Infocult: Uncanny Informatics

Try the Lovecraft Evil-O-Matic!

Now you, too, can generate Lovecratian prose! Simply visit the Lovecraft Evil-O-Matic, which coughs up randomly HPL-ish gems like:

Faceless groping pox.

Boundless masticating pool.

Jaundiced suffocating nightmare.

The -Matic's creator then applied his work to political prose, like so:

To show you how it works, I've juiced up President Obama's statement from last week on the organization is still calling ISIL.

The eldritch nauseating cancer speaks for no religion. The endless mutating fungus's victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches hideous skulking weasels to massacre innocents. No just God would stand for what the gelatinous revolting worms did yesterday, and for what they do every single day. The faceless dissolving plague has no ideology of any value to human beings...

Infocult: always read to play in a boundless masticating pool.

(via Charles Cameron on Twitter)

Time for Don't Hug Me

A new Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared video is out, and concerns time. Watch the cheery music and feel the passage of time:

If you haven't seen their work, check out "Be Creative", their first offering.

(thanks to Infocult's Gwynneth)

Accidental Google Glass art

A Twitter image update produces an accidentally satirical error:

Here is the intended image, which is pretty funny.

(via Jesse Walker)

Listen to the hacked zombie alert

Following up on that story about a zombie emergency alert prank, an audio file is now available for your listening pleasure.

Consider this fine fodder for parties and music sampling.

(thanks to Thomas Burkdall)

Anime historical horror

A group of anime artists got together to ask a question nobody should ponder: what would 20th-century dictators look like if imagined as anime heroines?  

The responses are eye-mangling, like this Pol Pot:

It's as if they read Hetalia and decided it wasn't disturbing enough.  Think chibi fascism.

My Little Pony, my Saw

Today's Gothic mashup, or a Brony gone bad:

If the image makes no sense to you, it's the My Little Pony universe crossed with the world of Saw.

(thanks to Steven Kaye)

Darth Kitty

This is how the world ends:

(via Braddlee's Twitter)

Giant Legos wash ashore

A giant Lego-like statue has been invading world beaches.  It appeared in Florida - of course - most recently:

No severed feet, you will note.

(thanks to Thomas Burkdall, Occidental College)

Sometimes economics is witchcraft

Gothic macroeconomics, continued: if the US economy is better off than it might have been, thank some Romanian witches for their benevolent intervention.

It's a cute short story, for a painting sold on Etsy.

...Dressed in their purple ceremonial garbs that shield them from evil, the three set up their cauldron in the middle of the Capitol rotunda and proceeded to boil up a powerful brew consisting of swamp water from Foggy Bottom, dried Russian moles, soiled congressional laundry and old bones from long-forgotten skeletons secreted away in legislators’closets. ...

(thanks to Jesse "Babushka" Walker)

A Gothic programming language

It's time for a new programming language, and obviously we need a Gothic-themed one.  Behold ZOMBIE!

That's Zombie-Oriented Machine-Being Interface Engine, an "inherently evil" platform.

A sample bit of documentation:

ZOMBIE runs in a multithreaded environment. Several entities may be animated at once, and each may perform multiple tasks at once. The relative speeds and orders in which the entities perform tasks is undefined, and should not be relied on by the programmer.

Entities and their tasks may be active or inactive. An active entity is one which has been animated, disturbed, or is free-willed. A zombie or ghost that has been summoned and bound is inactive. An active task is one that has been animated; an inactive task is one that has been bound, or that the entity has completed.

(via Dethe Elza)