Saturday, March 09, 2002

I love the random text generators that you can find online--for example, the Web Economy Bullshit Generator. When you go to this site, you hit a submit button (the "make bullshit" button) and then receive short, random phrases that sound like MBA-speak from the late 90s (i.e., before the dotcom crash). Some examples:

synergize extensible mindshare
leverage bricks-and-clicks partnerships
productize e-business convergence
synergize out-of-the-box networks
exploit cross-media communities
transform one-to-one bandwidth
scale world-class applications
expedite granular portals

And on and on. You get the idea....

Another entertaining one is the Genuine Haiku Generator. It's an artificial intelligence program that generates random haiku poetry. The results are often nonsensical, but they sometimes make an odd sort of sense if you think about them long enough. Examples:

boatmen pinch, dumb mouse
snapping, innocuous plough
riding, rejoicing

stale magic heron
rides rides, squelching
glumly, bunglingly

malicious fruit squirms,
piercing harp stampeding, doves
extrude, proudly soft

Have fun.

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