Full Net Census Takes a Hint From xkcd 145
netbuzz writes "The University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute says it's the first full census of the 'visible Internet' since David Smallberg canvassed a piddling 315 allocated addresses in 1982. They're talking about 3 billion pings directed toward 2.8 million addresses over the course of 62 days. Oh, and they credit the comic strip xkcd for sparking the idea of presenting the data using a Hilbert curve." The main page for the census project has links to versions of the census at various scales.
What _is_ this site coming to? (Score:5, Insightful)
Not that its not cool, but acting like it hasn't been done since 1982 is grossly incorrect.
Re:What _is_ this site coming to? (Score:5, Insightful)
God, STFU (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe you should ask the people you're acting like you care about whether they actually need you to whine for them.
And in other news... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Really useful for the colorblind (Score:5, Insightful)
The main difference being, of course, that designing visual medium so that it supports both color-blind and normal visioned people equally well is extremely easy. Designing visual media that supports blind people is extremely difficult. There's no excuse, other than ignorance (which is the real reason in most cases), for not supporting color-blind people.
Re:See also xkcd comic "Online Communities" (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:God, STFU (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe you should ask yourself whether you're acting like a jerk for attention.
[It's great that YOU can read this map just fine, but that doesn't help ME. In fact, coming here and saying that there's no problem for anyone is actually detrimental. Perhaps you can keep your mild color-blindness to yourself in the future? You're not speaking for the rest of us; no one appointed you representative of Colorblindopolis.]
Re:My adventures in doing a "census" (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Yay, we really are Digg. (Score:3, Insightful)