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Author Topic: Online "generators"  (Read 5480 times)

mouser

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Online "generators"
« on: September 26, 2005, 07:16 PM »
"If you need something generated (a name, a ribbon, a password, some dummy text, corporate gibberish) a good place to start would be The Generator Blog."
http://generatorblog...torblog_archive.html

found from http://www.lifehacker.com/

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Re: Online "generators"
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2005, 01:24 PM »
w00t! Lookah my new avatar from the neon sign generator! Man, those sign generator thingies are addicting. I went on a binge a few months back and now I gotta stop all over again :)

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Re: Online "generators"
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2005, 02:11 PM »
Henceforth, you all should refer to me as Pope Unspeakable Billy V!  I love their Pope Name Generator...

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Re: Online "generators"
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2005, 12:08 PM »
A funny thing happened on the way to the SCI Conference...

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

Generate randomly-worded (yet grammatically coherent) computer science papers and the hilarious results of submitting one to an SCI conference...

Brutally funny sad and cryptic all at the same time. I wonder if this concept could be extrapolated to software. A program that does nothing at all, reveals no useful information, but in it's operation and user interaction, appears to be indispensible or essential. I wonder if it would sell if it was priced high enough.Coding Snack?

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Re: Online "generators"
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2005, 01:11 PM »
yep that computer science paper generator is hillarious.

"generative programming" is actually a hot topic in computer science.  see http://www.amazon.co.../product/0201309777/ for example.

but its a very funny idea to make a random shareware programs.. definitely something to think about.. :)