un générateur d’essais postmodernes

En anglais, ce générateur d’essais postmodernes vous amusera et vous étonnera certainement (l’adresse [1] 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 [2] 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 [3] this link. If you liked this particular essay and would like to return to it, follow [4] this link for a bookmarkable page.

The Postmodernism Generator was written by [5] Andrew C. Bulhak using the [6] Dada Engine, a system for generating random text from recursive grammars, and modified very slightly by [7] 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 [8] from Monash University.