A site
Julia mentioned a bunch of neat sites she found on the Memepool links site. While she mentioned some great ones (Giddens and Foucault action figures? Fantastic!), there was one other one I wanted to mention. Oh, but if you don't like numbers, skip it.
The Secret Lives of Numbers is an interactive site that shows the relative frequency of the occurrences of the numbers 1 through 100,000 as used on the Web. That's right; the site's authors have (presumably in some automated fashion) put every one of these numbers into a search engine (at three different points in the past five years, no less). The results are presented in an interactive visual format that lets you narrow in on numbers that are of interest to you, or else take the wider view of a large section of the number line. I, for one, find it really fascinating to see how round numbers and culturally significant numbers like 90210 (ugh) are used by a broad cross-section of the world's population.
The Secret Lives of Numbers is an interactive site that shows the relative frequency of the occurrences of the numbers 1 through 100,000 as used on the Web. That's right; the site's authors have (presumably in some automated fashion) put every one of these numbers into a search engine (at three different points in the past five years, no less). The results are presented in an interactive visual format that lets you narrow in on numbers that are of interest to you, or else take the wider view of a large section of the number line. I, for one, find it really fascinating to see how round numbers and culturally significant numbers like 90210 (ugh) are used by a broad cross-section of the world's population.