Leslie K. Brown mentioned Wordle in her blog and I immediately wanted to try it out. I grabbed the entire text of Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and here was my result:
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The geeky side of me (um, all of me?) is giddy.
3 responses so far ↓
gillis // September 25, 2009 at 11:37 am |
oh no oh no, now i can’t stop playing with wordle!
JAm // September 25, 2009 at 7:26 pm |
That is quite interesting, Check out this wordle projcet it gives a new perspective of looking at the inuagural addresses. Its much easier to digest than reading them all, however looking at wordle may just intrique one to read the whole address. You may even be suprised by some of them. There is a stark contrast between lincolns first and second.
http://www.governingdynamo.com/blog/2009/8/19/take-a-look-at-some-historic-american-rhetoric.html
Leslie // September 29, 2009 at 6:40 am |
Yay, isn’t it fun?