Sunday Late Brains

[elfs]

A Visa Ad For This Election

Ferragamo loafers: $520
Dolce & Gabbana blazer: $1,700
Battistoni custom-made shirt: $700
Galliano trousers: $1800
Fooling American voters into believing your opponent is an elitist: PRICELESS

Portrait of the Candidates as a Pile of Words

A fascinating pair of picturs. (via Nurse Ratchet)

Comments

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

On the contrary, it doesn't appear in Obama's blog because he's focusing on his own strengths and weaknesses instead of taking potshots at the other candidate. A direction McCain has decided not to take, because it would show just how weak he really is on most matters.

[shaterri.livejournal.com]

Ummm, no. I don't mean that conceptually McCain's name should be appearing in Obama's blog; I mean that if you actually go and look for yourself, via the links I provided, then it becomes obvious that McCain's name appears regularly in both blogs, and the fact that it appears in neither word graph suggests that something is wrong either in the way they were generated or in the way they're being labelled.

[xengar.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, I just tried to recreate their images by plugging the blogs in question into wordle.net myself, and Obama's comes out just about the same while McCain's is very different. McCain's name does show up in both word clouds, but it's relatively minor in the Obama one an still smaller than Obama's name in the McCain one.

Admittedly, the McCain blog doesn't have an easy to use RSS feed so the comparison isn't 100% direct, but it looks to me like the reporter found something interesting and then manipulated the facts to exaggerate the differences. I hate it when someone ruins a valid point like that.

[xengar.livejournal.com]

Trying a different method of inputting McCain's blog into wordle resulted in "John" "McCain" greatly outweighing everything but "Iraq," "Qaeda," and (oddly enough) "9:00."

I'm going to assume I did something wrong that time because everything else shrank into obscurity compared to those five.