You see them cluttering up trendy magazines; current buzzwords scattered over the page in a variety of colours and orientations. I believe they are called “word clouds”, and they are utterly pointless. All the more reason why you should make some of your own.
You can guess which web site this was extracted from:

BBC News:

A Dylan song:

All made with Wordle.
For some reason I couldn’t make the menu options work in Firefox, but Safari was OK. Maybe just the way my Firefox is configured. Anyway, go create!
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2012-01-26| Wally says‘You can guess which web sit this was extracted from:’ All the words indicate that it is your web sit (sic), but the overall shape has got me baffled !
2012-01-27| Grant saysPerhaps the shape is an eye with the pupil in not quite the right place…