wordles

oh, the things you can do on the internet.
since i'm pretty much resolved to not leaving the house today, let me share with you what i just learned about from u-handblog: wordles.
amazing. you can enter the web address for your blog (or anything, really) and create an abstract word collage of the words most used in the site: the more frequent the word, the larger it appears.
basically what i learned from my blog's wordle is that i wrote more about canning than everything else put together. i'll have to check back on wordles after my blog's been around a while longer.
you also have the option to paste in a bunch of text and create a wordle out of that. i took my thesis [about native hawaiian resistence to geothermal energy development] and pasted that in, just to test how it would work with 128 pages of text. it didn't even blink - and produced this:
it's really fun, and a great way to avoid doing other things. you can also mess with the colors and font and word direction, if you've got something big to procrastinate about. try it out.
also, if you want to save the image (the website doesn't really allow you to do that) lisa lam of u-handblog kindly gives you links on how to take a screenshot with both macs and pcs.
if you do make your own wordle, please comment about it and share.