myth's livejournal!

Make: Blog put up a post this morning about APxD (Autonomous Parapoetic Device) (my project that was in the Spring show)! To be fair, they put up posts about pretty much every other damn project in the show too. But I'm still pretty excited.

1. ITP Thesis Title Generator. I fed three or four years of ITP thesis titles into a Markov chain algorithm. The resulting strings are often evocatively nonsensical (Interface Memories in L-systems), sometimes remotely viable as actual thesis titles (The Massively Multidisciplinary Connectional Aesthetics), and, very occasionally, something I feel like I could get VC funding for (Sousveillance for Children).

2. twitter.com/everyword, where a python script I wrote is posting every word from an extensive English word list. At the current rate (1 word every 30 minutes), the script should complete its task in a little over six years. (Inspiration: Ulysses, Bloomsday.)

MarkovFilter: a generative tool for analysing an individual's personality/priorities/obsessions by feeding his or her MetaFilter comments through a Markov Chain. An excerpt from my MarkovFilter page:

Metroid Prime. It's like Pale Fire, and everyone's Kinbote! Seems like a cross between a sex toy and a copy of Final Fantasy: Dawn of Souls. See if that does it for you. The only other thing I can cross the street? That would be nice. It says in this area, so I just wanted to point out some really great efforts in language construction that aren't associated with a few built-in niceties.