Stuff tagged random generator

• What Will George Osborne Cut Next?

  Here's a cool project. Helping the lovely folks at No Shock Doctrine For Britain to build a random George Osborne "cut generator", called What Will George Cut Today? to highlight the absurdity of the new UK Chancellor's unjust and unnecessary budget cuts.Read More …

  • Posted By: Charlie Harvey
  • 2011-04-27T17:01:06Z
  • Published: 17:01:06 on Wednesday, 27 April

• TwitterHaiku -- A Thing for making haiku from Twitter searches

  TwitterHaiku lets you find a haiku-like tweet. That is to say that it finds 17 syllable tweets from the Twitter search API and formats them so they look like a haiku. I wrote it as an amusing way to respond to a dinner invitation written in verse form which I received from from a certain Penguin. I'm very grateful to Greg Fast for making Lingua::EN::Syllable available on CPAN. It helped me to count syllables relatively reliably. I was also helped by a perlmonks post on approtioning an array almost equally by davido which put me on the right lines for apportioning words between lines.Read More …

  • Posted By: Charlie Harvey
  • 2011-04-02T13:15:00Z
  • Published: 13:15:00 on Saturday, 2 April

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