This enjoyable and informative article has no obvious connections to language, but the link to it at A.L.D. is entitled "Don't botox the universe", which at least provides a good example of a clearly denominal verb, as well as a clue about the world that the A.L.D. headline writer lives in :-).
A few years ago, when I was researching Zipf's Law and similar power-law phenomena for a lecture, I stumbled over the wonderful Chicago crumpling group's web site, where you can find things like the Universal Power Law in the Noise from a Crumpled Elastic Sheet. Music of the (crumpled mylar) spheres...
Posted by Mark Liberman at November 15, 2003 06:02 AM