So, last night I wrote a lit­tle Python script to grab a ran­dom entry from a ran­dom Live­Jour­nal page.  Pretty wacky!  The whole thing becomes absolutely sur­real when every­thing is taken out of con­text.  The returned entry is not sur­rounded by adjoin­ing entries.  It is black and white, plaintext–no color, no styles, noth­ing per­sonal, except for the text itself.

The results can be dis­played in a web­page, with min­i­mal for­mat­ting (basi­cally bold, italic, and links–nothing else).  The results can also be dis­played at a com­mand prompt, as plain­text.  Addi­tion­ally, they can be piped into other programs…various X Win­dows screen­savers (star­wars, phos­phor, etc.).

I would post the link here, but I think it would over­load my site, then the Live­Jour­nal site.  Maybe I will post a link to the source code–or heck, maybe even the com­plete source code itself.  It is not much more than a cou­ple of 24-line screens.

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