Wordle

Poststructural Pub
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Have you seen these?

http://www.wordle.net/create

You enter some text and it will create a word cloud for you. Words that occur more frequently in your text appear larger, and less frequent words are smaller. You can tweak the number of words you want in the composition, and choose the color, the font and the arrangement (horizontal, vertical, random, a mix). Lotsa fun!

This one is based on a St. Patrick’s day thread over in the piper’s forum. I went to the first page of the thread, cut and pasted the text into one big block, and entered it into the Wordle engine.:blush:I know, I need to get a life :blush:
Didn’t it turn out great? :smiley:

“enough Insanity events”
“madness band”

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This one is taken from some of the recent thread titles in the Pub.
If the thread had a lot of pages I copied the name a lot of times.

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As you can see, our dear Berti and Devondancer are there, in large print because of how fond we are of them.

But what’s this about “worst bare-breasted pseudo Irish song” ?! :boggle: :laughing:

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quick! Which one doesn’t belong?

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The left one! No! The right one! Am I doing this wrong?

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Hey, I’ve seen that! The singer for one of the projects I’m in was playing around with that very Wordle thingum as a possibility for fliers ‘n’ stuff. Yeah, we had some juxtapositions that turned out semiotically less than desirable, too. Gotta consider the elements that can be inserted into the jumble if you’re not just playing around.

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How awful-- if after having just performed the Worst Bare-Breasted Pseudo-Irish song-- one were told that one’s juxtapositions were semiotically less than desirable! :stuck_out_tongue:

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You mean, like, one above the other? :astonished: - back to front? :astonished:

djm

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Now THERE’S a euphemism on wheels. Nyuk.

Yeah, for some reason we also had words like “failed” and “depressing” and “submit” (that sort of thing, anyway) in the first mix. Not good press at all. Back to the lab.

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This is too fun. Cut that out.

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:astonished:

This is just too cool…oh the fun I can have with it!