Comments on: Thing a Week Word Cloud

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:56:14 +0000

I think it’s hilarious that “monkey” is the biggest word. I guess it makes sense, what with it being practically every other word in ‘My Monkey’ and ‘Code Monkey’.

And yes, this absolutely needs to be emblazoned on every piece of merch imaginable. You probably could make cafepress’ servers actually explode.

By: Lasse Havelund

Lasse Havelund — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:28:45 +0000

I demand t-shirts.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:33:33 +0000

Sexual. Anyone got it as a wallpaper though? Can’t seem to yoink the file…

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:00:46 +0000

I just tried it with my own archive of lyrics. Turns out I don’t use as many interesting words…

Ah well, I guess I just have to write a song about bananas or something, to add some variety to my word cloud.

And I also agree that this would be a sweet poster/T-shirt

By: Stephen Cosgrove

Stephen Cosgrove — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:45:45 +0000

Desktop wallpapered.

By: ShadeJinx

ShadeJinx — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:27:27 +0000

I agree, a poster of this would ROCK… gimmie…

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:42:25 +0000

>>This needs to be put on a shirt ASAP.

Absolutely.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:36:39 +0000

I think it would make a good poster too!

By: barefootorbust

barefootorbust — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:29:16 +0000

I second that. If only to wear a shirt that makes people think WTF?

By: Martin Gordon

Martin Gordon — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:23:27 +0000

This needs to be put on a shirt ASAP.

By: JoCo

JoCo — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:55:45 +0000

Yep, smart quotes. Fixed em.

By: Rob (not the boring manager one)

Rob (not the boring manager one) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:50:09 +0000

These word clouds look alot like my thought bubbles with the JoCo songs running around in them all day

By: Kerrin

Kerrin — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:17:46 +0000

Don’t blame wordle…I think it is my fault.

By: Darth Paradox

Darth Paradox — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:42:44 +0000

“Don” is likely “Don’t”, cut off at the apostrophe. I notice other fine words such as “ve” and “ll” and “doesn”. Wordle ought to fix that; it seems to be a flaw in their algorithm. (Likely a problem in distinguishing apostrophes from single quotes; a more refined regex in their tokenizer could probably fix it.)

By: Roman V.

Roman V. — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:35:40 +0000

So I take it you put in the lyrics and it will make the sizes based on how often the lyrics appear? If so, then “monkey” being gigantic makes a lot of sense.

By: Kerrin

Kerrin — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:04:22 +0000

Someone could write the uber JoCo song from this, it would go something like:
Time Monkey gonna don Jane town
Time Monkey gonna make good time
Time Monkey gonna love long day
Time Monkey gonna don big thing

Ok, maybe not.

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:58:49 +0000

This has warmed my little typography-lovin’ heart.

By: Mark Gordon

Mark Gordon — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:23:27 +0000

It’s cool because it demonstrates monkey supremacy!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:44:04 +0000

I don’t get it. Why is this cool?

By: Marcy

Marcy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:39:41 +0000

Who are Don and Jane?

By: Christian Davis

Christian Davis — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:30:58 +0000

Monkey is the biggest (most often used) word.

This isn’t a surprise.