Teh Internets All This Useless “Beauty”
posted by on June 19 at 13:03 PM
Wordle, which is the current free web application being tossed around the internet at the moment, bills itself as creating “Beautiful Word Clouds.” You cut and paste words into a box, press a button, and it makes a word cloud out of the text you inserted. I’m not sure if I think of word clouds as ‘beautiful,’ exactly, but I’ve certainly wasted some time with Wordle since I came across it last night.
And so have lots of people. Here’s Wordle’s gallery.
And here’s a cloud that I made by dumping all of The Merchant of Venice into Wordle:
And now I am done with Wordle.
It would be much cooler if you could have it do a particular shape for you.
Almost as beauty full as CliffsNotes.
My typographer's soul just died a little.
Um...what's the point of this thing, exactly?
@3 yes, it does hurt
Totally, totally unsatisfying.
Might have turned out better had all the proper nouns and boring words like 'thou' and 'thy' been taken out.
Wow.
Now I know why the terrorists hate us so.
Flower Garden is more satisfying waste of time.
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>Because it's ridiculous
@7, I agree.
Whoa, Arduous, I didn't know you could that, with the comment-linking.
Fnarf, that wasn't me. I think it must have been Anthony trying out something new and cool.
I was kind of into it for a minute until I typed in a haiku and then realized it's just fridge magnet poetry in a web browser.
...I wasted about 2 hours on this last night. It's more satisfying when you put in personal things instead of song lyrics or text you find online. A break-up email I received a few months ago looked particularly poignant when words like "hate" and "apologize" and "fucked" are huge, with the smaller "regret" and "feel" and "guilt" strewn around them.
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