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The Constant Flux of Feeling

Via Alan, some dynamic visualization of emotions as expressed in online posts from a variety of sources. Some background:

Once a sentence containing “I feel” or “I am feeling” is found, the system looks backward to the beginning of the sentence, and forward to the end of the sentence, and then saves the full sentence in […]

They Have Landed, and Want Extra Cheese

Sign seen on the way home, outside a pizza joint on Broadway:

Mooninites Eat Free.

Insidious. Someone call the mayor of Boston. But—what they don’t know is that I ate there once and the pizza is terrible. Ha! Who’s laughing now, you little bastards.