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I’m part of a wonderful team running a fun website that sells word clouds on t-shirts. The site is called snapshirts.com. If you’d like to find out more, head on over and, if you’re a blogger, see what your word cloud has to say.

Background: A word cloud is a weighted list of words. Give us your blog URL and our thrifty robot scans your site, counts up as many words as he can find in thirty seconds, and spits them out in a nice pretty picture. The words you use more often are larger, and the less-frequently-used words are not. We also have word clouds taken from the archives of non-digital proto-bloggers like Herman Melville and Shakespeare. There’s a bunch of colors to choose from and different fonts to play with as well. A wonderful group of people worked extra hard to make this all happen, and I couldn’t be happier with the result. I do hope you’ll pay us a visit. Continue reading →

I have two 二 dos δύο deux zwei due ni dois twee 2 Flickrâ„¢ Pro Accounts to give away by July 15 and no one to give them to. Use the Contact Me form on this website to send your … Continue reading →

A recent conversation covered the possibility of implantable universal translators in the next 50 years. So we can all talk to each other no matter what country we’re from. This would also render the means by which I paid for … Continue reading →

My friend Nik and his classmate Elise have designed a reactive LED bracelet that’s tooooootally WICKED! Read about the lumiloop bracelet on Elise’s website…then Lumiloop got picked up here on this electronic design blog…then bounced over here to this coolhunting … Continue reading →