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I Know
What You're Thinking is a "stream of consciousness" poetry
generator that reanimates the bored and restless texts residing
on your hard drive. I Know What You're Thinking is
your computer speaking to you, retelling all of the stories
that you have told it, chopping them up, splicing the bits
into something new, something you never imagined. I Know
What You're Thinking dredges up slices of five year-old
emails and ten year-old term papers and presents them to you
afresh. Every time your computer is idle for more than a moment,
I Know What You're Thinking is there, exposing your history
one little chunk at a time.
I Know
What You're Thinking trolls the host machine's hard drive(s)
for all the text (.txt) and Eudora/Outlook mailboxes (.mbx)
it can find. It then writes random chunks of text from these
various files to the screen, in five streams. Each stream
has its own particular appearance, and varies in size and
on-screen duration, creating a motion collage of different
layers of semi-transparent text. The result is a disconcertingly
intimate and schizophrenically lyrical look into your activities
on that machine.
In the
browser version, clicking on a chunk of text will open the
source file in Notepad, so you can decide whether or not to
get rid of that embarrasing reference to your aunt's urinary
tract infection.
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