IRAN AND THE BOMB

When WikiLeaks dumped its first trove of purloined State Department cables on the world last week, Fast Company ran the whole thing through “a simple word cloud generator,” a computer application that uses different lettering sizes to depict the frequency with which specific words appear in a given body of text. The resulting graphic looked like a fried egg, sunny-side up, with a big, yellow-orange “IRAN” as the yolk. The hundred or so other words (with “RUSSIA,” “NUCLEAR,” and “MISSILE” a bit less small than the rest) looked like the salt and pepper.

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http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/12/13/101213taco_talk_hertzberg