Entries from March 2009

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Playing with words

I copied all of the text from an earlier paper I wrote (which is now evolving into a thesis) into Wordle to generate a “word cloud”. It turned out pretty neat, actually.

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Could be fun to run this against future interview transcriptions to see what pops up.

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Take a tour around Amsterdam

Google just released Street View for Amsterdam, meaning that you can virtually walk/drive around the city and have full 360˚ panoramas at Google Maps, just like you can in most major U.S. cities.
Back in August I caught these “Streetview Cars” driving around my neighborhood, and I actually posed with my absentee ballot. Alas, they [...]