Sunday, August 27, 2006

Radio is Back!

WDCE

I'm back at Richmond and that means I'm back on WDCE. They don't have the schedule up yet on the website, but I can tell you the important show times as currently planned:

Tuesday 3pm-5pm - Darrell playing whatever is in the studio
Wednesday 1pm-3pm - Mai-Anh playing crazy "world" music
Thursday 1pm-3pm - Joseph playing Americana
Saturday 1pm-3pm - Mai-Anh and Robert playing "soundtracks"

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Name the Next Generation

NameVoyager

Someone as obsessed as me over name statistics, but more computer literate made this lovely little graph that shows the popularity of names over time. What I found entertaining to do was to see which letters were popular for starting names. There are some interesting patterns. Starting a name with "U" has never been popular apparently.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

One Wild Party

BBC

The center-right party of France is campaigning by giving out free condoms with the party logo. I'd love to see the fallout of a party in the US trying to do this.

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Germans Going Extinct

BBC

German birth rates continue to decline despite already being the lowest in the world. Statisticians also found an increase in the mortality rate thanks to the aging population. If the decline in population continues at this rate, Germany will be devoid of people by 2076.