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I'm nothing if not capable of finding distraction on the internet!

Rediscovered Wordle, which creates beautiful word clouds of text you paste in/rss feeds you enter.

I spent far too long with the "randomize" button, but this is probably my favourite one for We Happy Few:



When I have a printer (and a wall!) I think I'll print out that one and put it on my wall. It's like a condensed trigger of word joy!

I also like how the font/positioning etc makes it look like a poster for a pulp/retro novel or something.

Ah, I wish I had a story on the go now so I could immerse myself in writing again.


ETA: It's so tempting to create word clouds for each story and just have that as the story summary. Though, that'd probably end up shiny for me, annoying for everyone else. Still, such a great visual snapshot.

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[greenapple.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

It's so tempting to create word clouds for each story and just have that as the story summary.

That's a pretty fabulous idea, actually.

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Well, the above is so exemplary of the story, after all! Maybe I shall do it for as many as I can before I get bored with it.

PS. LJ is STILL not emailing me notifications of your comments. Grr.

[askmehow.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that's gorgeous! I just spent ten minutes noodling around with Wordle too; it's absolutely addictive.

I do have a question, though; how did you manage to render the cloud as a picture? Whenever I try, it doesn't work. Did you screen-capture it?

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Yep, screencaptured (PrtScn key in windows, Command+Shift+3 in mac) then cropped it in photoshop.