Yesterday, I was able to locate a resource to power the CIA World Factbook interface I wanted to provide on the WiredPages Government page.

After reviewing the data-- and noting the amount, I decided the Reference page was a better fit.

Screen shots of the type of information the interface provides:

Still beta testing, so let me know [wiredpages@qisoftware.com] of any problems.

Some of my design and usefulness thoughts.

I like the ability to look things up quickly. I like a single source-- as opposed to a search engine that may give me more than I want to wade through. For instance, I use Fat Secret for nutrition data, FRED for Government economic data, etc. This new CIA World FactBook interface is meant to provide visitors a quick check tool. I do not like scroll bars-- they tend to do different things in different platforms/browsers and I prefer not to use them. For this reason, I have extended the frame in which the new interface [World FactBook] sits-- so at times there will appear to be a lot of whitespace. I plan on adding another interface to the page-- which will make it less noticeable -- however WiredPages is meant to be a credible reference resource using "single source" providers-- and not in competition with the providers of my data nor their sites. See their links-- which I provide, to get "pretty" pages or more information. I am more interested in providing quick credible data.