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1) Enter the address of your favorite web site here:
http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/

It represents the HTML tags used to build the page as a sort of fractal flower. It’ll give you a headache to figure exactly which part of your web page corresponds to which part of the resulting flower — but it DOES show you which web sites are simply constructed. Oddly satisfying to do. Try entering http://www.google.com vs. http://www.cnn.com, for example.

2) http://www.wefeelfine.org/index.html
This web site is an art project which scans current blog entries chosen at random across the internet and searching for the phrase “I feel” or “I am feeling”. It then keeps track of the next word following these phrases, and builds graphic presentations based on it. It’s trying to show the “mood” of the Internet.

That kind of mathematical representation of things both scares me and gives me a geeky boner.

Both links courtesy of the blog Monkey Bites.