There is a very neat website that allows you to create a “word cloud’ from pasted text passages. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

You can make a VERY cool screen saver image by using words from favorite/famous passages.

It has a gallery section where people saved their wordles such as

• Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
• Macbeth
• Star Wars Episode IV script

Obviously you can make your own from your favorite passage or book. I copied text from the Project Gutenberg book “Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”. I copied and pasted my favorite chapter (Tulipomaina) and came out with a really cool screen saver image (after a little work with the settings of course).

I checked out the site and was amazed by the service. It’s FREE, you can paste any text you want, and you can customize the output in a variety of ways, including font, portrait or landscape layout, the number of words you want in your cloud, and so on.

If you love the written word and want some cool original screensavers, check out Wordle!