Machine Poetics

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Typealyzer
ooh, that's kind of weird.
Write or Die : Dr Wicked's Writing Lab
Start typing in the box. As long as you keep typing, you're fine, but once you stop typing..
American Mutoscope
Mutoscope International Movie Viewer reels machine arcade peep show coin operated
Animated Poetry Readings
by poetryanimations
SMOG Calculator
SMOG (Simple Measure of Gobbledygook) is a formula for measuring grade level of a text. The Calculator also tells you other things such as the number of words, letters, and sentences.
Parchment: A New Web-Based Z-Code Interpreter
doesn't require Java or Flash
Firehose - Realtime Twitter Timeline
Untitled 1 - Boing Boing
What if a malfunctioning voicemail system had a debate with twitter over minimalism? Now we know.
Steven Poole: Free your mind
Thoughts about the professional writer in an age of post-mechanical reproduction.
people name generator
names generated from the 1990 census

Text Adventures
Play classic adventure games online (in Java)

The first computer adventure game: Colossal Cave
(”In memoriam, Stephan Bishop 1820-1857″)

More about the original caves and the origin of the Colossal Cave game, in the Inform designer manual

Interactive Fiction

Guides and overviews:

2005 Nov 23 |

Machine Poetics » Thanksgiving Eve Organizational Frenzy says
[...] Information Overload Just in time for your tryptophan induced stupor, I compiled information about all the stuff we talked about last week: the Sony rootkit, text adventures, and chatterbots. Note the corresponding posts below. Click on the (more…) Drink in the sweet sweet knowledge. [...]

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