TITLE Man Fakes de Minimax
META Description The Eater of Meaning is a set of Python classes for extracting the message from the medium.
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<h1>The Eater of Meaning</h1>

<p>The Eater of Meaning is a tool for extracting the message from
the medium. Format and presentation are unaffected, but words and
letters are subjected to an elaborate nonsensification progress that
eliminates semantics root and branch.

<h2>Try it out</h2>

<form action="eater.cgi">
<table>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="right"><b>URL to eat:</b></td>
<td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="url-EoM" value="http://www.crummy.com/links.html" size="50"></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" align="right"><b>Mode:</b></td>
<td>
 <select name="eat-EoM">
 <option value="words">Eat words</option>
 <option value="endings" selected="selected">Eat word endings</option>
 <option value="characters">Eat characters</option>
 <option value="replacing">Eat in Latin</option>
 </select>
</td>
<td align="right"><input type="submit" value="Eat"></td>
</tr>
</table>
  </form>

<p>Want more ways to eat? Try the <a href="eater.cgi">advanced form</a>.

<p>Note: To save other people's bandwidth and my own CPU, I've
instituted a per-page cache which is invalidated every 10 minutes. <a
href="mailto:weasels-ate-my-meaning@crummy.com">Let me know</a> if
you run into any problems.

<h2>Screenshots</h2>

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<tr>
<td>
 <a href="/software/eater/graphics/screenshot-cnn.png">
  <img src="/software/eater/graphics/screenshot-cnn-thumb.png">
 </a>
</td>
<td>
 <a href="/software/eater/graphics/screenshot-bbc.png">
  <img src="/software/eater/graphics/screenshot-bbc-thumb.png">
 </a>
</td>
<td>
 <a href="/software/eater/graphics/screenshot-google.png">
  <img src="/software/eater/graphics/screenshot-google-thumb.png">
 </a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>It eats the news.</td>
 <td>It eats more news!</td>
 <td>Who will dare stand against it?</td>
</tr>

<tr>
 <td>
  <a href="/software/eater/graphics/screenshot-crummy.png">
   <img src="/software/eater/graphics/screenshot-crummy-thumb.png">
  </a>
 </td>
 <td>
  <a href="/software/eater/graphics/screenshot-eater.png">
   <img src="/software/eater/graphics/screenshot-eater-thumb.png">
  </a>
 </td>
 <td>
  <a href="/software/eater/graphics/screenshot-kevan.png">
   <img src="/software/eater/graphics/screenshot-kevan-thumb.png">
  </a>
 </td>
</tr>

<tr>
 <td>It turns on its creator!</td>
 <td>It spares no one!</td>
 <td><b>Your</b> blog could be next!</td>
</tr>
</table>

<h2>Press</h2>

<ul>
<li><A
href="http://www.maccessibility.com/archive/000543.php">Maccessibility</a>
has an article on using TEoM as an accessibility tool.</li>

<li>TEoM was mentioned in the "Weird Wide Web" section of <a
href="http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030508/">Brian's Buzz
Newsletter</a></li>

<li>TEoM was also mentioned in <a
href="http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?b=02003-05-09&l=320#l">Need To
Know</a>.</li>

</ul>

<h2>About TEoM</h2>

<p>You can <a href="eater-1.5.tar.gz">download</a> The Eater of
Meaning and run it from the command line or as a CGI.</p>

<p>TEoM is written in Python. It requires Python 1.5 or greater, and
its unit tests require Python 2.1 or greater. It is made available
under the GNU General Public License.</p>