GIS -dialect survey! -surname map!

the dialect survey.
look at maps & results (index).
such cool display of information.
and it is my kind of information: what people say = phenomena. Aristl.
originally found this by google looking for ? milk melk - no. saw sall - no. well- it was a great discovery.

Search your surname in the USA: http://www.gens-us.net/
Also search in Italy. cool.

Letter-pairs analysis application. Information visualization / Processing
For each new given pair of letters found in the text, the program generates a new bubble. The surface (size) of each bubble is proportional to the number of times it appears in the text. ok. At the same time, each bubble defends its space moving its neighbors. ah, I like that. why? finite total space, inforce (inverse) proportional relations.

huh. Why QWERTY was invented The first typewriter had its letters on the end of rods called "typebars." The typebars hung in a circle. The roller which held the paper sat over this circle, and when a key was pressed, a typebar would swing up to hit the paper from underneath. If two typebars were near each other in the circle, they would tend to clash into each other when typed in succession. So, Sholes figured he had to take the most common letter pairs such as "TH" and make sure their typebars hung at safe distances. He did this using a study of letter-pair frequency prepared by educator Amos Densmore, brother of James Densmore, who was Sholes' chief financial backer. The QWERTY keyboard itself was determined by the existing mechanical linkages of the typebars inside the machine to the keys on the outside. Sholes' solution did not eliminate the problem completely, but it was greatly reduced. Click here for the full story...

later on sansshrimp: dynamic ah moving picture of alphabet evolution (gif).