Human Brain Cloud

As featured in B3ta, the Human Brain Cloud is a word association game building a massive database of English language word associations.  A word or phrase pops up and you type in your first reaction to it.  Then you can see how many other people said the same thing, and it builds a picture of how our understanding of words fits together.  Click on 'view the cloud' to experiment with the cool graphical interface to see what the consensus is.  For example, type in 'duke' and you'll get 'of wellington' and 'of earl', but also 'nukem'.  (This is the internet, after all).  And on the topic of '80s', the cloud reveals the common phrases, 'leg warmers', 'bad hair', 'bad music' and possibly along the same lines, 'hair metal'. 

Human Brain Cloud