Bird’s Eye: No time for stories? Maybe you have time for just a word? A collection of amusing word-based divertisements for the break.
* Google Labs – Books Ngram Viewer
From the Googlemeisters themselves this wonderful app allows you to enter a word (or two, or three) and shows the graph of its frequency in books over the past hundreds of years. Watch words rise, fall, or spike in popularity. Surprisingly addictive.
* π=pie
Just look. You won’t believe this. And you will never forget it, either.
* The Top Ten Buzzwords for Resumes via J-Walk
Go on, guess first! (Hint: Think shallow)
* This Novel, No Verbs Wikipedia
Le Train de Nulle Part (The Train from Nowhere) is a 233-page French novel, written in 2004 by a French doctor of letters, Michel Dansel, under the pen name Michel Thaler. Notable as an example of constrained writing, the entire novel is written without a single verb.
Sample: Fool’s luck! A vacant seat, almost, in that compartment. A provisional stop, why not? So, my new address in this train from nowhere: car 12, 3rd compartment, from the front. Once again, why not?
