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                                Content Forever
                                        
> racter: a History
> 
> The name of the program is short for raconteur. The sophistication claimed
> for the program was likely exaggerated, as could be seen by investigation
> of the template system of text generation.
> 
> Moreover, template processing is sometimes included as a sub-feature of
> software packages like text editors, IDEs and relational database
> management systems.
> 
> …
> 
> The observable universe is one causal patch of a much larger unobservable
> universe; there are parts of the universe that cannot communicate with us
> yet.
> 
> If the universe is finite but unbounded, it is also possible that the
> universe is smaller than the observable universe. In this case, what we
> take to be very distant galaxies may actually be duplicate images of nearby
> galaxies, formed by light that has circumnavigated the universe. It is
> difficult to test this hypothesis experimentally because different images
> of a galaxy would show different eras in its history, and consequently
> might appear quite different. Bielewicz et al. claims to establish a lower
> bound of 27.9 gigaparsecs (91 billion light-years) on the diameter of the
> last scattering surface (since this is only a lower bound, the paper leaves
> open the possibility that the whole universe is much larger, even
> infinite). This value is based on matching-circle analysis of the WMAP 7
> year data.
> 
> …
> 

“racter, a History [1]”

The epitome of the “ooh—shiny” style of writing, Content, Forever [2] (link
via Hacker News [3]) culls Wikipedia [4] for articles starting with a given
topic and just follows the links [5].

I may have to keep an idea like this in mind for next year's NaNoGenMo
(National Novel Generation Month) [6].

[1] http://i.puthtml.com/content_forever/phpIapmgd
[2] http://tinysubversions.com/contentForever/
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8769414
[4] http://www.wikipedia.org/
[5] http://tinysubversions.com/contentForever/drafts.html
[6] https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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