Useful Links: January 2012

A list of items I’ve come across recently that I found potentially useful, interesting, or just plain funny:

• TimeRime – Create and view timelines of historical events (via Mark Locke)
• ITU statistics on global ICT usage – A collection of statistics from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) (via Mark Locke)
• Minty Geek – Compact components that slot into a neat little mints tin: making learning electronics and building circuits fun and easy (via Computing)
• DoesFollow – Find out who follows whom on Twitter (great for checking if someone follows you when you have more than a few tens of followers)
• Scale of the universe – Amazing interactive scale of the universe tool (via Jason Perlow and Adi Kingsley-Hughes)
• Vocabulary.com – Learn new words