I think this is a fantastic online thesaurus, beautifully designed....
"Once the thesaurus has loaded, a text field will appear above.
To start your exploration, type a word in, and press the "CLICK TO LAUNCH" button. "

visual thesaurus

New Story network project 2003 - Texting glances : Ambient Interludes from the Dublin Cityscape

Texting Glances was designed with the Storynetworks group at MLE and the NTRG in Trinity College. This ambient "waiting" game establishes a symbiotic relationship between a transient audience, a waiting place, and a story engine that matches SMS inputs to image output. By incorporating culturally current messaging norms, the audience becomes an active collaborating author in a layered exploration of  social familiarity and public space.

more info

for those of you with video phones - should be of interest!

bigdigit

One day in the olden times, a fisherman from Errismore was fishing for gurnet. The day was very fine, and fish were plentiful. Toward evening, the fisherman felt a great weight on his line and thought he had hooked a heavy fish. He started to haul it in, and when he had it on board, what had he caught but a male child! His hair was as red as the coat of a fox. The hook was stuck into his cheek. The fisherman was very proud of his catch. The boy ran up under the forward thaft of the boat and stayed there.

The fisherman took him home, but as soon as he let him down on the floor, the boy rushed in under a bed, and even a man with a pitchfork couldn't get him out. There he stayed until the following day. They tried by every means to get him to eat and drink, but it was no use. The man went to the priest and told him what happened.
"You must take him out again, as close as you can to the spot where you caught him," said the priest, "and put him back into the sea again."
The fisherman took him in the boat next day and rowed toward the place where he had caught him. When they were near the spot, the boy gave a big laugh. He jumped, legs up, out of the boat, dived down like a cormorant, and was seen no more.

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from Folktales of Ireland, a compilation of oral tales transcribed. i've been sifting through to inspire some distributed content. this delicious number is from Galway... ideas on what to make out of it?

Mike Bennett from the Adaptive Speech interface group has just finished this online application that maps google pictures to text

symbolify online application

Type in a sentence (tick the "All" option if you aren't using English),
click the "Go Button" and it'll try to convert the sentence to a pictographic form with (loosely) the same meaning...

Any comments? Any other projects that might look like this one?

textable Movie is a graphical interface that allows a storyteller to compose
and visualize movies, images and sound environments while writing a story;
the media is self-edited in real time based on the textual content of
the story; the system aims to exalt the imagination of authors by instantly
immersing them in their experience

this project is online at : http://www.mle.ie/~cati/

this new demo will be shown at the next open house at mle, and the same type of concept will be used for another project between mle and trinity college dublin

any ideas?

cati