Website Of The Week (6)

One of the defining characteristics of a human being is their innate nosiness, always keen to know what other people are doing. Totalitarian governments thrive on it. WhaTheHellArePplDoing is a website that panders to this need, albeit with a global perspective.

Providing what it calls “live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics & simulated day/night cycles”, as well as providing a rolling total of the global population figure with a calculated birth rate and death rate per second, it then provides an estimate of the number of people engaged in various broadbrush activities. These include sleeping, family care, paid work, leisure, education, nutrition and being intimate. It even tells you how many people are frittering their time by clicking on to their website.

Who thought the world needed this?