Prehistoric Tree - Glaarup, Fynen, Denmark

I once again had the pleasure of spending my yuletide in Scandinavia.

This photo is of an unusually shaped tree found in the grounds of Glaarup castle on the island of Fyn in Denmark. It's said to be where Hans Christian Andersen wrote the fairytale 'The Ugly Duckling'. His former residence in Odense is about a 35 minute drive up the road from here.

Denmark's great. Go there. Enjoy.

I've 'ad me 'ead in them Clouds today

This site is brilliant (snapshirts.com). Choose any URL - they'll generate a search cloud in about 30 seconds, display it on the webpage, give you some basic font/colour customisation options, then you can order a T-shirt with the word cloud printed onto it!

I thought it'd be entertaining to try and cut through political spin in this way, a cloud from the Labour party's official website, followed by a cloud from the Conservative party's homepage.

Now decide for yourselves where their concerns lie, or are the sites so SEO optimised that this is marketing, hype and spin?

Quite possibly, check Antony Mayfield's post on US political MEMEMEtubing.here.

Catch me in my Cloud...

Not last year, but the year before last year, some people were discussing the possible usefulnessesses and merituses of word/search clouds. I applaud them and the little information adventure they've sent me on. Thanks neural.it

Whistling through the snippets of the Porter Stemming Algorithm, reading of mysteriously named people like Chirag Metha and the awesome Tag Generator, redigesting the potential impact of examining presidential speech clouds...can you see the possibility? the potential impact?

Let's revolutionise understanding and education, let's generate clouds of philosophers, prophets, sceptics, scientists - Shakespeare, Sarthe, Nostradamus and Einstein - see what they said, what they meant to say, what they never knew they were saying - in seconds, in clouds - a visual input, an organising of informational chaos in the literal blink of the digestive human eye.

Open source this cloud generation software - free it from the php boundaries that are between clouds and the common Man - let's cloud our texts for children's classes, cloud our media channels output to reveal their biases, cloud a company to reveal it's true focus...

cloud.lic.io.us

Want a Mac os 10 dashboard widget that displays a live and updating search cloud based on all of your del.ici.ous tags? Et voila - here it is - great, clever fun.

Cloud.lic.io.us