A new site that can graph the sentiment of news stories based on data analysis. How much can we learn from the numbers behind the words?

Inarticle.org is an analysis tool for news stories or any other online writing designed by Jeremy Scott Diamond, a grad student at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Using his own custom programming and APIs, InArticle parses through text and highlights key words, proper names, places, phrases, and quotations and creates visually pleasing graphs based on the data.

Positive/Negative analysis of different articles on the same topic:

Each article is rated for positive or negative keywords and phrases to determine the overall tone.

Quotation analysis:

This graphs the frequency of phrases that appear in quotations in each article.

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Cute couple or cutest couple?

Via: popdust.com

On today's Ellen he told the host, “I still love her as a human being, but sometimes when you're in a relationship, I suppose it doesn't work out, does it? But that doesn't mean I regret it or anything.”

What is it with douchebags in hats apologizing on “Ellen” this week? (See: John Mayer)

Theirs is a forbidden love. From last night's Friars Club Roast of Betty White in New York City.

(AP / Charles Sykes)

(AP / Charles Sykes)

(AP / Charles Sykes)

(AP / Charles Sykes)

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Care to join him?

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Eric Kelly works at the Church Street gym in New York, where he trains/verbally abuses Wall Street types, who he calls nerds. “A lot of these cats, I just wish they'd forget the address to the gym.”

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Via: animalnewyork.com

Tech IPOs aren't all champagne and dump trucks full of cash. Before you jump at Facebook's upcoming offering (set to arrive tomorrow), you might be wise to consider these past catastrophic, scandalous and downright embarrassing tech IPOs as cautionary tales. There were plenty to choose from.

The initial public offering is a right of passage, the first time non-VC investors get a crack at owning a piece of a company. But given the amount of hype circulating in the tech world, it's also usually an occasion for early investors to get an inflated payout and leave lay investors with a rapidly deflating stock. We're not saying it's definitely going to happen when Facebook goes public tomorrow — but it does seem to happen an awful lot. So before you start buying up shares, we've got a few stories for you.

Webvan

This grocery delivery company is the gold standard of 90s tech-bubble flameouts. It raised $375 million going public in March of 2000. By July of 2001, they'd burned through their operating budget and filed for Chapter 11. Anyone who got in on the IPO was left with bupkis.

Dramatic Reenactment:

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If you're the type that finds dudes getting hit in the balls funny, then you'll want to see this. Alex Gordon forgot to wear his cup.

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And in painful, painful video form:

“The Queen of Disco” died today at 63 . She leaves behind a legacy of beautiful music — and beautiful photos. Here's a look back at her life of sequins, fabulous hair and sartorial surprises.

1976: Posing in an editorial.

(Getty Images / Fin Costello)

1976: Showing off her new Mercedes in Los Angeles.

(Getty Images / Michael Ochs Archives)

1976: Staring down a Christmas tree ornament.

(Getty Images / Michael Ochs Archives)

1976: Posing for a studio portrait in London.

(Getty Images / Michael Putland)

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This leads to all sorts of continuity questions. Great Easter Egg catch, Blastr!

The Logo In The Upper Mid Of The “Firefly” Anti-Aircraft Canon…

…Is The Same As The Corporate Logo In The “Alien” Movies

Source: blastr.com