Watching the world in a new way

I have happened across two unusual ways to follow the world around you:

Ten by Ten


This is a really cool site that tracks the 100 most important words and images of the hour and puts them all in one handy little package. The website has an explanation of how this all works.

Another site in a similar vein is: Word Count
This site lists over 85,000 English words in order of most common to least common. Simply to satisfy curiosity here are some words and their ranking:
God 376
Jesus 1845
Spirit 1591
Internet 30525
Computer 705
David 619


These are just some more ways of becoming more familiar with the world into which we are called.