Alan Sokal, an NYU physics professor, submitted a bogus article to the journal Social Text to answer the age-old question: “Would a leading North American journal of cultural studies publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors’ ideological preconceptions?” The answer, unfortunately, is yes. Sokal’s [...]
SCIgen is a program which generates random computer science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. Generate your own, and be sure to read the story about one such paper being accepted to the World Multiconference on Systemic, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2005. SCIgen
Here’s a thorough explanation of quines (programs which print their own source code). Quines
Containing eleven custom-built circuit boards, a twelve-story data network, a personal computer running Linux, a radio-frequency video game controller, and over 10,000 Christmas lights, TechHouse transformed Brown University’s fourteen-story Sciences Library into a giant video display which allowed bystanders to play a game of Tetris which could be seen for several miles.
HotBits provides genuine random numbers by timing the radioactive decay of a chunk of cesium-137.
