Slightly Politically-Tinged Post Announcing an Interesting Site to Play At, and a Couple of Country Joe and the Fish videos
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Artist:
Okay, so someone on another site (the Pibgorn comment list, if it matters...) mentioned an interesting site where you can make graphics out of your words...
Basically, the site, Wordle.net, takes a block of text you paste in (or a blog or news site's RSS feed, for that matter) , and makes a semi-abstract pattern out of the words of the article. The size of the words indicates their relative frequency, and there are several factors of the generation process you can control, but the final pattern still has a strong element of rendomness about it.
For instance, here's one i made out of two posts from the HuffingtonPost.com political commentary site:
To see it fullsized, click here.
And here's one i made from my own earlier MOG post about McCain being stung by the DMCA:
Warning - since this is the full Woodstock version, probably NSFW:
Locating MOG account...
Comments (1)
the ny times has that kind of thing going on over here as they are asking people to enter a word to describe how they're feeling on election day.