http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMS8K_Swu10
In class, we watched a video about Starcraft and South Korea. This is a BBC News Report on World of Warcraft and Chinese gold farmers that sell the gold to the UK. But they do not only sell them to the UK, they sell them to the United States, and I'm sure any other country where there is a market. Players already play around $15 a month to access the servers, and pay somewhere between $30 and $50, each, for the CD's to install the game, and its two expansions.Even with these costs already in place, people are willing to pay even more to get ahead.
I play WoW and see it alot. I also know people that have gotten banned for illegal gold trading and so forth. I find it really strange that while the Internet is strictly monitored in China, a game like WoW, which is very social and about working together, but also very capitalist, is allowed to prospect. My only guess is that it is allowed because it is a good source of income for the country and decent jobs that require little skill and little capital.
Friday, May 1, 2009
#15 World Name Profile
http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/
First,
Little: I tell everyone its English, it sounds English. Reality, there are more Little's in Australia and New Zealand, then in the UK. The top ten list shows that it is most common in Western Europe, Australia/New Zealand and US/Canada, which makes senses geographically and historically, because they were all settled by the same people.
Second,
Spreng: It is my grandmother's maiden name, she immigrated from Germany after WWII.
Results: 1. Germany, 2. Switzerland, 3. Austria, 4. France, 5. US, 6. Argentina, 7. Serbia, 8. Cananda, 9. UK, 10. Italy.
Third, (Doctor Who)
I always thought that the creators of Doctor Who were a bit lazy with the surnames. The Doctor often goes by John Smith, the series three companion is names Martha Jones, and Sarah Jane Smith and Mickey Smith are both reoccurring characters.
Results:
Smith:
Also, for fun...
Tyler: UK 276 & US 224
Harkness: New Zealand 99 & UK 65
Noble: Australia 428 & UK 399
First,
Little: I tell everyone its English, it sounds English. Reality, there are more Little's in Australia and New Zealand, then in the UK. The top ten list shows that it is most common in Western Europe, Australia/New Zealand and US/Canada, which makes senses geographically and historically, because they were all settled by the same people.
Second,
Spreng: It is my grandmother's maiden name, she immigrated from Germany after WWII.
Results: 1. Germany, 2. Switzerland, 3. Austria, 4. France, 5. US, 6. Argentina, 7. Serbia, 8. Cananda, 9. UK, 10. Italy.
Third, (Doctor Who)
I always thought that the creators of Doctor Who were a bit lazy with the surnames. The Doctor often goes by John Smith, the series three companion is names Martha Jones, and Sarah Jane Smith and Mickey Smith are both reoccurring characters.
Results:
Smith:
- Australia 12254
- UK 12176
- New Zealand 9009
- US 9000
- Ireland 4559
- Canada 3093
- Norway347
- Denmark 302
- Netherlands 235
- Sweden 161
- UK 9298
- Australia 6132
- US 4954
- New Zealand 4002
- Canada 1668
- Ireland 1316
- Argentina 84
- Sweden 79
- Luxembourg 76
- Spain 69
Also, for fun...
Tyler: UK 276 & US 224
Harkness: New Zealand 99 & UK 65
Noble: Australia 428 & UK 399
#13 Bizzaire Foods
What people traditionally eat is very dependent on what kind of climate they live in. Because different foods grow in different conditions, it makes it hard to have something that does not grow well as a food staple. Like, it would be really hard of the Great Plains to grow rice, so they don't. They grow corn, and traditionally eat a lot of it. Aside from agriculture, it would be hard for Mexicans to have a traditional diet that includes buffalo, because buffalo don't live in Mexico; its too warm.
As globalization spreads, it is getting easier to regions to import food items that they can not grow themselves, and so, like everything else, food is getting to be globalized. Examples of this are McDonald's on every corner of every city. But they are not all the same, still depending on the different traditions of the regions. I have always heard that British and Western Europe's beef is much more lean than the US's, which most American's interpret as tasting badly, when it is really just a
regional difference.#12 G-20 Summit
The Picture is of Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The focus in the states seemed to be of President Obama meeting the Queen, but in reality, she has little political power. The power that she does have is rooted in the loyalty of the people shes 'rules', so it is very good that he didn't upset her. But the truth is that Gordon Brown, and who ever follows him, are the people that we really want to impress and work with.#11 Google Earth
I like this view, because you always here about how big the Pacific Ocean is and how far it is across the Atlantic. We see the Pacific because of Hawaii and the Atlantic because its what all the pilgrims crossed. You never really see the Indian Ocean in its fullness. Its only shown in bits, or is distorted. I never realized how big it is.
The Indian Ocean is huge.
#9 Spring Break Travels
Over Spring Break, I drove home to Sparta, Illinois (B) and during the week, I went north to visit my baby sister at Eastern Illinois University, in Charleston, Illinois(c) where she is a freshman.
One the right is a picture of her and her roommate and their dorm room door that they decorate regularly, to match the season. When I was visiting, it had a barn and farm animals. It makes their room really easy to find.
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