Recent Links: February 01 to February 04

A scan of The Usborne Book of the Future.

“First published in 1979 by Usborne Books, and written by Kenneth Gatland and David Jefferis.

“A trip in time to the year 2000 and beyond. See the robots, machines and cities of the future, and then travel to the stars.”

Enter personal information about yourself to be bar coded. All of the calculations in Barcode Yourself are based on real world facts, gathered from the Internet. Data like the Gross Domestic Product of each country. Lichtenstein is #1, USA #2, and Sierra Leone is last. From the Center for Disease control, I used the Body Mass Index to figure out how healthy a person is based on height and weight. And from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research I discovered the “Gender Gap” which states that “Women Average 72 Cents For Each $1 Earned By A Man.