MeFi Projects

For absolutely no reason, I have transcribed all the questions, answers and blanks of all 119 episodes of "Match Game '73." (Except for the 3 that are missing.) Just the questions and answers, and nothing more. The early episodes are interesting of course, because the show hadn't yet found its footing. Brett Somers didn't make an appearance until episode 11, and she was on the bottom tier! As someone who really likes the 4th-grade-level wordplay of the show, this gives me a big laugh. If there's more interest here or elsewhere, I'll start soon on '74.
posted by Melismata on Jun 12, 2020 - 1 comment

TauntBot is an exercise in generated language. It uses a rather huge and growing corpus of hand-selected words, and an interesting set of rules, for hand-crafting them into verbose insults. It then posts these to Twitter. It replies to people, I'm hoping to get it to trade barbs with them. Yes, I'm a terrible person. Now, with that out of the way... [more inside]
posted by ephemerae on Sep 30, 2015 - 20 comments

Derange.it is an online anagram generator with animation effects, asynchronous processing, permalinks, and integrated share functions. [more inside]
posted by quarantine on Aug 5, 2013 - 2 comments

ManyLittleApps aggregates seven (and counting) web apps for website design, graphics design, and wordplay. [more inside]
posted by quarantine on Feb 21, 2013 - 2 comments

I get bored waiting for others to take their turns in Words With Friends, and sometimes these little poems jump out at me. [more inside]
posted by mikepop on Sep 1, 2011 - 1 comment