This page is about a good online read of topical articles, journals, and text books, and also includes references to useful lists.

For a quick, but very informative and entertaining read check out the  Who's Counting, page on ABC News,  and then for another good read and source of topical ideas is the STATS homepage. STATS is the American Statistical Assessment Service which examines the way that scientific, quantitative, and social research are presented by the media. Speaking of journalists with an American flavour try Robert Niles' Finding Data on the Internet.

For examples of the use of data and statistical technqiques in medicine, and for a good read, there is the British Medical Journal .

Chance News is now a wiki  for which you need to register.  Older issues are archived; these are brilliant, but allow yourself time to get sidetracked.

The Journal of Statistics Education has some interesting articles in its archives.  Read about the 1970 Draft Lottery, do some sampling using  Stat Village, an on-line accessible hypothetical city based on real Canadian data, or for fun try out some applets  e.g. of the Central Limit Theorem.

A New View of Statistics, which is primarily for Sports Scientists. The site on Internet projects for the textbook Introductory Statistics by Weiss, is well worth a visit for ideas, examples and sheer interest.  Other on line textbooks are HyperStat Online, or with an Australian flavour SurfStat.

Robin Lock's site has particularly useful links to a wide variety of data sites, with helpful comments.  Visit it at least once to see what I mean.  Slightly more overwhelming but it's all there, and I mean all there, try Clay Helberg's Statistics on the Web page, which includes a list of statistics courses on the web, the ones that include the teaching materials for you to look at.