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kottke.org posts about Java

Lady Gaga sings about Java programming

Ok, so it’s not Gaga (and certainly not Christopher Walken), but she does work “object oriented” into the lyrics.

This is possibly the best production of the worst idea I’ve ever seen.


Color Code is a “color portrait of

Color Code is a “color portrait of the English language”. It’s a treemap visualization created by assigning over 33,000 words its own color (colors are determined by averaging the colors of images found for each word on the web). If it’s running a little slow on your machine, check out the gallery for some neat examples. By Martin Wattenberg, creator of the grandaddy treemap app, Map of the Market.