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Wordle, an addictive new web toy

Posted by: Emily McManus
June 18, 2008 at 7:00 pm EDT
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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:

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ABOVE: Erin McKean redefines the dictionary

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ABOVE: Murray Gell-Mann finds beauty and truth in physics

AT TOP: David Gallo shares underwater astonishments

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