I can hear the fingers typing as one.

One of the best things about years coming to a close -- the Google Zietgeist.

The most interesting, unmentioned, thing is that people seem to hit Google much more during the week (at work, presumably) to look up things like "London" and "Britney Spears" than during the weekend...as you can see by the 52 little valleys in most of the graphs.

I'm back...

...because I really need something to keep from doing actual work during the day.





This is last year's Rock Center tree. You can totally tell, right?