Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ78WHpGZ1o&eurl=http://boingboing.net/&feature=player_embedded
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| Zak Smith, Shawn Cheng, and Nicholas Di Genova take turns drawing monsters fighting each other…
So this is how it works: Zak draws something. Shawn draws something that will fight it. Zak draws his thing fighting back. Shawn draws his thing fighting back and maybe tripping over a statue. Then maybe Zak’s thing kills Shawn’s with the statue’s head. Then Shawn draws a new thing. Zak’s surviving thing attacks it. And so on. Zak and Shawn got things started, and now Nick has joined the fray. Though not exactly an exquisite corpse, it will be exquisite, and there will be many corpses. |
http://roadofknives.com/redux/01-10.shtml
A couple of the best graphs from Graph Jam, where pop cultural references are made into infographics. http://graphjam.com/
An ex-Jack Sparrow spills on life at the Magic Kingdom.
As Jack, I had four hour-long sets a day. We worked in New Orleans Square. I would find a place I liked, and the hosts would set up my line. A host is someone who helps run the line of people that forms to meet you. They’re basically your security. When we started, Disney thought they wouldn’t give us a host. They thought we’d mingle. I laughed at that. I said, “I don’t mean to be the guy that knows it all, but from Renaissance Faires I can guarantee you this character will have the park’s longest line.” Disney had invented a Jack Sparrow autograph the three of us learned, and immediately the line for autographs was gigantic. The Jacks ultimately got two hosts.
From LAMag.com; http://www.lamag.com/featuredarticle.aspx?id=7016
Haikus are fun. I could never compose them, however, due to my syllable counting deficiency.
Arial, the clone
But not of helvetica.
Grotesque is its sire.
Via boingboing; http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/05/15/font-haiku.html
Cute, whimsical, irreverent, animated gifs are perfect for emoticons. The monkeys enjoy the largest collection, and therefore, the widest range of emotions. Green piggy and pink piggy are also very cute. Zipped files of all of the gifs are here. pink-piggy.zip, green-piggy.zip, all-cute-monkeys.zip
The original source, and more animated gifs here, http://msn.o-pass.com/show_monkey.php?page=1
English version of the website is here. http://www.imemoticon.net/
From the book Safe Baby Handling Tips by David and Kelly Sopp. Available on Amazon. There are other books too, but this is the funniest. Found via c00lstuff.com
