Can you name this song? (Click the image for a closer look.)

This is all the lyrics of a song, minus any mentions of the title, cloudified by Wordle. The bigger the word, the more the songwriter used it.

Can you name this song? (Click the image for a closer look.)

This is all the lyrics of a song, minus any mentions of the title, cloudified by Wordle. The bigger the word, the more the songwriter used it.

Can you name this song? (Click the image for a closer look.)

This is all the lyrics of a song cloudified by Wordle, minus any mentions of the title. The bigger the word, the more the songwriter used it.

These twelve US presidents have something in common. This is a complete list — they’re the only presidents that qualify for this list. What unites them?

John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Grover Cleveland
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Jackson
Lyndon Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
George Washington
Woodrow Wilson

Hints will be forthcoming if necessary.

HINT #1 (Nov. 6, 2008): Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to qualify for this list.

HINT #2 (Nov. 8, 2008): Bill Clinton had a chance to put himself on the list, but it didn’t work out.

Can you name this song? (Click the image for a closer look.)

I plugged the lyrics of a popular song into Wordle and edited out any mentions of the title. The size of a word in the cloud represents how frequently the word appears in the song.

I plugged the lyrics of a popular song into Wordle and edited out any mentions of the title. The size of a word in the cloud represents how frequently the word appears in the song.

Your question: What song is this? (Click the image for a closer look.)

“The Enemy Within,” Rush
“I Love L.A.,” Randy Newman
“It’s Four in the Morning,” Faron Young
“Money for Nothing,” Dire Straits
“Somewhere I Belong,” Linkin Park
“The Star-Spangled Banner,” Marvin Gaye
“Where It’s At,” Beck

“Freedom 90,” George Michael
“I Never Loved You Anyway,” The Corrs
“It Was a Good Day,” Ice Cube
“The Real Slim Shady,” Eminem
“Shake Ya Tailfeather,” Nelly, P. Diddy, and Murphy Lee
“Sk8r Boi,” Avril Levigne
“Too Much Information,” Duran Duran

What unusual distinction do these people share?

Steve Buscemi, Brian Dennehy, Kelsey Grammar, Derek Jacobi, Paul Lynde, Vincent Price, Timothy Spall, and Kate Winslet

The Beatles, The Smashing Pumpkins, Morrissey

Bonus point: Can you figure out an artist who could come next?