You might be aware that 1 in 8 American’s lives in California, yet the rest of the American west is still rather unoccupied. It would be very interesting to hold up this chart and a similar one for China and compare the two. Shanghai is around 3 x the size of New York City, and there are more than 100 cities with over 1,000,000 residents.
According to Google, Manhattan’s population density is 66,940/mi2. In 1910, Manhattan reached a peak population density of 120,250/mi2
My hometown (Downtown Shanghai) has an average population density of 88,140/mi2. Here in City Center (Huangpu District), it’s probably well above 100,000 considering the population here is noticeably higher… On the bright side, move to China and you’ll never be alone 
See the clickable Flash version at TIME’s “Where we Live” article.
Shanghai Population Density Numbers (Chinese only)
Shanghai Population Density FAR outstrips Tokyo, Paris and New York (Chinese Only)
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The Digital Doomesday Book created in the UK in 1986 is already nearly unreadable, because there are no systems that are able to access the media created by the system. Meanwhile, the original Doomesday book created in 1086 by Norman monks is still in good conditon. See the Gaurdian story…
There is an opportunity to create a service, somewhat similar to data recovery, to move the data from these systems into new formats. This business would need to constantly be in search of the OLDEST equipment, ever reaching further back in time. The further back, the more the value that can be added, as things go from passe to antique.
You could start with:
• 1.44MB Floppy Disks
• 3.5 MB Large Floppy Disk
• Iomega ZIP Drives (100MB and 250MB formats)
• MS DOS, Win 3.11, Win 95
• VCR Drives
With this equipment acquired you could access most anything created post 1990. At that point you work backward to locate ever older storage/conversion equipment. You could get 9 MB Tapes. Scour garage sales in Silicon Valley looking for working yet inexpensive equipment.
Not only would drives be required, but complete working systems where the recovery engineer can sit down and inspect the data with the original program intended to operate the system.
Sounds like a friend of mine’s ideas for a Mac Museum could turn into yet another business…
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You may have heard the story that when Coca-Cola first came to China and translated their name into Chinese, they used something that translated as “Bite The Wax Tadpole”. I thought that could mean that they use “壳口蝌曜“, but they originally picked the even more funny “蝌蝌啃蜡” which does literally translate as Bite the Tadpole.
Here’s the Chinese Reference: http://www.89mc.com/resource/cases/20070411/News200704112646.shtml
And in case you’ve ever heard the story about how the Chevy Nova was originally received in the Spanish market as the Chevy “No Go”, you should review the Urban Legends page that proves quite the opposite. So there you go, Coca-Cola can replace GM as the typical example of what can go wrong in i18n and l10n.
http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
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