{"id":120,"date":"2005-06-27T23:18:32","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T15:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=120"},"modified":"2005-09-19T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T03:18:12","slug":"rebus-writing-web-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2005\/rebus-writing-web-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"rebus writing Web tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gujian.net\/woogle\/\">Woogle<\/a>, which takes entered phrases and turns some or all of the words  into pictures from Google searches.  Basically, it&#8217;s a sort of rebus machine, especially if you play around with the spelling. Remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/texts\/ideographic_myth.html\">the rebus principle is behind the creation of the Chinese-character writing system<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the result of one phrase I typed in:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/photos\/blog_images\/cat_in_the_hat.jpg\" alt=\"Cat in the Hat -- rebus\" \/><br \/>\n(OK, it&#8217;s not a rebus. But those are a little harder to get to work.)<\/p>\n<p>Woogle has a companion site named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c6.org\/toogle\/\">Toogle<\/a>, which searches for the photo in Google that corresponds to an entered phrase and renders that photo in  ascii art using the letters of the phrase itself. <\/p>\n<p>Here, for example, is my poor-man&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xubing.com\/\">Xu Bing<\/a> of the phrase &#8220;Chinese characters&#8221;:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/photos\/blog_images\/after_xu_bing.gif\" alt=\"imitation Xu Bing ascii art\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across Woogle, which takes entered phrases and turns some or all of the words into pictures from Google searches. Basically, it&#8217;s a sort of rebus machine, especially if you play around with the spelling. Remember that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2005\/rebus-writing-web-tool\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,31,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-writing-systems","category-xu-bing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}