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I've spent too much time playing around on this amusing thing today, it tells you the geographical distribution and relative status (along with other stuff) of surnames in Great Britain in 1998 (also in 1881 and in Australia, the US and Canada, but without the maps for the non-GB locations). For example ( Read more... )

What do the following have in common?

1. China's global hegemony
2. Eurabia
3. Myspace's internet hegemony

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Who do we go with on the future of the world's food?

The Economist

OR

Jonathan Porritt (the George Monbiot of the 1980s)?

Needless to say, they both display their expected biases through the omitted linkages/justifications of various bits'n'pieces.