This is the coolest thing, like... ever. Everyone go to Visual Thesaurus.com. This thing is beautiful. I think I saw God in there. Haha.
Even though they don't list "hardcore" or "emo" (as Zachxc skillfully pointed out), all is forgiven because they have "carve up." Say word.
Here's what their website had to say about the project.
An experiment in language and interface, Plumb Design's Visual Thesaurus is both an artistic exploration and a tool to explore, study, and analyze the structure of language. By displaying the interrelationships between words and meanings as spatial maps, the Visual Thesaurus translates language into a visible architecture.
The Visual Thesaurus was created using Plumb Design's Thinkmap™ visualization software, a Java-based technology designed to create dynamic interfaces to information systems that reveal interrelationships often obscured by conventional methods of navigation and information display. Please visit http://www.plumbdesign.com/products/thinkmap for more information about Thinkmap.
The Visual Thesaurus accesses data from WordNet, a publicly available lexical reference system developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University. This database, inspired by psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory, contains over 50,000 words and 40,000 phrases collected into more than 70,000 sense meanings.
Designed to be accessible to a broad audience, including low-bandwidth users, the original Visual Thesaurus, launched in early 1998, tapped only a small portion of the comprehensive WordNet database. The new Visual Thesaurus exposes more of the relationships between words and their meanings to reveal clusters of words and meanings related by underlying lexical concepts.
To learn more about how to use the Visual Thesaurus, you can take the Guided Tour.
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1 - The Theory
that's pretty hot... i may just have to add that to my favorites. haha.
peace.