Get Your Words As Pictures

A couple of interesting Google Images tools. The first one's called Woogle, and you can try it at http://www.gujian.net/woogle/index.php.

What Woogle does is allow you to input a phrase and get the phrase back as images from Google Image search. You have the option to use words and pictures, or only pictures, and you have the option to exclude common words (the, and, of) from the search.

I tried -- well, I can't tell you the one I tried first because I got back a result that absolutely isn't safe for work. But then I tried again with All Your Base Are Belong to Us and got a pretty weird set of pictures representing that phrase. Unfortunately the pictures aren't linked back to where they came from -- that would be interesting.

I had more fun with Toogle at http://www.c6.org/toogle/, which describes itself as "The most comprehensive image buggery on the web." Enter a word or phrase and you'll get a text picture of the first result for that search. I tried my brain hurts and got a text picture of a Gumby from Monty Python.

These are fun to play with, but a word of warning -- neither one of these image tools appears to use filtered search.

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