https://github.com/sebpearce/bullshit

Generates New Age nonsense on the fly
https://github.com/sebpearce/bullshit

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Generates New Age nonsense on the fly

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sebpearce/bullshit
• Owner: sebpearce
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-04-08T04:36:34.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-11-09T11:35:59.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-22T20:31:02.961Z (4 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 1.9 MB
• Stars: 234
• Watchers: 23
• Forks: 44
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

        
New Age Bullshit Generator

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[Live demo](https://sebpearce.com/bullshit)

Does what it says on the tin :)

The main script (`main.js`) relies on two lists of words called `patterns.js`, which is a stock of sentence patterns made up of fixed words and variable words, and `vocab.js`, which contains these variable words.

For example, take this sentence pattern from `patterns.js`:

`This life is nothing short of a ing nOf of adj nMass`

Here there are 4 variable words: `ing`, `nOf`, `adj` and `nMass`.

The script looks inside `vocab.js` for those 4 words. In the case of `ing` (a present participle), it might choose "flowering" or "unveiling." For `nMass` (a mass noun), it might choose "consciousness," "growth" or "stardust."

It then fills each heading and paragraph of the page with a certain number of sentence patterns. Paragraphs get three sentences each, for instance, while each heading gets one.

It avoids duplicate sentences by making a copy of the entire pattern array found in `patterns.js` at the start and removing each sentence as it is used.

The pretty picture comes from [placeimg.com](https://placeimg.com), which generates a random image each time something visits its URL.