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Foto Friday: words in pictures 8 August 2008 10:21 am

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Wordle is a shiny applet that takes a big list of words and arranges them into a pretty collage-thing based in part on the frequency words appear (users can mess with the fonts and colors and tweak layouts). It’s a fascinating game, and yesterday I spent a very long time giving it all the tags I’ve ever used on TracyFood posts, with the following result (finally saved a few minutes ago, after lots and lots of the aforementioned tweaking):

Click through for a larger version; I think it’s pretty awesome. But another awesome thing happened yesterday, not long after I was done copying and pasting literally hundreds of tags into Wordle:

That’s right, party people. You’d best believe this thing is real. And now I have less than two hours to do a little more packing before we pick up the rental car for our farewell tour of the Willamette Valley (and most importantly, visits to the many awesome people we know and love therein). Awesome friends in Corvallis, Portland, and probably Newport, here we come! Wooooo!