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I put up a picture a few posts ago of a word cloud, which is a technology I know nothing about, but think is quite crafty and useful. By using the other side of your brain you get a sense of the prevalence of words in a block of text. I find that appealing in a completely different way than seeing a list. I don't know what people brighter than me -- quit shoving, you hordes -- do with such technology, but I like it because it turns the paradigm on its head. It appeals to the artistic, but it still supplies information. How many pieces of art can do that? In the reverse, how often can text-based information appeal to the artist? I'm not talking text-graphics, but how can columnar or line text appeal to an artist, give to an artist that which the artist would normally receive from a piece of art, just as this 'art' gives to a data-oriented person the satisfaction that data alone can give them?