http://www.statistics.gov.uk/

Did you know that there are 390,000 Jedi Knights in the UK? It’s official.

http://icasualties.org/

There is something cold about a site that gives graphs and charts knowing that each point on each graph was someone’s son or daughter. Stalin said ‘A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.’

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/12/06/1102182227308.html?oneclick=true

Sounds like science fiction or a wind up. A brain grown in a petri dish that can fly a jet fighter but apparently it isn’t, it’s real – scary.

http://www.i-cynic.com/

Update: I suspect that this site isn’t updated often if at all

“A Cynic is a spy who aims to discover what things are friendly or hostile to man; after making accurate observations, he then comes back and reports the truth.” Who can argue with that?

http://www.simetric.co.uk/feet_to_metres.php

Useful for those of us who live halfway between Metric and Imperial worlds

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/roadblock.html

Nice game if you like spatial / logic puzzles.

Unfortunately no longer available but there’s still plenty of vintage stuff to keep you amused:

https://gaming.ebaumsworld.com/gaming/

http://www.globalrichlist.com/

Found a site that does the same thing:

https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i

<s>At last I’m in the top 1% for something! </s>

http://open-site.org/

Not a patch on Wikipedia, incomplete or out of date entries on the subjects I am interested in – e.g. China

Update: no surprises it’s no longer online, no wayback machine link because it wasn’t good enough to start with

http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/

Wayback machine link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20051123125736/http://www.johnreilly.info/index.html

Nice section on Eschatology: The science of the Last Things and the writings of John J Reilly. It’s mostly text and well worth reading.

http://www.fulltable.com/

Lovely collection of images collected over 30 years.

From the site: “The Visual Telling of Stories. You can go to the main gate or shuffle about in the Samplers till you get some hang of the place. It was started in 1996. Material is added every day. It is far bigger than you could ever imagine.`”