mostly research stuff
remember how great anybirthday.com was back in the day? …really useful for unearthing information on people’s b-days with users flocking to it from all over (including the nosy folks trying to just figure out if friends are lying about their ages)…but then it went away, like a lotta dotcom services (boo hoo)…but not to worry, there’s a strong replacement from the folks at bored.com (oh, and that bored site is really boring btw, so don’t even bother clicking on through)…
what they’ve pulled together is another database of circa 120 million birth records that they claim comes from the ‘official government‘ (as in, “hi, we’re building a big website mister federal employee, would you mind just zipping that file of birth records and emailing over? thanks!“)…it’s called the birth database …and don’t be fooled by how much the look and feel of the site completely sucks ass, because the database works well (look me up - david carpe, pearl harbor day)..
…but you know, there’s sorta a problem (there’s always a problem as far as i’m concerned, doesn’t matter what i’m looking at)…the site’s search capabilities kind of suck - it’s just last and first name and a box for ‘approximate age’ - but alas, a problem solver named stephen morse came up with a solution….stephen has put together his own wonderful collection of genealogical research resources - along with a custom interface to the birthdatabase website that makes searching much cleaner…
why’s it bettah? because his search lets you add in other variables like city, state or zip code and a much cleaner range for ‘approximate age’ which you control by entering earliest or latest possible date - topped only by the ability to limit results and totals or begin returns from a certain page of results…very clever, very useful…but you know what’s really cool? steve’s main site - it’s loaded to the damned brim with useful stuff (like this killer one-stop zip code search tool, or this wickedly nerdy ‘one step search tool‘ creation engine)… enjoy, ’cause i am…found out my mom’s friend completely lied about her age, very exciting stuff!
this blog is mostly safe for work, though i sometimes throw around a 'fuck' or two. you'll find a bunch of my articles from CI Magazine, SCIP online, other research pieces and some other crap. enjoy. there's lost of content here related to getting information about, around, from and through people and organizations...
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