Emotionr
Emotionr purports to measure the subjective happiness of the world by aggregating every user’s 1 to 10 rating (with a nifty Web 2.0 slider, no less).
I found this rather interesting (and confirmation of what I expected):
A particularly striking quote from Axel Boldt, in his “A subjective comparison of Germany and the United States”:
If I had to boil it down to a word or two, I’d say naive optimism characterizes the American mentality and deliberate, hesitant pessimism the German one.
And a quote from Slartibartfast of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
I’d far rather be happy that right any day.
Some food for thought.
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It’s a Flash slider – very Web 1.0
United Arab Emirates – 1.0. Poor them.
Oooh, didn’t notice it was flash. Well, I for one will never again visit it just because of that!
I won’t visit it again because it implies non-US countries have feelings too.