MeFi Projects

My first Twitter bot! I made a bot that randomly tweets entries from Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk Literature. It's intended for divination and creative problem solving, along the lines of Oblique Strategies. [more inside]
posted by overeducated_alligator on Aug 9, 2017 - 0 comments

@BardVs45 uses the 1990s era Shakespearean insult generator to respond to tweets from Trump. [more inside]
posted by polymath on Mar 9, 2017 - 1 comment

Eeeeeeey it's a twitter bot that takes two of my photos (selected from twitter, instagram, and the dark cave of my hard drive) and mashes them together. Want to do it yourself? Here's the source code.
posted by smasuch on Mar 3, 2017 - 5 comments

It's a pair of Twitter bots: Pokémon in the NYPL, which sends Pokémon into the depths of the New York Public Library Digital Collections, and Pokémon in Space!, which uses the Astronomy Picture of the Day as a guide for Pokémon space exploration. [more inside]
posted by ignignokt on Jul 17, 2016 - 0 comments

Doo doo doo! This is Link finding things on the web and holding them up for you to see, as he does! Except he's doing it on Twitter instead of your NES, which doesn't even work unless you hold in the cartridge a certain way.
posted by ignignokt on May 6, 2016 - 8 comments

This bot fills out the "___ in the street but a ___ in the sheets" snowclone (originating from "a lady in the street but a freak in the sheets") in various different ways.
posted by ignignokt on Feb 20, 2016 - 9 comments

A Twitterbot showcasing exciting adventures in DUNSÖNs & DRAGGANs 1st Edition - a fantastical/Scandinavian world of monsters, treasure, good value furniture, and stylish storage solutions. Enter if you dare! Also can you pick up some bag clips for me? And some meatballs. And grab one of those cool lamps. Ages 12 and up. Requires 20-sided hex wrench (included). [more inside]
posted by EndsOfInvention on Feb 18, 2016 - 4 comments

@goddamn_factbot delivers you facts, wrapped in some consarn curses, because that's the goddamn way you want to hear them! [more inside]
posted by ignignokt on Dec 30, 2015 - 4 comments

Metroid Baby, EndsOfInvention, and I have put together @contingencymsgs, a Twitter bot that alerts you about various fictional emergency situations.
posted by ignignokt on Nov 30, 2015 - 5 comments

I put together a website dedicated to my all-time favorite game, Otherfoot (mentioned previously in my 2006 FPP about ink-and-paper games). Otherfoot is a card game, played with a newly-created homemade deck every time. Gameplay is similar to Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity (pre-dating the latter), with key differences laid out in the FAQ (and reposted below). The game concept was developed by friends of my brother, and I've derived a lot of joy from playing Otherfoot with old and new friends for more than 10 years. [more inside]
posted by duffell on Nov 12, 2015 - 2 comments

Here is a twitter bot with random emoji followed by the 💨 emoji, which of course is totally a fart cloud. [more inside]
posted by Metroid Baby on Nov 4, 2015 - 1 comment

A Twitter bot based on quotes from the character "Frau Blücher" in Mel Brook's 1974 comedy, Young Frankenstein. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Sep 30, 2015 - 5 comments

A trio of parenting-related Twitter bots: @FakeMomAdvice, @FakePregAdvice, and @TrendyNames. [more inside]
posted by Metroid Baby on Sep 24, 2015 - 0 comments

A Twitter bot that randomly generates tiny space stories. [more inside]
posted by EndsOfInvention on Sep 1, 2015 - 13 comments

This bot creates knock knock jokes by hitting up autocomplete on Google. This is perhaps the dumbest bot of all time. And yet! I am compelled to share amazing jokes like these.
posted by ignignokt on Jul 21, 2015 - 4 comments

Are you alarmed about these new snake people? No?! You should be! So, here's a bot that gathers news about their doings for you. [more inside]
posted by ignignokt on May 19, 2015 - 5 comments

@INTERESTING_JPG is a twitter bot that takes news photographs and runs them through a computer-vision caption generating system. [more inside]
posted by cmyr on Jan 26, 2015 - 5 comments

@autocompleterap is a Twitter bot that combines rap lyrics (from ohhla - scraping courtesy of @beaugunderson) and Google search autocomplete suggestions. [more inside]
posted by ignignokt on Jan 14, 2015 - 2 comments

A Twitter bot that posts tributes to befitting each god! Banner by Metroid Baby. [more inside]
posted by ignignokt on Jul 1, 2014 - 3 comments