The section has the least excuse for existing, which is probably why it's the biggest set of the entire website. Name generators, syllogisms, a spreadsheet actively trying to break itself, a slowly degrading terminal, a dungeon crawler built on management cybernetics. Several of these are part of a critical software studies thread - that is software that argues with itself, or with you, instead of quietly doing what it's told to do.
Flipper board
The classic travel flipper board - can go full screen and take custom messages
Game of Life lab
A lab for Conway's game of life simulation with extra configuration options and tweaks
Meta Name Generator
For a given name and gender the generator produces versions of a name such as a pirate and cyborg names
Chaos spreadsheet
Part of critical software studies - actively working to break itself
REFQuest game
A text-based game that is based on the need to prepare for the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF)
Anti-spreadsheet
Part of critical software studies - the opposite of a well behaved spreadsheet should do
Memory Leak
A piece of command-line performance. A slowly degrading interface that eventually just stops working
Nonsense Syllogism Generator
Syllogisms that are valid but potentially nonsense
Ideas Generator
An ideas generator - that does not use AI - to prompt thinking. Based on the consistent ordering of adjectival types in English
Comply Energy
What seems to be a home energy calculator - it highlights how much the software controls your perspective of what it is doing
Knowledge Dungeon
A dungeon crawler game based on the principles of Stafford Beer's Viable Systems Model
Decimal Clock
A clock that only has 10 hours in the day (and night) but compensates by having 100 seconds in the minute and 100 minutes in the hour
