Human Census

This Site Has Been Moved

olynnduncan — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:37:52 +0000

We are officially now on humancensus.com, please join us here for our daily questions.

Here’s our RSS feed for the new site at humancensus.com:

Also, here is a link if you want to subscribe to the daily Human Census RSS email, that will notify you when the new question is posted:

Subscribe to Human Census by Email

No further posts or updates will be added to this site.

Upgrading… So The Site May Be Feisty Today

olynnduncan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:04:40 +0000

Hey, so I’m finishing moving the site to its own shiny new hosting, so I can add cool features like “vote on this comment” and other stuff.

Quick explanation– and I’ll try not to lose anyone in the process–

I just redirected humancensus.com back over to humancensus.wordpress.com, while the DNS and all that other geeky stuff gets settled on the new URL.

If you’re not into tech stuff, ignore all of what you just read, and continue checking out HC exactly as you always do.

If you’re a geek to the core, and using RSS, it may be a little botched for a day or two, but you can always check out the site directly.

Hopefully, the transfer will go smoothly and no one will notice a thing!

Day 24 Question

olynnduncan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:56:00 +0000

Photo courtesy of Rick.

From Jon:

“How do you relieve stress?”

Report on Day 23

olynnduncan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:28:14 +0000

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

Day 23 Question

olynnduncan — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:46:39 +0000

Photo courtesy of chispita_666.

From Becky:

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

Report on Day 22

olynnduncan — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:40:04 +0000

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).

Day 22 Question

olynnduncan — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:59:27 +0000

What’s your favorite color?

P.S. Becky answered yesterday’s question first, but I forgot to follow up to get today’s question. So she has first dibs on tomorrow’s question.

Report on Day 21

olynnduncan — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:23:01 +0000

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…

Day 21 Question

olynnduncan — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:20:20 +0000

Who are your heroes?

Report on Day 20

olynnduncan — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:48:50 +0000

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).