Our cause is just, our union is perfect.

John Dickinson

The original Doomsday Clock was created by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947, to mark the nuclear danger. The premise is simple, at midnight the dreaded occurs. Various incarnations of this idea, are present on the web to various ends, from Civl Rights to Environment. Most of these, are interactive, allowing the user to vote on how they think the clock should be set.

There are several doomsday clock sites on the web, and many of them are interlinked; to pay homage to their lineage. The natural extension of this would be to "join forces" with each other and found a webring. This way, people can find related sites more readily, without getting garbage returns from search engines like "Papa Smurf's House of Doom" or the like, hence the Clocks.

There are also non-doomsday clocks out there. Debt clocks, anti-monopoly clocks, population clocks, ad infinitum. Their purpose, like those of the doomsday clocks, is to support and inform the public of a, hopefully, worthy cause. But not all "cause" sites have clocks, thusly Causes.

Being part of the ring simply requires:

• a site with relevant content such as
  • clocks (doomsday, debt, ...)
    a copy of the Digital Doomsday Clock on your page does not count
  • causes (browser independence, anti-trust...)
  • information (stastics, articles...)
• the addition; usually to the bottom; of a fragment of html to the appropriate page. The snippet is simply styled, so as not to clash with members' pages. The resulting bar of links allows users to move along the ring easily.

Qualms? Questions? Comments? Please e-mail me.