http://www.metafilter.com/tags/horse_ebooks Posts tagged with 'horse_ebooks' at MetaFilter. Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:52:09 -0800 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:52:09 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/122049/Markovian%2DParalllax%2DDenigrate <blockquote>But back in 1996, users of the proto-Web community Usenet got spammed with messages that reached an almost transcendent level of bizarre—a weirdness so precise it implied the influence of a very human intelligence. “Markovian Parallax Denigrate,” read the title of each post, followed by a mountain of seemingly meaningless word spew:</blockquote> <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/society/markovian-parallax-denigrate-spam-mystery/">Unraveling the Internet’s oldest and weirdest mystery</a> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.122049 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:52:09 -0800 7wtc 9-11 9-11wasaninsidejob Abe adventitious air break brotherhood caw chairperson cia Cohen cohesion collaborate conspiracytheory countenance craggy Debby Denigrate different ditty dunk Dwight email e-mail episodic escritoire file firelight flogging hark Hertzog horse_ebooks impromptu inferring inheritance inland invocate ITT Janeiro jitterbugging lockerbie markovchain Markovian markvshaney McKinley medicine morphine most nameable napkin Newtonian nineeleven novo Parallax paranoia pathogenesis pendant pinpoint refrigerate rococo rue shadflower snowflake spam sportswriting Stirling tousle towerseven truther update Uranus usegroups usenet variac Webb wtc yearbook the man of twists and turns http://www.metafilter.com/114539/their%2Dpurposes%2Dare%2Dentirely%2Dopaque%2Dto%2Dme%2Das%2Dare%2Dthe%2Dpurposes%2Dof%2Dso%2Dmany%2Dothers "their purposes are entirely opaque to me, as are the purposes of so many others" was the first (eerily self-descriptive) 'card' I got in <a href="http://strategies.kezvh.net/">Strategies</a>, a bot in the tradition of Brian Eno's <a href="http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/">Oblique Strategies</a> but with most content fed from <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/horse_ebooks">horse_ebooks.</a> Although, I think that is a quote from a terrifying Cronenberg student film, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_of_the_Future">Crimes of the Future</a>. The 'purpose' of this bot, according to the description is "for use when you're lacking inspiration, or make your own game of it." tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.114539 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:10:29 -0800 Brian Cronenberg David Eno games horse_ebooks inspiration Oblique Strategies aretesophist http://www.metafilter.com/113139/horseebooks%2Dcreator%2Drevealed the <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/contribute/search.mefi?q=horse_ebooks&site=">previously discussed</a> horse_ebooks twitter spambot/oracle creator has been <a href="http://gawker.com/5887697/how-i-found-the-human-being-behind-horseebooks-the-internets-favorite-spambot">tracked down</a> by gawker tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.113139 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:44:24 -0800 gawker horse_ebooks russia spam Pants! http://www.metafilter.com/112597/it%2Dwas%2Dcompletely%2Duseless%2DThanks Can't get enough horse_ebooks? Try <a href="http://www.heyben.com/horse_ebookmarklet/">horse_ebookmarklet</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.112597 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:16:42 -0800 bookmarklet deliciousmud horse_ebooks functionequalsform http://www.metafilter.com/111267/Horseebooks%2Dvoice%2Dcarried%2Dthrough%2Dthe%2Dtrees%2Dand%2Dechoed%2Dinto%2Dthe%2Dnight <a href="http://horseebooks.tumblr.com/">Horse_ebooks fanfics</a> [sltmblr] <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/107724/I-Will-Make-Certain-You-Never-Buy-Knives-Again">[prev]</a> <small><a href="http://waxy.org/">[via]</a></small> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.111267 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:32:16 -0800 fanfic horse horse_ebooks neigh tumblr SomaSoda http://www.metafilter.com/107724/I%2DWill%2DMake%2DCertain%2DYou%2DNever%2DBuy%2DKnives%2DAgain Mr. Destructo (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/103813/The-official-blog-of-notorious-former-African-dictator-Mobutu-Sese-Seko">previously</a>) discusses the <a href="http://www.mrdestructo.com/2011/09/downfall-of-horseebooks.html">inscrutable twitter bot</a> named <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Horse_ebooks">horse_ebooks</a>, a Russian spam account that communicates entirely through snippets of ebooks and is more hilarious (<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Horse_ebooks/status/69197250127077377">1</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Horse_ebooks/status/93420123314073600">2</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Horse_ebooks/status/116529045612662784">3</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Horse_ebooks/status/113977551365480448">4</a>), confusing (<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Horse_ebooks/status/114338163736068096">1</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Horse_ebooks/status/116151299082424320">2</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Horse_ebooks/status/114766219323768832">3</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Horse_ebooks/status/115792903380545536">4</a>) and philosophically poetic (<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Horse_ebooks/status/116232740533321728">1</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Horse_ebooks/status/115864724322779137">2</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Horse_ebooks/status/114707011169562624">3</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Horse_ebooks/status/116658004362924032">4</a>) than any non-spambot on the internet. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.107724 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:19:57 -0800 emergingsentience gibsonianfuture horse_ebooks spam spambot splendiferousguacamole talkingpaperclip twitter cobra_high_tigers