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beautiful word clouds

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on July 14, 2008
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so recently nic posted her “wordle” and then i asked myself what the hell is wordle and then i walked down and bought a sandwich but when i came back home i googled “wordle” and found out that “wordle” is a site on the world wide aol internet.

so here’s what comes up for my blog when processed through the lower intestine of wordle.net

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oh and yesisaworld only posted one so i thought i would post THREE b/c she gets to live in NYC while i’m stuck in socal and that sorta makes us even.

apparently wordle scans through whatever URL you provide and then runs some algorithm and generates a text cloud based on the aforementioned site’s word useage. i’m assuming that the larger the font the more prominent the occurrence of said word. however, if that’s true then i’ve used the word “phyllis” way way way too much.

UPDATE: ok so i just searched for the word “phyllis” on my blog and remembered that i posted this and it had 3 comments from interweb-bigshots and perhaps that explains the phyllis-action.

itunes top 10: i dare part deux

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on March 31, 2008
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so it’s been a while since i’ve posted my top 10 played itunes songs.

here they are:

1.) Happiness Is a Warm Gun - The Beatles
2.) Fake Empire - the National
3.) Let It Ride - Ryan Adams
4.) Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors - Editors
5.) She’s In It for the Money - Matthew Good
6.) Time to Pretend - MGMT
7.) San Bernardino - The Mountain Goats
8.) Consolers of the Lonely - The Raconteurs
9.) Mistaken for Strangers - The National
10.) Wagon Wheel - Old Crow Medicine Show

the fun begins with the tagging and i’m calling on nic, supertiff, duane and phil to do the same.

remember…this has to be a list of your top 10 most played tracks in itunes and no fucking w/ your stats to look cool.

also my #1 most played song is a 40 year old beatles tune…so dont feel bad if your top10 seems weird.

internet memes FTW!

puppy anorexia is a major political issue

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on January 31, 2008
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today was crazy-busy-awesome…so how about an old-fashioned bullet-post-blog?

- i’ve got a digital bathroom scale that has been going through batteries like crazy. after some investigating, i’ve traced the problem back to buster the dog. i think the little guy’s got self-image issues b/c he walks into the bathroom at least 5 times a day and stands on the scale. i know this because of the familiar *beep* that it makes when he hops on. i keep assuring him that he’s a “healthy” weight and that he shouldnt compare himself to the tiny italian greyhounds that live next door.

- picked up “the swell season” album by glen hansard the other day and have been enjoying some heart-break-acoustic music ever since. of all the tracks, i think i like “leave” the best b/c it’s written in my favorite chord progression of all time: E - C#m - B - A

i cant tell you how many great songs that are written in that heart-wrenching key. love it.

- watched the democratic debates tonight on CNN. despite an invitation to join my friends at the Kodak theatre, i was stuck watching from my bachelor-pleather-sofa. nonetheless, i was proud to be a liberal tonight and even more proud to get to vote for one of the democratic party’s fine candidates. personally, no politician has grabbed hold of my conscious and held on to it with a kung fu grip like Barack Obama. This weekend I’m going to volunteer at one of his SoCal campaign headquarters, in an attempt to put him over the top in CA on super tuesday.

- are you reading “yes is a world”? if you can put up w/ me rambling on-and-on about music, politics and the buster then you would love nic’s blog. go there now.

- now you too can own a liznelson original. liz has put up a lot of her most popular work as prints on imagekind. go here and check it out.

- last but not least, i wore the farting shoes today. what sucks is that i completely forgot that my grey chuck hightops make the aforementioned farting noise until i was in the NASA Radiobiology dept on campus. Need I say more?