Posted on - May 29, 2015 [at] 8:18 am by Brad
Tagged in - project, twitter, vice
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I’ve been horsing around with Markov chains with the idea of developing some songwriting tools. One of my experiments seemed funny enough to make into its own Twitter bot. It mashes up VICE headlines into strange new ones. Some examples:
If this is something you need in your life, you can follow it here.
Here’s the final video for the Fake It Video Project:
Thanks to everyone who contributed! Also big thanks to Allen for editing it all together.
I’ve been jealous of Gimme Some Candy for a long time. I’ve hassled them to let me in but they’re not accepting new artists. It’s a great idea — a tip jar with benefits. Supporters can buy items and leave a little message that gets displayed on the artist’s homepage.
So I’ve written and released an open source clone that’s pretty easy to set up. It’s called Gimme Some Money. The default items are a star, heart and cookie but they can be swapped out. You can see mine (using the default icons) over on the right sidebar.
Requirements: PHP 4+/MySQL & a Paypal account
Update: fixed an IE/Opera bug and updated it to v0.86 (thanks to jason for pointing out the bug).