Google Zeitgeist

This is a really cool way to look at the world : the Google Zeitgeist.

http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

This is a compilation of some of the top searches for a month, and it's amazing what those search terms will tell you about what was in our collective conscious during a certain month.

For example, in April of 2007 (the current year) 'Kurt Vonnegut' was a top search term. A quick Wikipedia search confirmed the worst : one of my literary influences is dead. Kurt, obviously I'm not the only one who loved you and cared enough to at least Google your image upon news of your death.

To the reader, I apologize for the creepy, morbid literary apostrophe!