Projects posts tagged with text

carver

raisindebt — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:18:30 -0800

A web app for editing sentences and paragraphs. Paste your text in and click the "edit" button to prepare it for editing (line breaks will be retained, rich text formatting won't). Use the keyboard navigation shortcuts to move back and forth between individual sentences (click them to edit them). Use the mode shift shortcut to zoom out and edit on the paragraph level (the paragraph level view is also a good place to add or delete sentences). Use the document view shortcut to zoom out further and view your changes in the context of the entire text or to copy the text for publishing/saving (use the mode shift shortcut in this mode to change text formatting). Use the menu shortcut to return to the menu and paste in a new text for editing. As you edit, carver automatically saves a backup of your text to your browser's localStorage in case of browser crashes or accidental closing; when you come back to the app after editing a text, you'll be asked whether you want to return to the text you were working on or erase it and work on a new one. Tested in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on Windows 7 and Mountain Lion.

POWER VOCAB TWEET

aparrish — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:19:57 -0800

Boost your vocabulary with these fiercely plausible words and definitions. Every two hours, a randomly generated word is posted to this account along with a randomly generated definition. It's the "Word A Day" Twitter account Marco Polo might have described to Kubla Khan. More information and technical details.

gifwriter

raisindebt — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:09:06 -0800

A distracting online writing tool Instead of a distraction-free text editor, here is a simple writing environment that offers you one distraction (in the form of a massive background animation) from your writing, with the idea that some distractions might be more conducive to thought and imagination than others. With playlists of carefully selected background .gifs and the ability to load your own. May be of no use whatsoever to actual writers. Made as a test project while starting to learn CSS and Javascript. Works in Chrome/Firefox/Safari, but not in IE.

Lexcavator

aparrish — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:15:12 -0800

Lexcavator is an arcade/word game for Mac, PC, and Linux. The goal: guide your guy (@) deeper into an infinite of letters by clearing words from the board! Multiple game modes, detailed record-keeping, online global leaderboards—there's something here for everybody! Pay what you want (even $0, if you are so inclined). Here's the trailer. You can also download the soundtrack from Bandcamp. I've been working on the game for the past year or so. The goal was to make a fast-paced word game that rewards wits and tactics, but doesn't rely on having memorized every three-letter Scrabble word. Internally, the game uses n-gram analysis and Markov chains to ensure that the board is always filled with meaty, satisfying words. One reviewer called it "Words With Friends as an action game," and I am not going to argue with that characterization. The game was programmed entirely in Python (using the excellent processing.py framework).

Minecraft Ebooks

aparrish — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:10:33 -0800

A Minecraft-themed parody of @horse_ebooks.

iKaddsh for Steve Jobs

lipsum — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:04:41 -0800

Kaddish is the Hebrew prayer for the dead. Allen Ginsberg's Kaddish for Naomi is a thousand line poem in free verse post modern style. iKaddsh is a mashup on both, dedicated to the memory of Steve Jobs. The mashup also uses materials from Ginsberg's Howl, T.S. Eliot and some independent free-verse of my own. Published under Creative Commons, so anyone can publicly pray. Enjoy.

Cryptozookeeper

Ice Cream Jonsey — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:10:11 -0800

I spent five years making a graphical text adventure about cryptozoology. I cast actors*, created and photographed cryptids and (leveraging the magic of Creative Commons) listened to hundreds of hours of music until I had a 70-song soundtrack. I visited New Mexico twice to shoot on location and tried to make it as funny as possible -- as if Magnetic Scrolls were coming back any day now. It's called Cryptozookeeper, and while you can buy a two-disc pack, it's also available to download, in whole and for free, for Windows, Linux and OS X. (Info on the Linux and OS X interpreters is here.) *Well, "cast actors" or "convinced my photogenic friends to be in it," you know how it goes.

Listje - Quick, easy-to-use, text entry list app

thumpasor — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:55:02 -0800

I put this project together because I was really frustrated with having to make shopping lists by entering items one by one. With Listje, you can type in a plaintext list with many rows (or paste it in from a document). The list will be converted to an interactive checklist, and there's save functionality so you can retrieve it later if you like, perhaps from your phone, via the URL. A simple tap checks off items, and you can easily hide them from the view. There's functionality to go back and forth between the edit view and the list view for later editing, and you can also add in headers to organize your list. Enjoy! I'd love any comments and will consider them for the next version.

Filthy Ditty: Daily text experiments in April 2011

aparrish — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:35:41 -0800

Nominally in celebration of National Poetry Month, I challenged myself to make one experimental text a day in April 2011. It was a lot of fun, and I wanted to share the results with my fellow mefites. I thought these experiments in particular might be of interest: blackout poems made from Magic: the Gathering cards; dithered bitmaps of the average Unicode character; a Chrome extension that randomly scrambles the poetry "subjects" on poetryfoundation.org; and Nintendo ROMs with words replaced at random (Faxanadu, in particular---with video!). A few more of my favorites: generating new characters from a Markov chain model of pixel columns; LUCKY, a word-based card game prototype; exploded letterforms made with cellular automata; and famous poems mashed up with foursquare venue tips ("Forgive me / they were delicious too! / so sweet and accommodating. / and so cold medicine). Here's a loosely categorized list of all thirty experiments.

The Ransomizer

melvix — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:39:55 -0800

It's a ransom note generator with some CSS widgetry.

The Writings of Daniil Kharms

tmcw — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:48:54 -0800

It's quite simple - a nicely-formatted archive of the great absurd poetry of Daniil Kharms.

Randomly generated resolutions for 2011

aparrish — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:08:30 -0800

Click and click again to generate random new years resolutions for 2011, based on a corpus of tweets collected yesterday and today. Sometimes nonsensical, sometimes absurd, sometimes even plausible. "Be more dedicated to achieve. It avoids disappointment. which means you'll have to be." (potentially NSFW) Methodology: I collected around 50k tweets with the word "resolution" in them, and did some basic text processing to extract text that looked like resolutions (in the form of "my resolution is to" and "my resolution:"). There's a Markov chain-based text generation algorithm (similar to Travesty or the defunct Markovfilter), which analyzes the tweets and outputs statistically similar text. Enjoy!

Interactive Text Adventure for your Kindle/E-Book

edman — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:35:10 -0800

Many people cut their teeth on the imagination fueled text adventures games released by Infocom back in the eighties. Whispernet combined with the handy keyboard and the limiting browser made the Kindle perfect for a text-based adventures. We programmed an interface specifically for the Kindle that lets you play a handful of the Zork-like adventures that we spent many of hours of our youth. Save game is supported so you can come back at a later time without restarting. Let us know what you think and how we can improve it!

Fuck Lorem Ipsum

davelog — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:38:16 -0800

In my line of work, I have to do a lot of html mockups of website designs. I've been using Malevole's text generator instead of Lorem Ipsum boilerplate for years, but always yearned for a more feature-rich version - one that could insert tags and filter the sources of dummy text. I finally got around to making my own. Currently there are about 80 snippets from various retro TV show jingles, commercials, and voice-overs. My goal is to get that bank of fragments up to a few hundred, possibly pulling from iconic song lyrics and/or literature as well.