I’m sick of people telling me that I need to drink more water and I would fix all my health problems (I had another dizzy spell this morning!) because it’s very clearly true. I’ve known this all along but I don’t care! I want an easier answer. I’ve been using your flowingdata to track how [...]
All posts for the month September, 2010
How much I drank in the past week
Posted by Shubha on September 30, 2010
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Indian court rules on Ayodhya
In 2002, when I was in India, the riots broke out in Gujarat. They were about (at least on the surface) a site in Ayodhya which had a mosque on it since the 16th century, but Hindus claim was the birthplace of Ram. In 1992 a group of extremist Hindus burnt down the mosque, starting [...]
Posted by Shubha on September 30, 2010
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Gargling with salt water
This one’s for my mom. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/health/28real.html Apparently gargling with salt water during cold/flu season really does help. I’m unclear on whether it helps when you’re in the middle of the cold, or just preventatively, but it seems even during a cold would work: A saline solution can draw excess fluid from inflamed tissues in the [...]
Posted by Shubha on September 28, 2010
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A little video
ok it looks, and sounds, like a 12 year old kid…but this is my video I made for Unny’s party. The last 30 seconds is stopmotion, which I sort of like!
Posted by Shubha on September 26, 2010
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Outsourced
Outsourced is that new sitcom about a white American who goes to India to setup a call center. I thought it was pretty cute! I mean, it was no Community, 30 Rock, or Modern Family…but it had it’s moments (my favorite was still the mistletoe belt). The great thing about it is it’s equally offending both hardcore Americans [...]
Posted by Shubha on September 24, 2010
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Data = me!
I just found out about your.flowingdata somehow.. through twitter I can start tracking ANYTHING about my life, basically, and then do all sorts of nifty graphs to present them. You can check out the graphs on that link. You input data by sending private tweets like “weigh 160″ or “watched Back to the Future”. Eventually [...]
Posted by Shubha on September 23, 2010
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The Projectionist
Brock’s favorite movie (it’s really good): Facts About Projection from Studiocanoe on Vimeo.
Posted by Shubha on September 22, 2010
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Why do Indians bob their heads?
A Facebook friend shared this photo link (which I recaptured myself) on Google. Now that Google auto-fills in what it thinks you’re searching for, it’s a fun way of seeing what people think of Indians! I think it’s good that people are curious about the head bobbing. But why stop there! I just had to [...]
Posted by Shubha on September 21, 2010
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Great ethnic segregation map
Bill Ranken did a series of dream maps where they placed points for ethnicities in different cities, ignoring the assigned geographic boundaries of “neighborhoods”. One dot represents 25 people of ethnicity X. Red is white, Blue is black, Green is Asian, Orange is hispanic. Bill did it for Chicago, and then Eric Fischer did it [...]
Posted by Shubha on September 20, 2010
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Beautiful infographic of country rankings
Newsweek made this infographic. I can’t figure out how to embed it. It sounds boring because it’s just how countries rank on 5 categories, but it has a very slick and fun interface. http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/15/interactive-infographic-of-the-worlds-best-countries.html If I have more time to play around with it I may find some nice things that I can say “check [...]
Posted by Shubha on September 17, 2010
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