] John Walker recently helped me run a little computer
] experiment with me to quantify the word linkiness
] distribution. Rather than wrestling with the vague notion
] of which words suggest which other words, we took an
] electronic dictionary file and decreed that any two words
] are linked if either of the words appears in the
] dictionary definition of the other word.

Rudy Rucker has been doing the sidebar on Boing Boing. The most recent post was kind of interesting.