Decade Review App from We-Envision.com
As the first decade of the twenty-first century comes to a close, We-Envision.com has created an unusual iPhone app that provides a visual overview of 75 key world events from the last ten years. Bush v. Gore, the September 11th terrorist attacks, the Southeast Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the French student protests of 2006 and Burmese monk protests of 2007, Barack Obama's election, and many others are presented via full-screen photos from news sites, organized by date or subject, and bolstered by Wikipedia-derived details.
> As the first decade of the twenty-first century comes to a close
Really? I thought we still have about 380 days before that!
In any case, cheers for the Holiday season... Mark
I wonder if "decade" has a slightly different meaning in Japan. In the U.S., a decade has ten years, so starting in 2000 (ie., at zero) means you get to ten at the end of 2009.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade
So, that means "the first decade of the twenty-first century" consists of one year in the twentieth century _plus_ nine years of the twenty-first century? Hmm... odd. But maybe that's the convention. Thanks, Adam, for the enlightenment.
Dear Adam,
I have to say that we in the middle of Europe (i.e. Germany) have the same understanding of a decade as people in the far east (or west?), see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahrzehnt . Analogous, at least for Germans, the 20th century started with the beginning of 1901 and completed with the end of 2000. But obviously, there are different ways to count - we just need to know what we're talking about...
All the best to you, Mark & your families!
Cheers, Rainer
That's really interesting. This is one of the reasons I love having translations of TidBITS (Mark is one of our Japanese translators) - you'd never think that different parts of the world would have different ideas about what a decade is otherwise.