An old coworker used to joke to me that all Asians look alike to her. While some may find this offensive, I knew that it was all in jest and chided right back that all white people look the same to me. I think that being Asian myself has helped me become familiar with specific features that are common within the various Asian races; I am usually pretty good when it comes to guessing whether a person is Chinese / Japanese / Korean / Filipino / Vietnamese / Thai / etc. That being said, when I stumbled upon a website called Asian Look-Alikes, where you are prompted to guess the ethnicity of the pictured person just based on their looks, I was...
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Webempires is a neat tool that aims to visualize the traffic of every website on the web. Basing its figures on the popular traffic aggregator Alexa, the site can be used to answer questions such as: What if your website was a country? What if all your visitors gathered in one place? And more! As of today, Alexa lists this blog as having 9,537 visitors per day. So if Geekinheels.com were a country, it would be larger than Montserrat! And if all the daily visitors were to gather in one place at the same time, it would surpass the number of people who gathered to break the Guinness World Record for the most people simultaneously making snow angels in one place: How does your site, or...
Continue reading...or just some impeccable timing caught on camera. Still, it made me LOL this sleepy Saturday morning. Via haha.nu. ...
Continue readingSince 1900, there have been six generations in the United States: G.I., Silent, Boomer, X, Millennial, and Z. While most people identify with one generation, I have the luck of having been born during a generational overlap — between X and Millennial. Could you have guessed this based on what social trends influenced me while growing up? USAToday believes so. In fact, they have created a fun interactive quiz which guesses your age based on your cultural experiences. I have always been told that I act older than my age, and that my tastes and preferences belong to someone who is older. This must hold true to some regard, because USAToday guessed the year of my birth as 1973, not 1980! How about you?...
Continue readingBeing married to a software engineer (which would fall under the web developer camp in this case), I can attest to the accuracy of this infographic. And just FYI, a There's no place like 127.0.0.1 doormat graces our front door. Via Six Revisions. ...
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