Wordle
Welcome back ethereal beings and five-winged bats! If you've ever seen a cool "word cloud" somewhere on the internet, chances are that it came from Wordle ( http://www.wordle.net/ ). Wordle is a cool site where you can change any body of text into a word cloud, which is basically a cluster of words where larger words represent higher frequencies in the text. For example, here is Weird Al Yankovic's song "Trapped In The Drive-Thru" Wordled: http://bit.ly/pohgY . Another example, using the first draft of my thesis: http://bit.ly/hJBDd