Word Clouds Over Reason

Reader Matt Ginivan sends along word of a "Word Cloud" based on Hit & Run content (he learned of the bit from former Reason editor Virginia Postrel's Dynamist blog). Here's a word salad graphic generated automatically and suitable for T-shirts:

And what the hell, here's one based on reason.com:

More here.

Comments

[Phil]

This can't be right -- it doesn't contain the words "French," "Gunnells," "transparency," "die Phil," or any profanity at all!

[VM]

and there's no reference to "assless chaps" or the famous sweaty pillow fight. and what about the pigskin bus???????? 🙂

and phil: it's DER phil. ha ha. i'd suggest to that imaginary friend worshipping twaddlenock that he learn german better, lest he show off his twaddlenockery any further 🙂

ha ha.

cheers,

[Stevo Darkly]

Whoa, cool!

FYI, the page where you can actually build a Word Cloud is here:

http://www.snapshirts.com/custom.php

As a quick experiment, I put in the URL for the "Fruit of Islam" thread and it was kind of interesting.

But I would really like to see how it handles one of threads where Jean Bart/Gary Gunnels/Hakluyt goes at it, or the "Dave W. curses Phil" thread.

[science]

and where is "nanny"

[mitch]

This is actually pretty cool... by finding e-texts I made clouds from a section of Tristram Shandy, Book I of the Aeneid, etc.

[mitch]

So far the best cloud I have developed (the one most representative of what the book is about or it's "feel") is from the part of The Life Of Johnson covering 1763. Very fun.

[zoidburg]

Combine this with Poject Gutenberg and you could, well, um, err...

[Eric the .5b]

Word hurricane, zoidburg? 🙂

[Rick Barton]

Randomly sample us... Dig the fragments of our essence... Statistically observe our reality...

[Rick Barton]

I wanna listen to some cyber-punk music. Anyone have any suggestions?

[Matt L]

I don't see "corn syrup" either.

[kelley]

Try "whitehouse.gov" and Scott McClelland comes out as the hero.

[Rich Ard]

Anyone have any suggestions?

Don't?

[Obi Quiet]

No RPG either. -sigh-

[Douglas Fletcher]

Didn't I see something like this on the cover of a 1959 Esquire?

[Hakluyt]

Nothing about eminent domain? Huh.

[zoidburg]

Exactly, Eric. Couldn't think of the word!