Wordle
 

At wordle you can create a word cloud. What's a word cloud? The graphic below is an example. I took the text of the Declaration of Independence and pasted into wordle. It created the graphic.

There doesn't seem to be a good way to save the image. I just took a screen shot and clipped it.

This one uses the Cellar rules as the source and a different layout.

Those are very cool. Thanks for the link.

Really nice. I created one by mixing the Constitution and Declaration. There are a lot of features to vary font, remove common words (and, the), alter placement, etc.

That is awesome. I have a great idea for that. (secret)

Gratis tibi for the link. I used it to make a birthday card for a musician friend by taking the lyrics to one of his CDs and making a wordle card for him. It came out much better than if I had tried to do it.

The first and last paragraphs of the Raven:

Couldn't figure out how the hell to post the pic, but here is a link to mine. It is of the opening scene from The Godfather...my favorite movie.

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/4...odfather_scene

I love this.

Jabberwocky:

How about making a game of it?

Can you guess/find out the title and author of the poem?

Great idea. Song lyrics and artists would work too!

No idea what yours is.

@Scrivyn -- I was able to find it by searching on "poem celia bark groves". I won't give the answer here in case some of our more literate dwellars can come up with it off the top of their heads.

@Shawnee -- the Jabberwocky was a great idea. I've saved it.

Scri/dar: Is it like a Wordsworth or Keats or the like?

Thanks Dar...I thought the interesting words would look neat. Would make a great poster!

It is British and obviously a few centuries old, but a little known poet. His first name is Thomas - "Celia" is a dead giveaway :D

Much earlier than the romantic poets. I was not familiar with him. I stole Dar's google string to find it. :rolleyes:

A post from the politics forum.

I think I liked the Jabberwocky better.

OK, It was meant as a way to show that words that we think are very common here are not actually all that common.

Here's a fun one.

Guess song/artist (easy)

I'm loving these! Hallmark won't, because I will never buy another card from them again. HP will, because I will be buying a lot of color ink for the printer. :)

If you put a tilda ~ between words, the program will keep those words together as a phrase. So I~love~you can stay together instead of dropping the "I" and the "you."

Simon and Garfunkle - Sounds of Silence

Absolutely! Woohooo! :)

Or, mental~midget? lol

Didn't know that trick. You can do some really neat things with this...

Save it to a gallery and post the link here. “3/4 Time Signature” by Flint from The Cellar.

Guess the lyric.

#1 Difficulty: 3/10
http://cellar.org/2009/wordle3.gif

#2: Difficulty: 5/10
http://cellar.org/2009/wordle2.gif

#3: Difficulty: 10/10
http://cellar.org/2009/wordle1.gif

#1 is Beatles Revolution, which is interesting because I couldn't find the word "revolution" in there at first to confirm my suspicion.

#2 is that BananaRama song (I think that was their name.) "I'm your Venus. I'm your fire."

Second one's "I'm Your Venus" by Shocking Blue. I know Bananarama did a cover, but it was not worthy.

correct correct

Good point Flint. I had forgotten about that because the first couple I did, I made from personal texts -- and didn't want it published.

And the first is the Beatles Revolution.

I don't know #3, but it reminds me of this song. Can you guess it? Difficulty 1/10

Um. Is it "shout"?

I thought #3 might be "she loves you" from the size of the 'yeah' - size indicating the number of word uses. But that's not it.

ooh glatt snuck in there while I was checking my work.

Yes!

I know #3 now, but I cheated. If you click on the link, you are cheating too.

Tiny hint: where he goes "Yeah yeah yeah yeah ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-yeah!" I wrote that as 11 yeahs for wordle.

Neato how you can make the image convey the song style.

I made one you guys can give your wimminz for VD. You're welcome.

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/438770/Annabelle_lEE


I CANT FIGURE OUT HOW TO POST THE PIC EITEHR BUT HERE IS MY LINKY

Every one of these opens blank, for me. :(

So here is an easy one.

Pussy - ring - nose - married.

Hmmmm, where does that lead?

These are so cool. I like the idea of making greeting cards out of them. Good job all.

I love this. Posting a couple of guess-the-lyrics Wordles here.
I love how the 2nd one came up as "dance, think, CHOOSE"

Thick as a Brick?

Free Will

finally got the stupid thing to work....

I *love* Thick as a Brick.

Yes. What gave it away? Biggles? Cornwall?

Yes. It deleted "will" as a common English word. What gave it away? Lotus-land?
By the way, none of the dudes in Vancouver I used to talk to at my old job had ever heard of it being called that.

Of course. Because you have ears, and you've heard it. I have a copy (bought it from my wife, who worked at a music shop when I met her) with both sides, a live version, and interviews talking about the making of. Apparently they would work all day on one of these odd-ball sections, get it down on tape, and then move on to the next bit of madness.

Actually it was "preordained" that gave it away. It was fun - at first look I figured I didn't know it. Then I thought maybe if I concentrated on "choose" I could get somewhere. Since it's so big, like "yeah" in Devo's "Uncontrollable Urge". When "choose" didn't get me anywhere, I started concentrating on the more interesting words, and that's when it sunk in.

Great fun, thanks!
Here's one I made earlier.

Why in hell can't I see any of the linked images? :mad:

Well, I see that... thank you.

Do you have java turned off? It's a java applet.

Thanks dar. No it wasn't turned off, but apparently corrupted, I had to uninstall and replace it with the latest version.
Works now... damn infernal spawn of the devil stupid electronical contraptions...