This is fun. You can make a word cloud from a bit of text or a url.
Here is one for this site (click to enlarge):
Presumably the words are sized by frequency. I finding it quite amusing that "drinking" and "research" are the same size. Shows you what I have on the brain.
Hat-tip: Cosmic Variance
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