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Visual thesaurus

Perhaps one of the best visualization tools for word nerds ever: Visual Thesaurus. So you have your expected tree structure, showing branches of similarity between words. But the tree has this squiggly, organic flow to it making it rather addictive. Words gradually spring, tendril-like at the outermost tips, and the whole thing rotates and bobs like that volleyball Tom Hanks was obsessed with as it went out to sea. (Or, perhaps it rotates and bobs like my metaphors in this entry.)