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WordCount.org http://www.wordcount.org/
How many days have you been alive? http://www.beatcanvas.com/daysalive.asp
random letter generator: http://www.davereed.com/Nifty/randSe...
Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows:    / obscuresorrows  

Word frequency resources:
[lemmatized] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_co...
http://www.uow.edu.au/~dlee/corpora.htm
http://www.wordfrequency.info
http://www.anc.org/data/ancsecondre...
http://www.titania.bham.ac.uk/docs/
http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/bncreadm...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktio...
http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/bncfreq/
[PDF] http://www.wordfrequency.info/files/e...
[combined Wikipedia and Gutenberg] http://www.monlp.com/2012/04/16/calcu...
http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/files/100k...
http://corpus.byu.edu/
http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/list.html
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=j...
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/kit/2009s...

Great Zipf's law papers:
http://colala.bcs.rochester.edu/paper...
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~ycharles/s...
http://arxiv.org/pdf/condmat/0412004...
http://wwwpersonal.umich.edu/~mejn/c...

Zipf’s law articles and discussions:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/a...
http://io9.com/themysteriouslawtha...
https://plus.maths.org/content/os/lat...
http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/...
https://plus.maths.org/content/myster...
http://www.datasciencecentral.com/pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27...

other Zipf’s law PDFs
http://ftp.iza.org/dp3928.pdf
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.2965.pdf
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1104.3199.pdf
http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~jim/zipfjrh.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
http://polymer.bu.edu/hes/articles/pg...
in untranslated language: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.2904.pdf
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~xgabaix/p...
http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/pa...
http://statweb.stanford.edu/~owen/cou...
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.0448v3.pdf
http://www.kornai.com/Papers/glotto5.pdf

Zipf’s law slides:
http://www.slideshare.net/guest9fc47a...

Pareto Principle and related ‘laws’:
http://www.squawkpoint.com/2013/03/pa...
http://billyshall.com/blog/post/paret...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_...

Random typing and Zipf:
http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail...
health 80/20: http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/find...

Principle of least effort:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princip...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfi...
http://www.pnas.org/content/100/3/788... [PDF]
http://csiss.org/classics/content/99

self organized criticality:
http://journal.frontiersin.org/articl...

Hapax Legomenon:
http://campus.albion.edu/english/2011...
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/isth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_l...
[PDF] http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/J104003
http://www.wired.com/2012/01/hapaxle...
http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/con...
http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/con...

Learning curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learnin...

Forgetting curve:
http://www.trainingindustry.com/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgett...

Experience curve effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experie...

Forgetting
and zipf's law: http://actr.psy.cmu.edu/wordpress/wp...
http://public.psych.iastate.edu/shaca...
http://marshalljonesjr.com/youllreme...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting
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