This is cool: you can put in any words (I found it because another blogger wordled her dissertation), and it will make one of these word figure things. OR you can put in the URL for any website with an RSS feed, and it will create one for that text! Words that are used more often are larger, common words (“is” “and” “the”) are ignored, and you can change the font/color scheme. Here’s one for Lawn Chair Anthropology:
Here’s a wordle for Clifford Jolly’s article “The Seed-Eaters: A New Model of Hominid Differentiation Based on a Baboon Analogy”:
Nerd! Just kidding, why are we wordling things?
I got bored, found it on a website, and thought it was cool. Wish I could think of a useful purpose for it.
It’s kind of like the cover to Radiohead’s (2003) Hail to the Thief album.