Thing 8

My favorite Flickr mashup that I found was Phrasr.  You can type in any phrase, and the site will “illustrate” the words with images from Flickr, then play the images as a slide show.  It’s a lot of fun, but I think it could also have some educational applications (interesting literacy exercises, for example).

Here are the images Phrasr gave me for the phrase “love your librarian”:

And here’s “crazy cat lady”:

I’m not being terribly creative with my phrases, but you get the idea.  You can also customize each image from a group of selected pictures by clicking the “Change” button, just in case you don’t like the image Phrasr initially assigns for a word.