Word clouds

I'm a fan of the word-cloud's function as a super-adjective. Now, some dude has done a really nice job of it in a java applet: check out Wordle. Below is a cloud representation of the text on this page (as it existed prior to this post). Common English words are ignored, then the font size in the cloud determined by the word's frequency of appearance. I don't think color has any significance other than demonstrating that the programmer has written a nice algorithm for aesthetically pleasing patterns.