Here is a rather large map showing the nationalities of the inhabitants of Reykjavik. Each dot represents around 25 people. You can click on it for higher defintion. The…
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Eurovision Song Contest 2012 – Projection for the Final
As promised, I publish my projection for the Eurovision song contest 2012. The model is based on two factors a) Youtube view counts and b) Friendship coefficients, based on the…
Eurovision Song Contest 2012 – Projection for the Second Semi-Final
Last Tuesday PaBaMapa projected the results of the first semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest. We got nine out of ten entries right. The projection for the second semifinal follows here, these…
Eurovision Song Contest 2012 – Projection for the First Semi-Final
We here at Pabamapa.com are proud to present our projection for the 1st semi-final of Eurovision Song Contest 2012. We project that the following 10 countries will make it to…
Who votes like Iceland in the UN General Assembly?
It’s always fun to look the data from the votes of the UN General Assembly. Here we looked at the votes in the years 2000-2008 to see which countries agreed…
Living Wills
For those of you who follow my Icelandic writings í Fréttablaðið, I wrote an article about organ donations last Friday. When it comes down to officially registering your wish with…
The Bomb Case Solved
There was a bomb threat in downtown Reykjavik today, near the main Government Building. The police have released some photos of one suspect. Amazingly they haven’t found the person yet,…
Are Odd Years Bad for Handball Players?
The Handball European Championship 2012 is underway in Serbia. That’s fun. I remember the book SuperFreakonomics having a chapter about birthdays of pro soccer players. They tend to be born…
In the News
The Icelandic TV station “Stöð 2” quotes PaBaMapa’s post on the Iceland v. ESA track record in the EFTA Court. You can find it here: (in Icelandic): http://visir.is/section/MEDIA99&fileid=VTV28956165-0DC8-445B-B564-77B632FA96D0
EFTA Surveillance Authority v. Republic of Iceland
Iceland has been taken to court by the EFTA Surveillance Authority in connection with the long-running IceSave dispute. This is not the first time. In the years since the establishing…