It's time for Round Two of Raph's List of Cool Things on the Internet. The first and coolest thing is Many Eyes. It's an online tool that helps users graphically represent information in any number of ways. It also has user-loaded data sets that can be represented and manipulated, from census data to the texts of craigslist personal ads. Some of the textual tools are the most interesting. You can take the text of a speech to Congress, for instance, and view it as an arrangement of most-used words, with the most common words writ largest. Or you can see every use of the word "earth" in Whitman's Leaves of Grass organized by prepositional phrase. It sounds obscure, but  those kinds of graphics reveal some very basic things about the way we use language.

Also, I've decided that there's a much more important matter on which I'd like to get some kind of consensus. First, you need to watch this and this. Trust me, they're worth it. Now the question: penguin or warthog?