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wanderingmind — Mon, 05 May 2003 20:13:31 -0800

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By: wanderingmind

wanderingmind — Mon, 05 May 2003 20:14:09 -0800

In other words: The Eater of Meaning is a program for extracting the message from the medium. Format and presentation are unaffected, but words and letters are subjected to an elaborate nonsensification progress that eliminates semantics root and branch. It is written in Python, and can be run as a standalone script or used as a CGI-based proxy.

By: Bletch

Bletch — Mon, 05 May 2003 20:35:20 -0800

Oh, that's odd. Check out BBC News with the Eater; it's like something out of an early-morning dream.

By: hobbes

hobbes — Mon, 05 May 2003 21:07:54 -0800

Opened the BBC window twice and they're different from each other.

By: msacheson

msacheson — Mon, 05 May 2003 21:08:09 -0800

Most confusing FPP ever, but quite clever, wandering.

By: hobbes

hobbes — Mon, 05 May 2003 21:12:42 -0800

Lorem Ipsum, anyone?

By: muckster

muckster — Mon, 05 May 2003 21:32:44 -0800

Is there a way to tweak somebody's browser to send every page through the Eater of Meaning? Would make a decent prank.

By: squirrel

squirrel — Mon, 05 May 2003 22:08:16 -0800

Wanderingmind, you rock. A bold move and a just one. Thank you. This has detroyed my brain, and now I am free. Fuck all of you, I'm free.

By: specialk420

specialk420 — Mon, 05 May 2003 22:27:34 -0800

did someboday say prate?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 05 May 2003 22:27:40 -0800

The clavdivicator!

By: sugarfish

sugarfish — Mon, 05 May 2003 23:12:36 -0800

stavros: when i first started reading the fpp, i totally checked to see if clavdivs wrote it. sorry clav!

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Tue, 06 May 2003 00:31:22 -0800

Reading this FPP reminded me of my experiences with Finnegans Wake. Very uncomfortable. I tried reading it aloud, even, just like I tried with the Wake. Worked just about as well.

By: gen

gen — Tue, 06 May 2003 03:22:33 -0800

or maybe the five fresh fish-inator!

By: dayan

dayan — Tue, 06 May 2003 04:38:27 -0800

As far as I'm concerned, this easily one-ups the Guided By Voices song generator.

By: vito90

vito90 — Tue, 06 May 2003 07:30:58 -0800

It is amazing how much better poetry is once it's been eaten.

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Tue, 06 May 2003 07:52:47 -0800

Oh, that's a good one, dayan. Even though it's on Tripod.

By: Su

Su — Tue, 06 May 2003 08:03:18 -0800

Search Google for the phrase "travesty generator," and pick one. They're lots of fun.

By: yeahyeahyeahwhoo

yeahyeahyeahwhoo — Tue, 06 May 2003 08:06:39 -0800

this reminds me of marshall mcluhan for some reason

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Tue, 06 May 2003 08:14:52 -0800

The FFFishinator? Unless I've been posting in my sleep, I don't think I've ever posted something so incoherent...

By: sennoma

sennoma — Tue, 06 May 2003 08:34:26 -0800

John Berryman? Is that you?

By: squirrel

squirrel — Tue, 06 May 2003 08:45:18 -0800

Yeah, i wondered about that ref, too, FFFish. Easy shot.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Tue, 06 May 2003 08:47:18 -0800

Reading this FPP reminded me of my experiences with Finnegans Wake. Spelunking of Whizzich...

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Tue, 06 May 2003 08:51:10 -0800

Also, props to Robert Anton Wilson, who has had this kind of nonsense (scroll down a bit) on his official bio page for years.

By: mitchel

mitchel — Tue, 06 May 2003 09:15:27 -0800

was anybody here ever a regular poster/lurker back when alt.non.sequitur had its heyday? here's a decent link if you've never heard of it, it's the mid-90s faq. it seems childish at first but it was really fun, a sort of mental food fight. probably the greatest thing i've ever encountered on the internet was a post there, that ran along the lines of: when hear that robble robble robble behind you, you know you're fucked.

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Tue, 06 May 2003 09:35:49 -0800

Trippy. My roommate's web design business is rather charmingly altered to "Fellatio Princes."

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 06 May 2003 10:37:28 -0800

From soyjoy's demeanification of the Joyce thread: "Thinness is greenish studebaker!" Words to live by. The user names are great too.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 06 May 2003 10:39:57 -0800

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By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Tue, 06 May 2003 11:42:23 -0800

"Thinness is greenish studebaker!" languagehat, dunno if you noticed, but it generates a new one just about every time. Now it's Thinkably is greek studs! I couldn't agree more.

By: hippugeek

hippugeek — Tue, 06 May 2003 16:26:26 -0800

I want to live the rest of my life filtering all information intake through the Eater of Meaning. Soyjoy, if you ever need a personal tagline, here it is: Frosty soya demon of thematic Joyousness Let's try a little erotica (mostly SFW): Whimsically fin expensively my skillful, my necks feelers, fireman thermometer coolies of theresa air, theory warnings likelihood waveland breachers, pullings me backwards intercommunication theology armenia....Sofas laugh filthiness my early as I rearrangeable I am toothpaste....A cockroach entices me everglade so sloper, my vagabond expander to accomplishments theater sweat. Therapeutic geocentric of my innate walsh kiss, succinctly, fonder, martial its jousting....I oncology sawtooth, on telnet, whacking mathematica.

By: wanderingmind

wanderingmind — Tue, 06 May 2003 16:51:46 -0800

Before it slips my mind entirely, I have to give props to Leonard Richardson, who wrote this thing in the first place, and is also the mind behind the page discussed here. Props and apologies for eating up all the bandwidth... If you know how to make it work, you probably should download the Python version to play with.

By: mmoncur

mmoncur — Wed, 07 May 2003 02:46:27 -0800

Here's the obligatory link to the Eater of Meaning Version of this thread.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Wed, 07 May 2003 07:38:26 -0800

wanderingmind, thanks again for the post. One of the funniest things about this is the way it affects one's brain... when you read, or even scan through, a whole page such as mmoncur's last link, the brain works so hard to try to make sense of it that when returning to, say, the MetaFilter main page, for the first few seconds the words still seem to be randomly generated - as if the brain is saying, yeah, OK, sure, this all makes sense... as nonsense.