Underserved Demographics in the "Stuff X People Like" Universe

1. Colors. Most browsers can display 16 million colors. Let's get specific. During the winter, I want to read "Stuff F8F8FF [Ghost White] People Like" and in the summer, if I ever get out of the office, I want to read "Stuff FFA07A [Light Salmon] People Like."

2. Countries. Can we really lump all of Africa under Morocco (or "Dark" as some idiot late-comer decided would be appropriate below)? Sometimes I am just really curious about what Eritreans might like that Zambians wouldn't, you know? With 195 countries minus the 4 or 5 represented below, we can do a lot of work folks.

3. Religion. I only see one religious site below. A shame. According to the premier expert on world religions at Southeast Community College in Lincoln, NE there are at least 3 religions--Jews, Christians, and Pagans--and maybe as many as 4,200. What stuff do Mozabites like? I really had to dig to find that they like underground irrigation canals and cube houses.

4. Sexual Orientation. The Kinsey Scale puts out (ha! too easy. oh, again!) 8 categories of orientation.
5. Occupations. 800 from the BLS.
6. Schools. 660,000,000 or at least that many .edu google results.
7. Psychological Disorders. 297 according to Wikipedia.

Of course, these categories are multiplicative. According to my back-of-the envelope calculations, if we bring approximately these 1.3*10^28 blogs online, we will have the granularity to see what stuff mocha chocolate (A49670) Eritrean Mozabitic Kinsey-Scale-4 Oxford-educated multi-media artists with turrets, in fact, like.

The New Republic on why these are so, so (so) bad.

The universe so far, presented without further sneering, disparaging comment.

Stuff White People Like
Stuff White Trash People Like
Stuff Liberal White People Like
Stuff Yellow People Like
Stuff Brown People Like
Stuff Educated Latinos Like
 Stuff Black People Like
Stuff Black People Like Also
Stuff Educated Black People Like
Stuff Black People Love
Other Stuff Black People Like
Stuff Professional Black People Like
Stuff Orange and Blue People Like
Stuff Iranians Like
Stuff Asian People Like
Stuff Indians Like
Stuff Bahrainis Like
Stuff Moroccan People Like
Stuff Japanese People Like
Stuff Canadian People Like
Here was the motherload. I stole blatantly.
5/15/2008     ,

7 comments:

  1. Feed5/15/2008

    looking forward to Stuff People-Like Stuffed People Like

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  2. Feed5/15/2008

    also, can anyone tell me where on earth that that silent 'o' came from? 'People' is strange

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  3. Jason5/15/2008

    Also in "Phoenix." What is up with that?

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  4. hanner5/16/2008

    Ok, look, I'm sorry that I posted about it one time. Are you just mad you didn't think up one of those blogs first?

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  5. Kaahl5/16/2008

    @ feed: people from populus, so i guess the 'o' was around before the 'e'

    @ jason: from old eng fenix, latin phenix, related to Phoenicia. So no answer.

    @ hanner: I don't remember that post. Also, no, you don't appear to get the post--I don't like those blogs.

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  6. Eliza5/17/2008

    Apparently Karl doesn't get Hannah's comment. She is blaming your anti-ness on jealousy, silly.

    How about stuff Mormonz like? There is one of those--I've seen it. Don't know the URL though. It is in actuality Stuff Young Mormon Moms in Utah Like. Similar to how White People is really Yuppies.

    I like the first couple of comments on the NR post. At least, the ones that were there when I read it. At any rate they were blasting TNR for being exactly what they were blasting.

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  7. Claire5/21/2008

    Personally my favorite is Stuff Nobody Likes because what better way to bring people together than through our universal hatred of bedbugs, Hitler, dysentery, etc.?

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