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A little late, but at least it's still November: I'm linking to the NaNoWriMo Random Data Output Generator. If I was more clever and less exhausted I would've dreamed up a clever acronym or slick-sounding name for the thing. I'm not calling it NaNoWriMoRaDaOuGen, as that sounds more like an attempt to recap the Battle of the Bulge using voice-generated sound effects.
Still, here's whatever this stoopid thing does: It creates names for random cities, company names, drugs, Harry Potter books, superheroes, universities, and Wu-Tang Clan members. It also makes semi-plausible and barely-technically-correct haikus and US postal addresses. It can create random-esque names for American men or women, and it can create them with their frequency dependent on their occurrence in the 1990 US Census -- so that a "Bob Smith" is more likely to occur than a "LaDainian Tomlinson," for example.
Also generates "mission names," the random-adjective/random-noun combos I adore so dearly, like Operation Boring Deflation or Operation Degenerate Sucker.
Am taking suggestions for more. Especially for youNaNoers (God, that just looks obnoxious, I can't imagine saying it aloud) people writing your novels now -- what do you wish you had at your disposal?
Still, here's whatever this stoopid thing does: It creates names for random cities, company names, drugs, Harry Potter books, superheroes, universities, and Wu-Tang Clan members. It also makes semi-plausible and barely-technically-correct haikus and US postal addresses. It can create random-esque names for American men or women, and it can create them with their frequency dependent on their occurrence in the 1990 US Census -- so that a "Bob Smith" is more likely to occur than a "LaDainian Tomlinson," for example.
Also generates "mission names," the random-adjective/random-noun combos I adore so dearly, like Operation Boring Deflation or Operation Degenerate Sucker.
Am taking suggestions for more. Especially for you
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I actually did it one year but the last two years I didn't. And the first year, I ended up writing 25,000 words in the last two days (amazing stamina, that. Thank God for Thanksgiving break.)
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I wonder what I could use 10,000 sets of bogus registration info for... I think I'll call it "Operation Furious Discharge". :D
The Haiku generator is especially impressive. How did you make it follow grammatical conventions?
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Done. It was already in there, so enabling it in the form was a breeze.
Are you looking for a particular combo -- name, e-mail, address, phone number, something like that?
And the haikus actually cheat a bit. I think if you ferret through the data file, you'll be able to see how it's put together pretty easily. It's nowhere near as intelligent or as diverse as it looks, I'm afraid. But it's servicable.
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The haiku program is still very clever - I see that you classified each of the parts of speech by their number of syllables, so that the haiku always comes out right. Perhaps that says more about the true degree of intelligence in human speakers than that present in the haiku program....