Remember when we all marinated flank steak?

Google Labs has introduced Google Correlate, which lets you explore temporal or geographic correlations between search queries. The temporal correlator lets you draw an arbitrary curve on the timescale, and see what queries match it:

(Click through to see the query)

I do wish it could connect points with a spline, instead of making you draw the whole curve freehand.

Here are some geographic correlations I’ve found:

• I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing an emu on the moon and returning him safely to the farm.
• I love it when a plan comes together!
• I'm Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, pronounced with the “Artman.” From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and the last word out of your filthy sewers will be “Sir.” Do you maggots understand that?

Chart of the day: Sierra Erratica edition

In the annual report of the Caltech Employees’ Federal Credit Union:

They tried to carry over the mountain motif used for the page background, but the shape of the mountain, with its decrease at the end, really wrecks the first impression of the actual trend (bar height).

Chart of the day: Contribution to total ISBN number

Andrew Gelman recommends five books. Dan Goldstein helpfully creates the following visualization of the recommendations.

(For those who are not familiar with ISBN, see my helpful explanation posted to the Pentax-Discuss Mail List.)