http://rawnumber.com Making sense out of the daily stream of numbers and information one byte at a time. Wed, 14 May 2008 12:00:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few months back there were reports that the undersea cables that bring internet connectivity to Iraq and a few surrounding countries were getting "accidentally" cut. Three or more, only a few days apart. Ever wonder what that network of cables looks like? Where the worlds internet superhighways actually sit? Take a ... http://rawnumber.com/technology/map-of-the-worlds-undersea-internet-cables/ Right now is a really bad time to try to keep track of which auto company owns which brands since they are all consolidating, selling & canceling their various brands. Till the time comes that there is a GM-Ford brand (and I would not be surprised to see that in ... http://rawnumber.com/business/automotive-ownership-map/ How much oil do we think there is right now? Who has it and more importantly how much do that consume? As most everyone knows now a days the countries that make up the Middle East hold over 60% of the worlds known oil supply. Which adds up to over ... http://rawnumber.com/politics/who-has-the-worlds-oil/ Where are the major oil fields in the US? How about the Nuclear power plants or coal fields? What parts have the most solar energy potential? MSNBC took data from various US departments and created a rough outline of where these energy sources are. The maps are a bit overloaded ... http://rawnumber.com/politics/energy-map-of-america/ What if you have a real time map of the worlds earthquakes, volcano eruptions, hurricanes/typhoons, wars, epidemics & toxic accidents? All being tracked over time and all tied to a nice zoomable Google maps interface. That would seem both long overdue and probably impossible to pull off. Someone has done it. An ... http://rawnumber.com/politics/real-time-world-emergency-disaster-map/ Last year with the release of Halo (the ever popular XBox first person shooter) we saw the beginning of a heavy PR campaign to place the blame of decreasing Box Office revenue on video games. You see, the fact that a movie fails to live up to studio estimates no ... http://rawnumber.com/editorial/gta4-tony-stark-kill-a-dumb-idea/ Ever wonder exactly what happened during the historic moon landing? Who walked where, where is the equipment that was abandoned & most of all where is that blasted flag? Now you can see that and more with a top down point of view. Not only does it tell you the location ... http://rawnumber.com/technology/apollo-11-landing-site-map/ There have been many maps, graphs, grids & breakdowns of the housing crash of recent years and the following mad dash to cover losses, limit foreclosures & convert to fixed rate mortgages. This is one that looks at it from the point of view of mortgages that have been renegotiated. Calling ... http://rawnumber.com/business/map-of-us-home-mortgages-that-have-been-renegotiated/ This is based on 2001 data so is in effect woefully out of date but is interesting in it simple visual breakdown of the companies that rule all media. Shuffle as they will with percentages and ownership levels of various companies there is a low chance that the major players ... http://rawnumber.com/business/breakdown-of-big-10-media-companies/ National Geographic has released a US national map of the number of single single men and women. The disparity between the two is seemingly in line with the old saying" Go West! young man, go west". If you are a determinedly single woman and want to be part of a larger ... http://rawnumber.com/politics/us-map-of-male-vs-female-singles/