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Yesterday I published some Popmundo name statistics, but here’s some I haven’t published before. Most common names (first name and family name combined).
Turns out that there are 24 names that occur 6 times or more in the game.
So here’s the list:
6 times
David Russell
Stephen Taylor
Pınar Sever
David Taylor
Paco López
Su Şahin
David Hughes
David Davis
İclal Şahin
Edward Cullen
7 times
David Williams
John Taylor
Scott [...]
In the middle of the summer heat, what would be cooler than having a fresh name database? Well probably some ice cream which I’m having right now, but here’s the stats for this week:
http://popodeus.com/namesearch/
Number of names: 355,792
Different firstnames: 13,464
Different familynames: 41,332
Name minimum length: 5
Name maximum length: 48
Mean: 13.927 characters/name
Standard deviation: 3.414
Skewness: 1.321
Variance: 11.658
All the letters [...]
Popmundo, a game of Pop and Rock (and music in general) has its idols and inspiration. The king of Pop, Michael Jackson surely was one of them. May he rest in peace.
This blog post has nothing to do with Popmundo or Popodeus in general, but this is just my quick rant on the current trend of CSS sprites.
They suck.
They’re too complicated to build, redesigning your site after you’ve used them is more difficult, changing one icon or graphic forces you to resend the entire sprite map, [...]
I got lots of old and previous sites, but for those of who need to access the previous version, it can be found here http://tr.popodeus.com/
Oh yes, I took the new website live, despite still having some serious technical issues. I decided holding back wasn’t an option anymore. We’re going forward, baby!
And that’s the direction that should make us all happy.
Right now I got a long “things to fix” list, but… please leave a comment if you find anything odd, [...]
Yesterday there were 358,257 characters in Popmundo.
Only 13,489 different first names, of which 3,076 (22.8%) are unique.
There are 41,691 different family names of which 15,987 (38.3%) are unique, meaning only one character has it.
Full list of unique Popmundo names:
http://popodeus.com/unique-poponames-2009-06-09.html (warning, it’s a 173kB HTML file with over 19,000 lines)
Any loyal visitor to Popodeus may have noticed that the site occasionally changes looks, and then the suddenly disappears offline, pops up again and looks different. Well, that’s because we’ve had some server troubles and had to relocate the content quite a few times between multiple servers. And something seems to break or change on [...]
Finally! We’re getting our jetpacks for the 21st century like we deserve.
https://labs.mozilla.com/2009/05/introducing-jetpack-call-for-participation/
There’s a short explanation of what it is and a demonstration video.
This seems a lot like Greasemonkey, but with several interesting integration points, with embedded jQuery and a cross-domain XMLHttpRequest object by default and tighter integration with the browser user interface.
Will this outgrow the [...]
So I wasn't entirely happy with the statistics of yesterday and cleaned up my routines. The two names with '?' in them have been fixed by the devs so I updated my name database to contain these fixes also. Also as promised, I am listing most common names today.
Please read the complete news post to see details.