{"id":1795,"date":"2008-07-22T09:58:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T14:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/07\/22\/words-in-the-clouds\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T09:58:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T14:58:13","slug":"words-in-the-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/22\/words-in-the-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Words in the Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2008\/07\/13\/a-portrait-of-a-book\/\">Everyone<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2008\/07\/21\/wordle\/\">amused<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/wordle.net\/\">Wordle<\/a> these <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2008\/07\/22\/last-best-wordle\/\">days<\/a>.  Plug in (or link to) some text, and it makes quite a nice word cloud, customizable in all sorts of ways.  At least <a href=\"http:\/\/3quarksdaily.blogs.com\/3quarksdaily\/2008\/07\/wordle.html\">Abbas<\/a> had the modesty to try Hamlet, rather than one of his own pieces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/wordle-applet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/wordle-applet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"254\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not so modest; this is my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/05\/21\/the-arrow-of-time-in-scientific-american\/\"><em>Scientific American<\/em> article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is amused by Wordle these days. Plug in (or link to) some text, and it makes quite a nice word cloud, customizable in all sorts of ways. At least Abbas had the modesty to try Hamlet, rather than one of his own pieces. I&#8217;m not so modest; this is my Scientific American article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}