All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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I would definitely be more for the second of "LA: ita, Allyson, Burrell, alibelle, kat, lori, blahblahblahtoomanybuffistastocount..."
Could it be one of those things where it has a star or x or whatever there, and when you hover your mouse over it, a list pops up of who lives there?
t /having no idea how to make that happen
Or should we just have a huge forest of arrows pointing to LA saying "Kat, Lori, ita, Allyson, Aimée, MM, Joss etc."?
How about just one arrow per city and a list of names.
And now that I think of it, some Buffistas will have two cities, like Alibelle.
when you hover your mouse over it, a list pops up of who lives there
We had something like that, certainly. It doesn't work in all browsers, but it can be possible.
My original idea has pop-up windows and little descriptions of the places we live in.
It's here but only Australia works.
Ooooh! John, it's
lovely!
Thank you!
I guess if we do "Buffistas outside the USA" as one project and worry about those inside the USA as another, that could work.
Where do you live, FayJay? Somewhere in the Home Counties, right?
Here are the issues as I see them:
- As well as the scale issue, there is the steady influx of new people, and Buffistas escaping bad places to consider. While the arrows (and stars etc) would look good, I would imagine they'd also take a lot of time to update.
- Finding maps to use. Our base map zooms in, but isn't high on detail. The maps at Enchanted Learning are great, but using them on a web site would be breaking their copyright agreement.
I figure the first one is just going to take a little bit of creative thinking to hash out, the second one is my main concern.
Also, Spain, Guinea, Malta?! People, send your name, city/town, state, and country to minmar_00 at hotmail.com if you'd like to be on the map, I am still updating the lists (sorry about the ads, I have a blocker so I didn't realise. I'll move them to my ISP page when I get a minute) while we figure out the logistics.
John H., Billytea and Rob - It seems that Australia is about to get the
worlds tallest humanmade object.
It's here but only Australia works.
Hee. "Adelaide is known for its churches, its fine wines and its serial killers."
(And as it happens, only the Northern Territory has a higher murder rate in Australia.)
John H., Billytea and Rob - It seems that Australia is about to get the worlds tallest humanmade object.
Yep. It was reported in The Economist a couple of months ago. The firm claims that the plant will be competitive with Australian coal (the world's cheapest), though this relies on, effectively, a subsidy to reduce greenhouse gas emmissions. Not, in and of itself, a bad thing IMO; but it'd be politically and economically more secure if it can become more efficient in the future. (New technologies often do, of course.)
Meanwhile, I believe I speak for all Melburnians at least when I say "at least it's not the Grollos".
After seeing John's map, I totally believe in the project. I guess I thought of all the Australians as living on the upper right, and I didn't know Min was from there at all. That was really cool.
do "Buffistas outside the USA" as one project and worry about those inside the USA as another, that could work.
That works for me, because I feel like I'm talking to all these exotic people when I see where John H lives, but when I find out Allyson lives in California, I'm like, "Oh. My grandmother lives there."
I think the zoomed-out map should have one arrow per spot and the number of Buffistas who live at that spot. Clicking the number pops up the names. It would fit better and would give you a good idea of the distribution. If you were looking around the map for a specific person, you could use the list. If you were thinking, "I wonder how many people live in Washington, D.C., or if anyone lives in Russia," you could use the map.
Doesn't Australian coal rely on subsidies for it's cheapness? A few months ago I tried to find out the actual cost of Australian coal, and ended up with a letter from one of your ministers explaining (extremely politely, and with absolute sympathy for my innocence as a non-aussie) that this was a trade secret.