We Feel Fine

For almost a year now Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar have been scanning blogs to find and catalog human feelings. We Feel Fine is their database and visualization of several million emotional statements found by searching blog posts for the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling." Viewable in six different modes or movements as they call them, the site is a brilliant artistic interpretation …

Cool Hunting Daily, Now with Pictures

Loyal readers of CH know we update anywhere from 3 – 7 times each weekday. While many of you visit the web site and some subscribe to the RSS feed, there are also a bunch of people on our email list. We had been pretty slack about getting emails out up until a couple weeks ago when we started sending daily summaries of the site. …

State of the Union Visualizer

Brad Borevitz created this tool, simply named State of the Union, to visualize keywords from US presidential State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2006. Every address is included; for each one common words are displayed with the size showing how many times they were used in the speech and the height on the graph showing the word's significance as compared to other speeches. …