Life magazine images digitized

Google has just added all photographs published in Life magazine as a searchable index. Just do an image search and append the string ‘source:life’. You can take a visual tour of recent american history from before the great depression to the end of the cold war. Here are some photographs I found:

Atomic Testing

 
Marylin Monroe

 
Ku Klux Klan

 

Viet Nam

 
Random

 
 
Google Images source:life is well worth browsing for a few minutes or a few hours if you have the time. Here are some searches I particularly liked: Big Bend National Park, New York World’s Fair, Time Covers from the 60s, Time Covers from the 50s.

Wordle: A Word Frequency Map Generator

Wordle presents a java application that generates word frequency maps from pasted text or an url.  For example, here is what I got when I fed it the text of the Declaration of Independence:

Kathy Svoboda’s web page at Baylor College of Dentistry:

And just one more: the president’s 9/11 address to the nation:

It’s addictive!