World Clock that will creep you out

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World Clock that will creep you out

by Jason Clarke Sep 19th 2007

Have you ever wondered how many diseases there are in the world right at this moment? Wondered to the extent that you would like it broken down into noncommunicable diseases, and infectious diseases? How about how many injuries of the various most common types (traffic accidents, falls, drownings, poisonings, etc) or how many deaths have happened?

The World Clock at Poodwaddle is a little different than your average world clock. This one attempts to estimate a whole bunch of statistics calculated based on recent estimates. You can control the time frame you are looking at - either year to present, or maybe just this hour... it's up to you.

It seems like the kinds of things that have large bodies of statistics available to put together a project like this are all quite morbid. Or maybe it was a conscious decision on the part of the developer to make us think a bit more. In any event, it's kind of creepy.

Tags: statistics, world clock, world-clock, world-statistics, WorldClock

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Shibathedog said 12:59PM on 9-19-2007

creepy, but cool! Isn't there an easy way to make flash files into widgets? It would be interesting to check back at this every once in awhile. (awesome for procrastinating too)

Zack said 7:40PM on 9-19-2007

it's soo perty. i mostly like the top secret way they find out the number of computers manufactured

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