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| Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com. |
| Where are your namesakes located? |
| 2:26:33 am mst / 20 March 2001 found by paul / filed in fun / source Memepool 378 hits / 2 comments / 0 e-mails |
| This cool program from Hamrick software take your last name (or any surname) and displays the geographic distribution of people with the same last name. (Link via Memepool.) |
| I can understand why "Hsieh" would be especially common in California. I have no idea why the name "Brickell" is disproportionately popular in Arkansas... |
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| cross referencing with yahoo white pages by diana 9:16:33 am mst / 20 March 2001 / # 1 |
| I found it very strange that Arkansas had so many Brickells. (Brickell is my maiden name.) In all the family history that we've compiled, Arkansas never showed up as having a concentration of Brickells. So I searched for Brickells in the Yahoo white pages in Arkansas: only two. In Colorado, the only other highlighted state, there were 25. Other random states I checked: Maryland: 9 Pensylvania: 23 New York: 20 Virginia: 12 In these cases, the population density of Brickells is probably pretty low, even though the absolute numbers are high. So Colorado, with a fairly low population and a large number of Brickells, seems accurate. But Arkansas... I think not. |
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| *sniff* by MysteriousStranger 12:03:11 pm mst / 20 March 2001 / # 2 |
| My name *DELETED* was not one of the top 50,000 and thus I could not be helped. However, I was amused that it suggested I change the spelling of my last name. Yeah, I'll get right on that... |