DVD Region Codes vs. Blu-Ray Region Codes
This is the DVD region map (according to Wikipedia).

And here’s the Blu-Ray region one, a few years later.

Is there some hidden geopolitical significance in this? Did South America fall to NATCOMSAT or some such Orwellian mapping of the world that we just aren’t aloud to know about? The first map looks like a middle-stage game of Risk, and the second one moving towards end-game…
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September 9th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
[…] Computers to me are nothing but a symbol of the imagination writ large upon the plane of public consciousness. A computer becomes a (not the) positive image of what a human being or group of human beings could do. Computer and software become great levelers in a world governed by media and technology. […]