For those few readers who are really fascinated by the workings of SF fandom, Kevin Standlee has posted a map of the Worldcon membership by country, and by state for the US and prefecture for Japan.
It's interesting not just for the distribution of the actual members, but for the gaps. Africa appears only in a couple of small insets, thanks to a few members in Nigeria, South Africa, and Israel, while only a tiny slice of Aouth America is shown, thanks to a handful of members in Chile. There are no members from anywhere in the former Soviet Union.
I don't know that you can read any Deep Meaning into any of this, but it's sort of interesting just to look at.
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I don't drink lattes myself, but these are pretty cool and fitting for the IYB.
Below the fold is the press release (somewhat shortened). The numbers fell out at about 70-30.
This is another piece in the discussion
Ben Stein cannot grasp what the GOP's problem is with Larry Craig:
What I don't understand is why the GOP is tossing Senator Craig overboard as if he were a terrorist.
Those would be geeks, not nerds.
The only deep meening I can see is that nerds in the former Soviet Union cannot afford to travel abroad.