un générateur d’essais postmodernes
En anglais, ce générateur d’essais postmodernes vous amusera et vous étonnera certainement (l’adresse http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/pomo affiche un essai produit automatiquement, puis propose des explications). Le moteur de ce générateur est quant à lui présenté à http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/
« The essay you [will read] is completely meaningless and was randomly generated by the Postmodernism Generator. To generate another essay, follow this link. If you liked this particular essay and would like to return to it, follow this link for a bookmarkable page.
The Postmodernism Generator was written by Andrew C. Bulhak using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text from recursive grammars, and modified very slightly by Josh Larios (this version, anyway. There are others out there).
This installation of the Generator has delivered 2794062 essays since 25/Feb/2000 18:43:09 PST, when it became operational. It is being served from a machine in Seattle, Washington, USA.
More detailed technical information may be found in Monash University Department of Computer Science Technical Report 96/264: On the Simulation of Postmodernism and Mental Debility Using Recursive Transition Networks. An on-line copy is available from Monash University.
