With all of the talk recently of recursively-settled agoric market spaces, multidimensional geodesic actor systems, and other jargon-heavy marketbuzz, I've made up a little table of recommended names. Someone could make a little Perl or Python script to let the computers do all the work. The idea is to take a couple of sexy terms from Columns 1 and 2 and apply them to a noun from Column 3. Care should be taken to use terms which evoke images from relativity, quantum mechanics, artificial life, and other trendy areas. Anything that triggers images from "Star Trek" is good. Here it goes: Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Distributed Fractal Market Geodesic Coaseian Ecosystem Holographic Geodesic Space Multiply-connected Biometric Ecology Least Action Parameterized Continuum Recursively-settled Holographic Cyberspace Fractal Multidimensional Bazaar Bionomic Distributed Hyperspace Agoric Auction Topology Best of breed Metric Metaverse Dark Fiber Anarchic Arena Open-system Quantized Manifold Anarcho-topological Hayekian Actor system Examples of usage: "Digital Datawhack is premised on the principle of creating distributed biometric agoric arenas." "The Von Mises Corporation is the dominant player in deploying recursively-settled holographic actor systems. It is our goal to make agoric, open-system market topologies the bionomic norm." "Fractalbucks are the unit of currency in the Hayekworld bazaar-type open Coaseian system. We believe it to be best of breed in the dark fiber geodesic market space." Glad to be of help. --Tim May, Aptical Foddering Marketspace V.P. -- (This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the election debacle unfolds, it is time to prepare a new one. Stay tuned.)
Here you go: http://www.mccullagh.org/cgi-bin/jargonizer.cgi -Declan At 10:08 12/12/2000 -0800, Tim May wrote:
With all of the talk recently of recursively-settled agoric market spaces, multidimensional geodesic actor systems, and other jargon-heavy marketbuzz, I've made up a little table of recommended names.
Someone could make a little Perl or Python script to let the computers do all the work.
The idea is to take a couple of sexy terms from Columns 1 and 2 and apply them to a noun from Column 3. Care should be taken to use terms which evoke images from relativity, quantum mechanics, artificial life, and other trendy areas. Anything that triggers images from "Star Trek" is good.
Here it goes:
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Distributed Fractal Market
Geodesic Coaseian Ecosystem
Holographic Geodesic Space
Multiply-connected Biometric Ecology
Least Action Parameterized Continuum
Recursively-settled Holographic Cyberspace
Fractal Multidimensional Bazaar
Bionomic Distributed Hyperspace
Agoric Auction Topology
Best of breed Metric Metaverse
Dark Fiber Anarchic Arena
Open-system Quantized Manifold
Anarcho-topological Hayekian Actor system
Examples of usage:
"Digital Datawhack is premised on the principle of creating distributed biometric agoric arenas."
"The Von Mises Corporation is the dominant player in deploying recursively-settled holographic actor systems. It is our goal to make agoric, open-system market topologies the bionomic norm."
"Fractalbucks are the unit of currency in the Hayekworld bazaar-type open Coaseian system. We believe it to be best of breed in the dark fiber geodesic market space."
Glad to be of help.
--Tim May, Aptical Foddering Marketspace V.P.
-- (This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the election debacle unfolds, it is time to prepare a new one. Stay tuned.)
At 4:04 PM -0500 on 12/12/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Great. Now all we need is one of those translators, like the one that turns text into something the Muppet's Swedish Chef would say... :-). Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
I've got an idea! How about one that would make text look like it was spoken by a Canadian!?! -Declan At 16:25 12/12/2000 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 4:04 PM -0500 on 12/12/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Great.
Now all we need is one of those translators, like the one that turns text into something the Muppet's Swedish Chef would say...
:-).
Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote:
I've got an idea! How about one that would make text look like it was spoken by a Canadian!?!
Better yet -- John Young. ]:> alan@ctrl-alt-del.com | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."
At 4:29 PM -0500 on 12/12/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
I've got an idea! How about one that would make text look like it was spoken by a Canadian!?!
:-). Ooo! Oooo! A canadian *cryptographer*!!! <SouthPark-KylesMom> Bomb Canada...</S-K> (Yes, I get the joke, and consider myself properly spanked. I'll go see *myself* how the Swedish Chef thing works. It can't be that hard, right?) Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
At 4:43 PM -0500 on 12/12/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
(Yes, I get the joke, and consider myself properly spanked. I'll go see *myself* how the Swedish Chef thing works. It can't be that hard, right?)
From the Mac source (Chef 1.1) I found on info-mac, the Swedish Chef one's
As Senior Wences(sp?) used to say, "Eeesy for jou to say, for me, ees deeficult!) Okay, so it does searches and replaces on *characters* and doesn't just insert buzz words per se, which means, like the website of the same name says, it does dialectizing, and not jargon per se. pretty simple, with just a few character substitution rules. The hardest one I found, from a quick perusal in Google, is Cockney, with something like 600 rules, which I haven't actually looked at, yet. Creating text which sounds like me -- much less John Young -- may (or may not :-)) be "eesy". Though, it does remind me of the concordance text-biometric stuff people around here used to fool around with to identify anonymous cypherpunk messages from, um, various cranks... :-). Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
At 04:29 PM 12/12/00 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
I've got an idea! How about one that would make text look like it was spoken by a Canadian!?!
Now all we need is one of those translators, like the one that turns text into something the Muppet's Swedish Chef would say...
Odd - I've been receiving these in random order. Blame Canada, I guess. In case nobody's mentioned it, one of the predecessors to http://www.anonymizer.com/ was "The Great Web Canadianizer", which, y'know', turned web pages into mock Canadian, eh? At least the Saturday Night Live Frozen North version, eh? So you'cd have some brews n donuts while getting your web pages translated outa yankee and hidin where they come from, eh? It's also useful for dealing with the US crypto export laws. Let P and Q be big primes, eh? Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
At 04:04 PM 12/12/00 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Here you go:
Nifty hack, Declan!
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