Funny Markov Chains
Web and Tech
13_ENTRIES- Headline Smasher
Fake headlines created by smashing up real headlines.
- Subreddit Simulator
The most confusing subreddit (often on the front page).
- Alternative Hacker News
Hacker News dataset eats itself.
- Phaker News
Another spin on Hacker News.
- Cybersauce Broadcasting Corporation
A computer generated and dictated podcast.
- Java! Real or Not?
Guess the Spring Framework class name.
- Your Swimsuit Jumped Over Its Own Weathercock, You Liar!
A dating sim about the futility of dating sims.
- The Doom That Came to Puppet
Mutations on Puppet documentation and the assorted works of H. P. Lovecraft.
- King James Programming
Combined King James Bible, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and some of Eric S. Raymond's writings.
- Git man page Generator
Suspiciously believeable (but incorrect) Git documentation.
- Jon Skeet bot
Stack Overflow's homage to their greatest ever user, Jon Skeet.
- StackExchange Simulator
Random question and answers based on the StackOverflow/StackExchange data dumps.
- 4chan Text Generator
With sample inputs for /biz/ /pol/ /b/ /fit/ (NSFW).
- @erowidrecruiter
Erowid trip reports and tech recruiter emails.
- @TwoHeadlines
Takes two headlines about different things and then confuses them.
- @SarowidPalinUSA
Sarah Palin speeches and Erowid trip reports.
- @twatterhose
A mashup of the Twitter public timeline.
- @redditron
Reddit comments.
- @markovmtg
[Magic] Markov the Gathering.
- @HNTitles
HN Titles.
- @BeerSnobSays
Drunk tweeting nonsensical beer reviews.
- @icowid
a markov bot trained on erowid trip reports and ICO whitepapers.
- @hipsterwid
An hipster bot trained on Erowid trip reports and Pitchfork's album reviews.
Media
8_ENTRIES- Calvin and Markov
Calvin and Hobbes strips reimagined.
- Garkov
Transcripts of old Garfield strips.
- The Big Markovski
The Big Lebowski.
- Jesus Markoving Christ
An incoherent savior for an incoherent age.
- XKCD
90's Flowchart.
- Markov Bible
The whole book (archive.org).
- Automatic Donald Trump
Donald Trump's smart keyboard.
- Insta-Trump
create a mathematically generated Trump speech.
Tools
5_ENTRIES- That Can Be My Next Tweet
Generates your future tweets based on the DNA of your existing messages.
- Mark V. Shaney at Your Service
Interactie Markov examples.
- foswig.js
Generate awesome Javascript project names from the popular JavaScript library names on GitHub.
- Benedict Cumberbatch Name Generator
Permutations on the gentleman's names.
- Reimagined Yo Mama
yo mama jokes using markov chains (code only).
A history of funny Markov chains
3_ENTRIES- "I Spent an Interesting Evening Recently with a Grain of Salt"
The Original Prank (archive.org).
- Mark V. Shaney's Website
Mark V. Shaney's finest hours (archive.org).
- Fun With Markov Chains
Featuring "Alice in Elsinore: The Alice books and Hamlet", and "The Revelation of St. Alice: The Alice books, and the books of Genesis and Revelation".
Sober applications
3_ENTRIES- PageRank
Google is built on Markov Chains.
- Digital Music Programming
MIDI Markov music.
- A visual explanation of Markov chains
A useful guide to Markov chains by Victor Powell.