For people that enjoy the subtle quirks of the Interweb or society at large, take a peek over at Google Trends. It would take an aneurysm these days to be unaware of this superpowered search engine that has effectively eliminated the need for public libraries, like, ever. What’s lesser known is that the site happily publishes the statistics (”trends”) that arise in searches, sorted by year and countries. Curious which country searches for pictures of dead babies? How about the most popular month for people to be googling “suicide”? What wins, good or evil?

For the truly adventurous, consider fabricating elaborate back-stories to explain random, hilarious patterns that you may find. I, for one, wonder why anal fisting became all the rage in the Czech Republic as of exactly January 2006.