Emily Greenhalgh: Science Writer
 
What's a wordle?  You're a wordle.  Okay, so that's not true.  Wordle is a glorious visualization tool that allows you to input text and create "word clouds."  The more a word is used in the text, the bigger that word is. 

Ah, the wonders of Flash.

I've been having some serious fun with it... if you couldn't tell by the following two examples.
(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Wordle says "forty-two" much less than I expected...also towel).
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This one is from a speech astronomer/personal hero/demi-god Carl Sagan gave in 1996 in regards to a picture of Earth taken from the Voyager I mission. 
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