Word clouds
www.lunchoverip.com/2008/06/word-clouds.html
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
It's a different way of looking at text: Wordle, a new (and addictive) Web-based tool, turns any text into a word cloud (via TEDblog). Here is the Wordle version of my recent Wall Street Journal article about the Solar Impulse project:
Put in a list of tags (in this case, my del.icio.us tags) and here is the result:
And the lyrics of John Lennon's "Imagine" produce this: