I feel terribly guilty in advance. If you check out this website (found via the New York Times Paper Cuts blog) I doubt you will get much work done today.
Wordle generates word clouds from the text you feed in, and then you can play around with colours and fonts and so on.
This is what happened when I fed it a couple of short short stories I'd written. (Click to enlarge and admire fully.) :
You can try it with a whole book. This is Moby Dick :
If you make an extra nice one, please link it in the comments!
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And this is my article on Kasit Biru Rubina which will be published today.
Thanks for the link to the wordle:). I filled in some text, and it somehow became a blog post here
wonder if i should do it with my extremely technical phd thesis and get something pretty out of that junk for a change.
Fun! This is Robert Pinsky's "City Elegies"
gosh the uses are endless. this is a work of art i call statutory declaration no 1
listmania! what fun!
Enjoy these ones!
i just fed wordle one of my short stories. this is potentially addictive :D
Aiyo - die la!
I have pasted loads of my health articles - hahahahhaha...
But this one is a story I am working on http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/60416/Parallel_universes
my thesis!
http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/60894/HIV-AIDS
k - that's impressive.
love all these. keep em coming!
http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/62201/Little_Birds
kinda like this
Cool link! Will try it and post it on my blog.
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