So, it’s possible to spell words with Flickr photos, eh?

Kastner’s created a little gizmo to do just this from the photos of Flickr’s countless users.

» Respell Dharmasphere, or…

Spell your own: (on Kastner’s Flickrtext site)

Today is the first full moon in May, a traditionally auspicious day known as “Ananda Purnima” (the blissful full-moon). On this day in 1921, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar was born in Jamalpur, India.

His early work as a railway clerk betrayed little of the storm that was soon to occur around him… Read more…

I had a brief chat with my linguistics professor today about the feasablility of teaching a robot to speak like a human being. Read more…

Isn’t language incredible?! The human mouth and vocal cords can be manipulated with such precision to emit sound waves that another individual can discern and then decipher, to comprehend the feelings and ideas of the speaker.

And the written word - a collection of ordered squiggles on a page - can be recorded to convey exactly the same meaning, via the visual organs of another. Read more…