The Eater of Meaning

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.

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Note: To save other people's bandwidth and my own CPU, I've instituted a per-page cache which is invalidated every 10 minutes. Let me know if you run into any problems.

Screenshots

It eats the news.	It eats more news!	Who will dare stand against it?
It turns on its creator!	It spares no one!	Your blog could be next!

Press

• Maccessibility has an article on using TEoM as an accessibility tool.
• TEoM was mentioned in the "Weird Wide Web" section of Brian's Buzz Newsletter
• TEoM was also mentioned in Need To Know.

About TEoM

You can download The Eater of Meaning and run it from the command line or as a CGI. It requires a small set of data files.

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.