Stumbled upon this site today, and found it very unique..... The site is Wordle
Here's how the siteowners define the site:
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.
Now I wouldn't really say that definition is wrong, but somehow, it doesn't bring out the beauty of this simple sounding java applet. But as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words:
So I guess you understand what this site does..... It simply takes the words off a given webpage (or a sample of text), and arranges them is a 'word-collage', but as can be seen above even this simple concept can lead to some strikingly brilliant results!! Plus if you don't like the results you can change the font, the colours, the layout, or the text itself...... The possibilities are virtually endless!!
The best part of this site is that the images created are completely free for use in any manner you may think of, from T-shirts with wordles on them, to even monetary purposes (like a book cover with a wordle on it!!). And the images produced do not advertise the site (No watermarks/logos/any such thing). I Personally am thinking of getting a tee with the above picture on it....... What a perfect way to define myself!! Could a site get any better??
I personally believe that this site should be among the 10 most innovative sites of 2009.
You can check out some brilliant Wordles at the Wordle gallery. And when you are inspired enough, you can begin creating your own wordles at http://www.wordle.net/create
I'd gone to the local multiplex to watch Dev D with a bunch of friends today. (I'd have named them all but they're all guys so I don't really think you're interested in knowing them :) )
The movie was pretty good (Though NOT deserving the rave reviews its gotten!! Except for the cinematography ..... It gets a 6/5 in that sector!!). I'll review it if I get the tid (That's time in Norwegian).
But what really struck me was the trailer of Anurag Kashyap's next venture.......... Gulaal, which was shown before Dev D began. Note that Dev D too is directed by Mr. Kashyap.
THE TRAILER ROCKED!!
When the trailer started I thought it was the trailer of some cheap C grade movie (hehehe, incase you clicked on the link), but by the end of its 2 and a half minutes runtime, I was left completely speechless!!
Hard hitting dialogues (including a new twist on the "Mere Paas Ma Hain" cliche), eerie scenes, A brilliant tag line (Love.... Power..... Revolution.), and a well executed background score in the trailer make this movie seem like a mindbogglingly brilliant, politically supercharged, youth awakening movie (Comparable to the likes of Sarkar (desi) or V For Vendetta (V-desi)). Even the movie poster (shown at the start of this post), seems to point at a movie which is unlike any one seen in recent times.
Check Out The Trailer Of Gulaal Below
This movie is one that I'm waiting for with great expectations..... Hope it doesn't turn out to be a dud!! Did someone just say "NO SMOKING"??
EDIT: Watched the movie on March 19th ...... My Worst nightmare came true......It sucks royally!!!! I'd just give it 2 stars out of 5 !!
I'm Finally On Flickr!!!! Internal Tests going on in College (The Dreaded ITs....... some call them Inhuman TortureSessions!! ITS.... Get it??), and as always, its these tension-filled days when I feel like doing *STUFF* the most........ Today Flickr called out to me, and how could I say no?? So in true Pink Floyd ishtyle, I was up online uploading my fave pics for the world to see!! So presenting (drumroll please) my first set of pics...... Most of them are by me or my dad, but surprises do lurk in the photostream........ Hope U like it!!
These Are Just 3 random pics generated by Flickr from around 405064 that I've uploaded (As of March 8th). To see the remaining pics, visit my Flickr page (I really like changing font colours!! :) :) ) at
Oh yeah, its finally here........ a landmark day for the uber-nerds!!! At 5:01 Indian Standard Time, UNIX time will reach the landmark value of, yup you guessed it, 1234567890.
This means that 1.2 billion seconds elapsed from January 1, 1970 UTC, which officially marks the beginning of the Unix epoch. The clock is used not just by Unix, but also by Linux, Java, JavaScript, and Mac OS X along with various other technologies.
Here's a great explanation about "1234567890 day" from TimeStamp1234567890.com (Especially For The N.O.N-N.E.R.D.)
What the hell are you talking about? We are talking about the "UNIX Time". The UNIX is a number defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970. You can easily calculate or save times with this number. Read more wikipedia
Does TIMESTAMP 1234567890 mean the end of mankind? Probably not... but you never know.
Can I buy TIMESTAMP 1234567890? Return to topic 1. You can do a lot of funny things with a timestamp - but buying?!
Do we really need timestamp? Absolutely yes! Without timestamp you can't do any time in computers
The countdown to this dubiously important occasion (actually a "count-up") has been awaited by many nerds (read Navin) with almost as much expectation as Y2K. Why?? Nobody really knows!! For me atleast, its just another occasion when "the higher power" has simply shown, once again, through UNIX this time, the beauty and symmetry of the universe, and as a wannabe Theoretical Physicist/L337 C0dEr/Life-Hacker, I do appreciate this in a purely artistic sense. Plus, an occasion like this calls for another late night geek party with CS gaming, and new "There's no place like 127.0.0.1" Tees......... So I'm not complaining!!! :)
Also, such events give rise to crazy sites like 1234567890Day.com (which actually provides links to a 12345678920 day party in India....... at Patna unfortunately!!!)
Anyway, in case you wanted to get to know when this landmark event occured, you can simply check out the countdown (correction: I mean "up") at CoolEpochCountdown.com
Finally after all these years, here's to the beginning of what was there, what is there and hopefully what will remain!! So here are my thoughts & words -Online!!
Stumbled upon this site today, and found it very unique..... The site is Wordle
