For the last year Yan-Shih and I have been studying French once a week (4.5hr on Saturday!) A few months ago I wrote some Python code to read the RSS feeds of the most popular French newspaper site, and then kept track of the count of each word. I repeated this every week for a few months.
In the end I had a database of the top ~3000 words used on the site. Today I decided I wanted to play with Processing, so created this little word collage. It is 1680x1050, my monitor's resolution. Two thumbs up for Processing!
This entry is from my tech blog and was written on Jan. 1, 2010. It's been tagged with french and processing.
Just saw a large white parrot try to steal the clothing from someone's drying rack. (about 2 weeks, 5 days ago)