Resistors with ends of the same colour

I asked a similar question a long time ago here but the resistor chart which was mentioned there appears to have moved. So from its new home at itll.colorado.edu here's the diagram, as far as I can tell one band will be thicker signifying it as the tolerance band (no-one responded when I queried whether this was the case in the previous post above so if I'm wrong please let me know).

The starting point should be the band that is closest to one of the ends. The tolerance band is usually at the other end, on its own.

If the start and end bands are ambiguous, you can usually work out which is probably the right way to read them by seeing which way round gives you a valid E24/E48/E96 etc. value.

..and there's always 'use a multimeter' to fall back on when you're still not sure.