March 03, 2007

Cerebro! "We Feel Fine is a software engine that harvests human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases 'I feel' and 'I am feeling'. The result is a database of several million human feelings, with about 20,000 new feelings added each day." Click on the little floating bubbles and get brief text thoughts from various blogs. The squares show pictures as well. Flash!

If you explore the task bar at the top, you can filter choices, and get graphics of statistics. The list at bottom left changes the display.

  • Oh my. There is a peculiar quality to this kind of drive-by voyeurism that I find compelling. Nicely designed, too.
  • I feel dizzy.
  • MonkeyFilter: drive-by voyeurism I feel bilious.
  • What ever happened to Gary Cooper? The strong, silent type. That was an American. He wasn't in touch with his feelings, he just did what he had to do. See, what they didn't know, was once they got Gary Cooper in touch with his feelings, they'd never shut him up. And then it'd be dysfunction this, and dysfunction that, and dysfunction ah va fa'n culo!