BBC Dimensions: How Many Really?
A nice project from BERG that aligns numbers from your own world (like the number of people you follow on Twitter) to numbers in the larger world.
Tags: numbers
Typotheque: Gore’s choice
Changing a numeral in a typeface ...at Al Gore's request.
Erik Spiekermann | design mind
Erik Spiekermann expounding on the beauty – and the difficulty – of designing numbers.
Fun (and Fraud Detection) with Benford’s Law | Data and the Web
Benford's law blows my mind. Be sure to watch the video. This is all related to network theory and power law distributions ...I'm just not sure how.
'Cool Cash' card confusion - News - Manchester Evening News
A seasonal twist on the lottery card is withdrawn because people don't understand how negative numbers work. "I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher – not lower – than -8 but I'm not having it."
YouTube - 100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers
Here's an antidote to all those "100 best movie" countdowns that infest Saturday night television. Here's 100 movies with 100 numbers.
BBC - Radio 4 - 5 Numbers
Simon Singh talks about zero, pi, the golden ratio, the square root of minus one, and infinity.
Spell with flickr
Spell with flick grabs images from flickr (the One letter and One Number groups) and uses them to spell what you've typed in.