The Clocks Are Ticking

Online clocks... an interesting bit of trivia to know about.

The official National Institute of Standards clock is a good place to start.

The Polar Clock begs the question, "why?" While the Human Clock appears to beg it even more...

The National Debt Clock has to be manually refreshed if you want to see it change, since live updating would probably use up all available bandwidth on the web.

Here's the World Population Clock.

The Cost of War in Iraq clock is so versatile that you can even break down the running cost of the war to each state, and then further into each town in that state. When I checked just now, it looked like the cost of the war in Iraq for Worcester will hit 241 million dollars sometime before tomorrow morning. It makes the City's budget deficit look puny in comparison, doesn't it?

Another Cost of War in Iraq clock appears to be about forty billion dollars behind the first one, revealing the "truthiness" of online anything.

Then there's the War On Drugs clock, which I find interesting because it says that about 1-1/2 million people are arrested for drug offenses every year, but less than one percent of those arrested go to jail. Fifty billion dollars a year is spent on the "War on Drugs" which works out to it costing about 45 million dollars to put each one of those one percenters in jail.

If you want to know the statistical probability of when you'll die, The Death Clock will tell you.

Here's a Digital Doomsday Clock, a digital indicator of the threat to cyber-rights.

And here's the latest update on the Doomsday Clock:


What has any of this to do with Wormtown or Worcester? Well, I think it's time that somebody established a "CitySquare clock" to count the seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years that have passed since the project was supposed to have started. But then I realized that WoMag keeps us updated on a regular basis.

But we still need a clock, and now after all these years of wondering when an appropriate statement could be made with this image ... I believe I've found it.