Wordle!

I saw Wordle on the blog of one of my future classmates, where she ran her thesis through it, so I decided to try it out on my own college thesis, just for kicks.

Basically, you copy in text, and it makes a picture of the top 150 words, varying in size according to their frequency. Here's mine:

That appears to sum up my academic interests quite nicely. Maybe I should bring a copy to these meetings I'm having with faculty to explain myself.

(Words of note: the indistinguishable "indistinguishable" beneath the OR of "recording," "woman," above the D in "sounds," and "Schafer" under the MU of "music." I have no idea why woman would have shown up that often, especially given that I was particularly neglectful of female artists in my paper. Also, it appears that my obsession with Schafer-bashing turned up here. Also, it is so cool that "Metal" turned up at the top, capitalized of course because it usually refers to Metal Machine Music or Metal Acoustic Music.)

I had to add: I just learned that Metal Machine Music is sampled in the TV on the Radio song "Let the Devil In," and that there exists a Killers song that begins in a similar way to a track on Metal Machine Music. Now I'm done.

Not actually done. I searched my thesis for "woman" to figure out the mystery, and it turns out it shows up a ton of times in a row in my description of Turing's imitation game. So there you have it.