It turns out, Google has data on enough search terms that something is always quite highly correlated with your curve! This is a crackpot conspiracy theorists dream!
Incredible answer to this question that really makes it clear. If I teach stats, I'm going to use whuber's example.
We lean from homework, not from lectures. Nobody is surprised but it's still useful to see.
Very cool statistics demonstration on OLS. Clearest demonstration I've seen.
Listing of classic R datasets used in various packages
Awesome project created by an undergrad at Brown!