Ranking @ MindSay 
I know. I know. Iceland is green and Greenland is icy. But if you want to live in the number one most habitable nation in the world, you’ll have to move to Iceland, according to the U.N. Human Development Index.
“The U.N. Human Development Index used 2005 figures for life expectancy, educational levels and real per capita income to rank 175 nations of the world — plus Hong Kong and the Palestinian territories — for habitability. Rich, free-market economies dominated the top spots with Australia, Canada and Ireland rounding out the top five.”
Here’s the link for the article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313227,00.html
And here are the rankings. Laurie and I have lived in numbers 23, 81 and 145. We’re in number 12 now!
- Iceland
- Norway
- Australia
- Canada
- Ireland
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Japan
- Netherlands
- France
- Finland
- United States
- Spain
- Denmark
- Austria
- United Kingdom
- Belgium
- Luxembourg
- New Zealand
- Italy
- Hong Kong, China (SAR)
- Germany
- Israel
- Greece
- Singapore
- Korea (Rep. of)
- Slovenia
- Cyprus
- Portugal
- Brunei Darussalam
- Barbados
- Czech Republic
- Kuwait
- Malta
- Qatar
- Hungary
- Poland
- Argentina
- United Arab Emirates
- Chile
- Bahrain
- Slovakia
- Lithuania
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Uruguay
- Croatia
- Costa Rica
- Bahamas
- Seychelles
- Cuba
- Mexico
- Bulgaria
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Tonga
- Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Oman
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Romania
- Saudi Arabia
- Panama
- Malaysia
- Belarus
- Mauritius
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Russian Federation
- Albania
- Macedonia, TFYR
- Brazil
- Dominica
- Saint Lucia
- Kazakhstan
- Venezuela, RB
- Colombia
- Ukraine
- Samoa (Western)
- Thailand
- Dominican Republic
- Belize
- China
- Grenada
- Armenia
- Turkey
- Suriname
- Jordan
- Peru
- Lebanon
- Ecuador
- Philippines
- Tunisia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Fiji
- Iran, Islamic Rep. of
- Paraguay
- Georgia
- Guyana
- Azerbaijan
- Sri Lanka
- Maldives
- Jamaica
- Cape Verde
- El Salvador
- Algeria
- Viet Nam
- Occupied Palestinian Territories
- Indonesia
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Turkmenistan
- Nicaragua
- Moldova
- Egypt
- Uzbekistan
- Mongolia
- Honduras
- Kyrgyzstan
- Bolivia
- Guatemala
- Gabon
- Vanuatu
- South Africa
- Tajikistan
- São Tomé and Principe
- Botswana
- Namibia
- Morocco
- Equatorial Guinea
- India
- Solomon Islands
- Lao People's Dem. Rep.
- Cambodia
- Myanmar
- Bhutan
- Comoros
- Ghana
- Pakistan
- Mauritania
- Lesotho
- Congo
- Bangladesh
- Swaziland
- Nepal
- Madagascar
- Cameroon
- Papua New Guinea
- Haiti
- Sudan
- Kenya
- Djibouti
- Timor-Leste
- Zimbabwe
- Togo
- Yemen
- Uganda
- Gambia
- Senegal
- Eritrea
- Nigeria
- Tanzania (U. Rep. of)
- Guinea
- Rwanda
- Angola
- Benin
- Malawi
- Zambia
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Burundi
- Congo (Dem. Rep. of the)
- Ethiopia
- Chad
- Central African Republic
- Mali
- Niger
- Guinea-Bissau
- Burkina Faso
- Sierra Leone
This is the link for the list:
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/
For a more educated and elevated view on the nature of blog-ranking this is a must read. Many of the points made by this man were new to me, but not surprising in the overall scheme of things... things being business and money.
Pablo
In a completely unrelated topic, I just noticed that the Mindsay people have implemented tagging to blog posts--I'm very impressed. Tagging is becoming very popular, and is used by sites such as flickr.com and 43things.com. Basically, taggings is when you assign keywords to an object, such as a picture, or a blog entry, and those tags help other people find posts to a similar topic. For example, lets say I was going to do a sermon on loneliness. With tagging, I could do a search for blog entries tagged with loneliness, and find out what people are saying about it.