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18 June 2008
Wordle, an addictive new web toy
Jonathan Feinberg, a sometime collaborator of artist Golan Levin (watch Levin's TEDTalk), has given the world an addictive new web toy. Wordle turns any block of text into a word cloud -- like a tag cloud but prettier. It's hard to stop using it once you start. TEDTalks transcripts produce these handsome results:
ABOVE: Erin McKean redefines the dictionary
ABOVE: Murray Gell-Mann finds beauty and truth in physics
AT TOP: David Gallo shares underwater astonishments
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