
A Sweet “Bored In Class” Prank

Report on Day 17

Question: “ Are you going to Harry Potter 5? Do you like the movies or books better?”

Participation: 54 site views

Responses: 9

Notable Answers:

I think it’s notable that most answers were mixed or indifferent:

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Links

Harry Potter 5 on IMDB
Movie Trailer
Harry Potter 5 on Rotten Tomatoes
Wikipedia page for Harry Potter 5 (119 references–many Wikipedia articles have <10!)
Muggle’s Guide to HP5

Random Info

(from Wikipedia)

• The German translation of this book is 151 pages longer than the English version.
• The book was published June 21, 2003 in the UK and the majority of other countries. It sold almost seven million copies in the UK and United States combined on that day.
• The film budget was between 150-200 million. (They could have bought a Dreamliner instead! )
• Filming the movie started in Feb 2006 and ended in Nov/Dec 2006.
• The movie is 138 minutes.

Report on Day 16

Question: “What do you think of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplane? What will be its impact on the aviation industry?”

Participation: 61 site views

Responses: 2

Notable Answers:

Mark: “The Dreamliner appears to be a great innovation in the airline industry. My impression of its impact on the industry, will be a stepping up the bar effect to other companies. The new features may be modeled in other companies new outfits. Those virtual tours are fancy!”

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Links

Boeing rolls out Dreamliner for the world
Boeing gears up for Dreamliner debut – CNN.com
Live 787 Dreamliner Premiere

Stats on the Dreamliner

(from Wikipedia)

• Number of Dreamliners already ordered: 677
• Sales price of one Dreamliner: $146–151.5 million
• Potential sales revenue Boeing will make according to first orders: $98.842 billion-$102.565 billion
• Production days needed to assemble a new 787 airplane: 3
• Number of employees it took to do the first “final assembly” of the plane: 800-1200

Report on Day 15

Day 15 Question: “Which kinds of information do you consider “safe” or “unsafe” to share online?”

Participation: 46 site views

Responses: 4

Notable Answers:

Aurelius: “…In personal contact though (emails, messengers etc) I treat them like any strangers – until I really get to know people, I don’t give out anything identifying. The same as you would in any public place meeting people in the early stages of getting to know them.”

Jon: “Big “no-no’s” for me are personal ID (except email, sometimes cell), detailed information about my family (yes, I have one), and account #s (duh!). My blog is for my business and contains information about getting a hold of me. Regarding my blog, I do talk about client experiences but leave names and specific details out.”

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Related Articles

How Much Info Is Too Much Info?
http://personalweb.about.com/cs/securityprivacy/a/311toomuchinfo.htm

More About Identity Theft
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/

Identity Theft Prevention & Recovery Guide
http://www.insideid.com/idtheft/article.php/3438261

Keep Your Identity Safe Online
http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/guide85.html

Report on Day 14

Day 14 Question: “Today’s my 1/2 birthday… so, when’s yours?”

Participation: 16 site views

Responses: 4

Notable Answers:

Ryan: “If only 23 people hit this page, the probability that two share a 1/2 birthday is more than 50% (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox )”.

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I realized, after posting yesterday’s question, that I don’t want to encourage sharing highly personal info (such as birthdate) on this site. Sorry about that.

Then I found an article, discussing the pros, cons, and potential side effects of the social media revolution, where we  join all of these social networking sites and thus, personal information may or may not be safeguarded as it has in the past or perhaps “should.”

Here’s the article– the Day 15 Question is going to be related to this topic.