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Nice! If you don't know about the history of such random phrase generators using dials (and if you haven't read about them in Eco's The Island of the Day Before
by Jun8 16y ago
Nice! If you don't know about the history of such random phrase generators using dials (and if you haven't read about them in Eco's The Island of the Day Before), spend 10 minutes reading Ramon Llull'ls life (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull) and his Ars generalis ultima.
"At the age of 82, in 1314, Raymond traveled again to North Africa and an angry crowd of Muslims stoned him in the city of Bougie or Béjaïa in present-day northern Algeria. Genoese merchants took him back to Mallorca where he died at home in Palma the next year. It is said that before evangelizing he would openly denounce Islam in areas dominated by Islam."
Interesting guy ideed!
- joeld42 16y agoThats neat, thanks for the link. I knew that there was plenty of historical precedent for this kind of thing, but I hadn't heard of Llull before. That's really neat that he also used concentric dials. But I doubt his wheels had Twitter integration, hehehhh..