Counting Words. What's the most popular word in the English langauge? A flash project.

Who's doing it most? And what in particular? Updated sex stats from Nationmaster, 'where stats come alive'

Curious George: The Kettle. Do you give? The Salvation Army has begun its annual Christmas kettle fundraising drive across the US. Some gay-rights advocates protest the organization for their refusal to grant benefits to same-sex partners. (Others, with presumably less political motivations, have more direct methods.) more inside

We all need some compensation

Top 1000 OCLC Research has compiled a list of the top 1000 titles owned by member libraries -- the intellectual works that have been judged to be worth owning by the

The Fridge (via here, and previously mentioned here) is an on-line version of Magnetic Letters (without the collaborative interference). What I like about it is the ability to import text from a webpage to create your own word set. Here's what I did with the MonkeyFilter 'Recent Comments' sidebar.

Glencannon A wee smattering of Guy Gilpatric

Curious George's Mom: Do any monkeys have experience with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, also known as CLL? Just found out my mom has it. She's asymptomatic now, it was detected early in a routine blood test. So we're optimistic.

A little alpha male, in-your-face, shamelessly good, toxic marketing. Check this site out. The Flash application is hypnotic, the animation wonderful, and the colors? I want to eat them. Wonder if I can hire these guys to animate my Uncle Leon--he's been dead for years. more inside