We Can Build You
http://homophoner.yacomink.com/ - replaces text with homophones, where possible. limited dictionary.
http://www.random-generator.com/index.php?title=Main_Page - Abulafia, wiki-based random generators, mostly for fantasy RPG uses
http://nine.frenchboys.net/novel.php - Fantasy Novel Title Generator
http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html - Web Economy Bullshit Generator
http://emptybottle.org/bullshit/ - Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator
http://thesurrealist.co.uk/feedback - EBay feedback generator
http://www.bradsucks.net/archives/2004/08/20/text-generators/
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ - generate random Computer Science Papers
http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo - Postmodern(ism) Essay Generator
http://www.random-generator.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://www.zieak.com/2007/01/17/eliminate-extra-exclamation-points/ - Grease Monkey? script to eliminate excessive !!!s; not a generator, but a ... ???
http://www.euph0r1a.net/mesostomatic/ - Mesostic generator
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/foggy.lsp - Common Lisp code for Noam Chomsky?-like maunderings
http://jonphilpott.blogspot.com/2006/06/no-more-lorem-ipsum.html - Emacs’ zippy-like Lorem Ipsum replacement
http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-tools/the-waffle-generator/
http://norvig.com/palindrome.html - computer-generation of palindromes
http://ambigram.matic.com/ambigram.htm - ambigrams (words or phrases that can be read in more than one way or from more than a single vantage point) found via MetaFilter
http://www.revfad.com/flip.html - upside unicode flipping
Chains of Love — Markov text manipulation & generation
Generations of Jokes
so that generations will revile you
http://grok-code.com/12/how-to-write-original-jokes-or-have-a-computer-do-it-for-you/ - using Common Lisp
http://thesurrealist.co.uk/joke
http://www.brunching.com/barjoke.html
http://www.leonatkinson.com/random/index.php/jokes.html - (manual refresh to see new jokes)
random performance artist jokes
Ascii art/figlet creation
http://www.network-science.de/ascii/
http://www.kammerl.de/ascii/AsciiSignature.php
http://www.text-image.com/convert/
http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/asciitext.shtml
http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/
See Also: Ascii Art
Other image-texts
http://wigflip.com/minifesto/ - multi-panel animated gif texts like Autological Remix Theory
A Question of limits
Isn’t using a generator an automated form of constrained writing? You are limited to either the built-in tables/database/sources of the generator, or whatever source-text you feed in (to a Markov alayzer/generator, for example).
I remember playing with some algorithmic music composition software, where I set up some monophonic plain-chant lines as the input, then tweaked the rules. hours and hours of unique chanting resulted.
See Also
Automatic for the People
XraysMonaLisa.Recombinant
Tags
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