MetaFilter posts tagged with Random

Aleatoric

theodolite — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:37:37 -0800

Do you like music? Do you like entropy? Do you have Spotify? If so, then go here to listen to a song chosen completely at random. It might even be good!

Permadeath. Puzzles. Portals. Pong

boo_radley — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:56:29 -0800

2x0ng (and its predecessor, Xong) is a hybrid roguelikes that has the appearance, sound and mechanics of Atari age games. Levels are randomly generated, and the rules are up to you to discover. Here is a video review for your elucidation. Available for PC, Mac and Linux.

Hypnotically devoid of context or meaning

The Whelk — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 07:58:34 -0800

Horse-egifs: A tribute to the surreal poetry of Horse_Ebooks, Horse-egifs takes a randomly selected video and makes a gif from a randomly selected chunk of that video.and then it gets posted to tumblr. [via mefi projects]

oh my god i can see forever

Rory Marinich — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:21:37 -0800

What happens to comics if newspapers go away? Garry Trudeau imagines a terrifying void. Webcomic artists think Garry Trudeau is silly. But if you, too, fear the vast abyss of a world without newspaper funnies, and lack the patience to search for all the treasures of the webcomic world, what you want is a comic that never ends. Pandyland and Mezzacotta each offer an infinite supply of three-panel comics, so that you'll never have to go without a brief moment's amusement. Sure, 99% of the comics you see might be crap, but there are gems amidst all the rubbish.

Shall I compare poop to a summer's day?

cthuljew — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:09:23 -0800

shakespoope.com

Your daily teleport

Iridic — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:29:39 -0800

"Every day a PHP script picks a random spot on the land mass of Earth. The nearest photo to that spot is posted here."

PASSPORT TO FLAVORTOWN

The Whelk — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:41:25 -0800

Unable to visit the infamously badly reviewed Guy's American Kitchen & Bar? Never fear, for Metafilter's own mccarty.tim has you covered with a Guy Fieri Menu Item Generator.

When I Post A New FPP

The Whelk — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:00:27 -0800

GIF and circumstance: A random and automated parody of #whatshouldwecallme-style tumblrs (previously) matching a random gif to a random recent tweet that contains the word "when." Potentially NSFW. [via mefi projects]

An example of "order out of chaos"

ocherdraco — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:09:36 -0800

"Draw some random points on a piece of paper and join them up to make a random polygon. Find all the midpoints and connecting them up to give a new shape, and repeat. The resulting shape will get smaller and smaller, and will tend towards an ellipse!" [code to make this in Mathematica] [a version which allows you to watch the process step by step, with 10 vertices or 100]

Randomized Consumerism

griphus — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:07:53 -0800

"Every time I run [Amazon Random Shopper], I give it a set budget, say $50. It grabs a random word ... then runs an Amazon search based on that word. It then looks for every paperback book, CD, and DVD in the results list, and buys the first thing that’s under budget."

Used Book Vending Machine

nadawi — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:33:57 -0800

A Random Used-Book Vending Machine

'Shuffle the pages like a game of cards'

misteraitch — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:54:00 -0800

Shuffle Literature and the Hand of Fate: an article about aleatory literature— including mention of Marc Saporta’s Composition No. 1; B. S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates; Robert Grenier’s Sen ten ces and Herta Müller’s Der Wächter nimmt seinen Kamm.

"Is this still you?"

litlnemo — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:28:43 -0800

On Election Night 2008 in Seattle, Renee received a random celebratory text from a stranger. She saved that text for four years, until last night.

"Rumor is Disney is basing its next cartoon on you." No, it won't be "Dumbo 2"

oneswellfoop — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:59:53 -0800

Emergency Compliment Random reassurances, as close as your web browser. (Of course, if you like what they say, they'll sell you a poster.)

We've Got Movie Sign!

The Whelk — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:20:21 -0800

The Random-MST3K-O-Matic mst3k.me shows you random Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes on YouTube. /random gets you a random episode, /joel gets you a random Joel episode, and /mike gets you a random Mike episode. [via mefi projects]

Fun With Accordion Covers, Part 2: Revenge of the Accordions

jph — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:47:36 -0800

Accordion covers (previously) are no longer just for soloists. You've probably seen five North Koreans performing A-Ha's "Take On Me." (Previously.) And of course tango is ever-popular for the accordion. But have you heard Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d minor? Or a medley from "The Sound of Music?" Or the first movement from Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik? Or a choreographed routine for North Korean school children? Or the theme from E.T.?

Jumbo Fingerprints Made From Random Stuff

Confess, Fletch — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:10:10 -0800

Jumbo Fingerprints Made From Random Stuff

shrim++p

cortex — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:24:06 -0800

Shrinp.com is a site that does very little and does it well. Stick anything after the domain name (shrinp.com/shrimp! shrinp.com/puggle! shrinp.com/metafilter!) and you'll get a helpfully labeled image of maybe that thing, or maybe not so much that thing, who can tell? The internet, it's very mysterious. Built by our very own 31d1. Approximately as NSFW as you try to make it.

indecision + vulgarity + location-aware browsing = om nom nom nom

flex — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:35:44 -0800

Where the fuck should I go to eat? previously: Where the fuck should I go for drinks? What the fuck should I make for dinner? (vegetarian option on the site)

Daily Odd Compliment

jeffburdges — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:12:19 -0800

Daily Odd Compliment

Dada Da Dada Da Dum

wanderingmind — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:42:39 -0800

Professional writers may scoff, / But limericks? Never enough! / Let crummy-dot-com / Fill your needs with aplomb / (The meter's occasionally off) Another of Leonard Richardson's projects (previously), this one combs a database and assembles limericks one line at a time out of pieces of existing ones. The results are mostly nonsensical, often bawdy, and regularly posted on Twitter.

In OTC market segments, plan to collateralize subprime CDOs

vidur — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:34:11 -0800

Financial Advice Generator.

indecision + vulgarity + location-aware browsing = booze

grouse — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:08:49 -0800

Where the fuck should I go for drinks? Previously.

A Boy and His Battle Kingdom

Mr.Encyclopedia — Sun, 15 May 2011 17:22:35 -0800

The Video Game Name Generator!

ex-Marine and gay grieving mother expose corruption in abandoned chocolate factory

philip-random — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:41:56 -0800

"An optimistic history professor and a Jewish organic farmer form a punk rock band in a UN refugee camp." -- "Three starry-eyed karaoke performers and a gay warlord start a girl's school in a Baltic village." -- "A starry-eyed high school journalism teacher and a mustachioed HAM radio operator follow their dreams on a leaky cabin cruiser." All this and more at the FALSE/FALSE FILM FEST. Introducing the random documentary generator. Your suggestions are welcome. Not to be confused with The True/False Film Fest.