Freaky (not mousemats)

Posted by stephen on Thursday, 23rd March, 2006 @ 20:27

What an incredibly small world we live in. Canada is the second largest country in the world (10 million square kilometres, though under 33 million people). I know two Canadians. I met them entirely independently of each other, many months apart, and they've never spoken or met. Both of these fellows now live in the UK, about 40 miles apart. And they have one degree of separation. Julian's Dad was Aaron's geography teacher. How completely bizarre.

The CIA world fact book indicates that the UK has almost double the population squished into 1/40th the land mass. Blimey. Guess it doesn't get quite so cold here though. Now I'm stuck in the world fact book reading all about the UK and comparing it to other countries, it can almost compete with Wikipedia for time sucked away. See, I research my blog posts.

Also freaky, yet unrelated to mouse mats this week is Fat Pie. A couple of weeks ago I linked to Spoilsbury Toast Boy -2, I think I referred to it as bizarre, yet totally compelling. I think the same goes for the rest of the stuff on this guy's site. A particular favourite is The Child That Smelt Funny which has an unusually political message (compared to the rest of the site anyway).