Distraction

Introducing: Google's newest way of distracting us.

Now you can, for instance, find out that far more people in the Philippines and Ireland googled Pope John Paul II than in the US, but no one really cared much about googling the pope until he died. People in Halifax really like Oprah. And Britney Spears has been on a downhill curve in popularity with only a few spurts when something exciting happens, like babies. Besides that, more people in Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Portugal, and Finland care about Britney than in LA. (Besides that, they wanted the news in Danish, Spanish, and Swedish.)

Think of all the wonderful things you can explore when you should be working...