News You Can Bruise

I bet you didn't know that The Eater of Meaning was fine art. (link via BoogaBooga) Well, maybe you did.

The Eater of Meaning can now eat poetry as well as prose, with the new "chew rhythmically" feature. It replaces each word with another word of the same number of syllables. It rips off Danny O'Brien's haiku finder, which in turn rips off of someone else's syllable counter.

Inspired by Kevan. The stress of the replaced words is often wrong, and sometimes the result just doesn't scan, but it's sufficient for the secret also-Kevan-inspired project for which I wrote it. It works especially well on cadences that have been drummed into your head for years.

Someone's selling a laptop on eBay. Among the "REAL SCREEN SHOTS TAKEN FROM ACTUAL THE COMPUTER YOU WILL BE GETTING!!!!!!!" is the CNN screenshot from the Eater of Meaning (scroll down to "GO ONLINE TO THE INTERNET"). Plus things that aren't even screenshots, just the result of Google Image searches.

Ordinarily I 403 people trying to use Crummy images to spice up their eBay auctions, but I'll make an exception in this case. I guess if you bought this computer, the whole Internet would look eaten to you.