Worldometers
Hey! Hey! What do you say? How many people starved today?
Hey! Hey! What do you say? How much food did we toss today?
I’ve often thought that the sanest people in the world are the people we lock away and call insane. They may be the only sane ones. The world’s sure gone crazy. Doesn’t it seem like it to you? While people are starving, we toss thousands of tons of food into the garbage. We’ve got about 15,000 days left until the world runs out of oil. Still we’re burning it up like there’s no tomorrow. It’s almost like the world’s being run by Alfred E. Newman — “What? Me worry?”
Worldometers gives you live, instantly updated statistics about many things. It’s quite interesting as well as quite disturbing — unless, you don’t care. If you don’t care, that’s fine. Life’s a journey, a journey to share. I don’t why I care, but I do. It bothers me. It bothers me that the average worker makes $50 a day, while the average Fortune 500 CEO makes over $16,000 a day. Who in the heck is worth $16,000 a day? I can’t even get $6 a day out of EB.
Anyway, this site is just plain amazing to me. Maybe you’ll find it amazing too. Here’s a little sample of some of the least interesting stuff on this site:
Time to bring in the developers of Worldometers to tell you more:
“Worldometers is run by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around the world. We have no political, governmental, or corporate affiliation.
“Worldometers was voted as one of the best free reference websites by the American Library Association (ALA).
“Worldometers was chosen as content provider at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), BBC News, and the National Media Museum (UK), and by U2, among others.
“Worldometers is cited as a source in over 800 published books, in more than 500 professional journal articles, and in over 150 Wikipedia pages. The website is considered a formidable educational tool and it is shown in classrooms around the world.
“Worldometers, within the Real Time Statistics Project, has launched other websites such as Internet Live Stats, 7 Billion World, USA Live Stats, StoptheHunger, and ItaliaOra.
“We pioneered two methods of visualizing data: the Single Unit Isotype and the Live Isotype (details).
“Worldometers is owned by Dadax, an independent company.
“Chief Project Coordinator is Sir Thomasson.
“Managing Director is Peter Collins.
“How it works
“The counters that display the real-time numbers are based on Worldometers’ algorithm that processes the latest and most accurate statistical data available together with its projected progression to compute the estimated current millisecond number to be displayed on each counter based on the specific time set on each visitor’s computer clock. Sources are carefully selected to include only data published by the most reputable organizations and statistical offices in the world. Please refer to the frequently asked questions to learn more about the mechanism…”
If you’re the kind of person who likes to think and ponder the world and it’s craziness and its people, you’ll love our Site of the Week “Worldometers”. Please accept my personal invitation to visit one of the most interesting and thought-provoking sites I’ve ever visited.
Bonus time! If you like Worldometers, you’ll love these two sites as well:
Hey, Thanks for reading. This doesn’t have anything to do with Worldometers. Even though it was interesting. Actually I am writing because I did link to the site to clear the files in Flash history and junk. but when I opened it no matter what I clicked on it was empty. There was nothing for me to delete clear or anything else. I am just wondering if all are like mine.
Thanks so much