While AMDwould love to have some heavyweights visibly on its side--as Netscape had Sun and Apple during the Microsoft antitrust trial--it may have to settle for finding a pattern of documentary evidence while digging through the hard drives of an estimated 800 people at 37 companies, plus whatever Intel coughs up.

FORBES: Chips and Guacamole

With the Fox News search following the AP subpoenas, we now have evidence of a pattern of anti-media behavior.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: A Journalist 'Co-Conspirator'

Importantly, Judge Wright ruled that evidence of any pattern or practice of comparable conduct by the president was not important to the case.

CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement

Anecdotal evidence suggests that this pattern has endured, with the notable change that big firms are now outperforming the rest and in turn attracting a disproportionate slice of new money.

ECONOMIST: Private equity

There is some evidence that the usual pattern of these loans is they find their way to the central government and the debts get rolled over by the local municipal banking system.

FORBES: How Scary Is China's Shadow Banking System?

The office of the US Air Force Inspector General, while confirming the overall pattern of complaints, found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing and concluded that the mortuary officials named had not personally broken rules or regulations.

BBC: Dover Air Force Base 'lost US troop remains'

Scientists have turned up evidence that spines contain "pattern generation" circuits with an innate capability to generate walking motions with modest input from the brain.

FORBES: Magazine Article

"Yesterday, I personally reviewed the video evidence, which shows a chronic and pervasive pattern of disturbing behavior, " Barchi said in a statement.

WSJ: Rutgers fires basketball coach over abuse, taunts

If it can be determined that Fuhrman has a pattern of fabricating probable cause, and if the defense can show there is evidence he made have done so in this case, the defense could seek to have all the evidence found by Fuhrman thrown out of the case.

CNN: AUGUST 28

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.

NPR: Karen Armstrong: Myths and the Modern World

That evidence does not have to meet any kind of scientific test: pretty much any pattern of ink on paper will do the job.

CNN: Herbal remedies need real scrutiny