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Couchsurfing (finding a free bed online) is gaining popularity across the world. More than half of the couchsurfing participants are in Europe. This map shows the Top 10 Cities for couchsurfers.

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MDLF has invested in 24 different countries. They concentrate in Eastern Europe, however also operate in Central America, South America, Central Asia, and Africa. Click on the map below to find out about the specific countries and details about the MDLF projects.

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Monthly pages views for the 10 countries that use Wikipedia most.

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http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryOverview.htm

Check our clickable map to see where Michael Pollan is speaking publicly in the near future:

So who knew the Internet has a heart? The Star Wars Kid for one. The pudgy Canadian who inadvertently created an Internet meme by videotaping himself wielding a golf ball retriever as a light sabre earned enough sympathy from Wiki creators that they keep his actual name off his Wiki page. Jonathan Zittrain, an Internet law expert, who likens the unwieldiness of the Internet uses it as one example of a random act of Web kindness.

He notes that hitchhiking has fallen by the wayside, but couchsurfing — sleeping in a strange land on a stranger’s couch — has taken off. ” The map below — courtesy of couchsurfing.org — shows just how popular it is.

I never spend much time in school but I taught ladies plenty. It’s true I hire my body out for pay, hey hey. I’ve gotten burned over Cheryl Tiegs, blown up for Raquel Welch. But when I end up in the hay it’s only hay, hey hey. I might jump an open drawbridge, or Tarzan from a vine. ‘Cause I’m the unknown stuntman that makes Eastwood look so fine.