Feelings

I feel excited, I just ran across a really nice project: We feel fine. It collects 'feelings' from the internet (defined as phrases containing 'I feel' or 'I am feeling'). These data are coupled with other statistics, such as gender, age, location and even the local weather at the time the item was posted. Nice to know: although people feel more often bad than good (93 thousand versus 76 thousand) most people feel better (128 thousand). The interface is nice and playful - I particularly like the mobs and murmurs.