Wordle

[Robin Landseadel]

On Dec 10, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you
> provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more
> frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with
> different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create
> with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out,
> or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
>
> http://www.wordle.net/

Were I to make a "Word Cloud" from Inherent Vice, these word clusters  
would form: Private Eye, Bonzo Dog Band, Manhattan Beach, the infinite  
varieties of Marijuana, "The War On Drugs," Gordita Beach, Doc, KRLA/ 
KHJ, Suburbs, Watts, Manson, Golden Fang/Fu Manchu, Top 40 radio's  
heyday, "Fast Food Nation", "It Never Entered My Mind," Heroin, Nixon/ 
Hughes, FBI/CIA, "Family Values," Cheech & Chong, Lew Alcindor, The  
internet, Internet addiction, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Magenta  
and Kelly Green, LSD/The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, Beatles/Beach  
Boys/Byrds/Boards/Bossa Nova, Shasta/Bigfoot . . .