throw another bear in the canoe - A neat toy that tanaise found.

A neat toy that tanaise found.

Jun. 18th, 2008 at 10:23 AM

Wordle, a Java applet that makes word clouds out of your fiction... or anything else you got.

I had to hack it a little. "William" should be "Will," of course, but it edits that out as a common word.

Hmm. I wonder what that book is about.

Mood: pensive

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owldaughter wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 02:42 pm (UTC)

Yay, a distracty-toy!

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panjianlien wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 02:43 pm (UTC)

Mmm, Murchaud.

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pnkrokhockeymom wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 02:48 pm (UTC)

that makes me full of squee!

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ahsavka wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 02:49 pm (UTC)

That is the coolest thing I have seen all week and /completely/ makes my day. Thanks.

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inlaterdays wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 02:50 pm (UTC)

This is downright spiffy.

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jaylake wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 03:35 pm (UTC)

Well, boo, it just gives me a blank result, no error, no nothing.

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youraugustine wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 03:36 pm (UTC)

It strikes me that "Kit William" would be an interesting name for an adventure-story hero.

Also, that is seriously cool.

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fledgist wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 06:52 pm (UTC)

It also resonates with Titwillow....

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temporus wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 03:46 pm (UTC)

Kind of reminds me of http://www.textarc.org/
Which is quite interesting in its own way, but I don't know if the person who created TextArc is doing anything new with it. I just wish it allowed you to input your own works interactively, because it's kind of wild.

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joshenglish wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 03:52 pm (UTC)

Oh wow

This is cool because it is beautiful, and almost complete useless.

A selection from my work in progress.

Thanks for the link

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casacorona wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 04:15 pm (UTC)

Interesting. I just pasted in some flap copy...I wonder what would happen if I just put the resulting image on the back of a paperback book?

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doortoriver wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 06:00 pm (UTC)

*laughing* Oh, that is a FUN little widget.

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cavalaxis wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 06:30 pm (UTC)

This is a most brilliant time killer.

Vogon Sonnet in A Minor

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fledgist wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 06:50 pm (UTC)

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fledgist wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 06:51 pm (UTC)

That was a sonnet called 'literacy exercise'.

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stillnotbored wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 07:08 pm (UTC)

It looks really cool, but won't work for me. Alas.

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deusexmachinatio.com wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 07:36 pm (UTC)

Masquerade

I would assume you're already aware of Kit Williams, and Masquerade? If not, I suspect you'd enjoy reading up on it.

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also_huey wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 09:27 pm (UTC)

Help Wanted: Haters

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dameange wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2008 10:44 pm (UTC)

hi! wonderful toy, thank you for sharing. quick question: how did you save the picture? is there a way to save it for future use?

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almightychrissy wrote:

Jun. 19th, 2008 12:38 am (UTC)

Java hates me so I couldn't see it, but the little version is pretty cool.

(I just finished Whiskey and Water yesterday and was so prepared for massive soul-crushing trauma that when it ended I was a little bit shocked. And then the "NEED MORE NOW" kicked in, but that's beside the point.)

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