Programming as music and drama

Velato is a programming language in which the source code consists of MIDI music files, so that each program doubles as an electronic tune. This is how a "Hello World" program sounds, and this is an accordion rendition of a program that copies input to output.

Another strange programming language is Shakespeare, in which programs look like plays; variables have the names of characters and their values are determined by equations encoded as invective. The results are rather absurdist:

Scene II: Juliet and Ophelia's conversation.
[Enter Ophelia]
Juliet:
Thou art as good as the quotient between Romeo and the sum
of a small furry animal and a leech. Speak your mind!
Ophelia:
Thou art as disgusting as the quotient between Romeo
and twice the difference between a mistletoe and an 
oozing infected blister! Speak your mind!
[Exeunt] 

"...delicatessen cataract napkins of lightning chased one comp like battling fiery dragons"

A Dada-esque video based on vaguely Biblical gibberish text from a spam e-mail:

More nonsensical spam text here.

Primordial virus

Elk Cloner:  The program with a personality

        It will get on all your disks
          It will infiltrate your chips
            Yes it's Cloner!

        It will stick to you like glue
          It will modify ram too
            Send in the Cloner!

--The message displayed on screen by computers infected with Elk Cloner, one of the first computer viruses. Created in the early 1980's by a high school student, this program spread on Apple computers through floppy disks, and little could be done about it because anti-virus software hadn't been developed yet.

Visual music and digital dreams

Lumia is an art form invented by Thomas Wilfred in 1919, consisting of light refracted through glass of different colors and forms, creating ethereal abstract forms. Wilfred created a device he dubbed the Clavilux, from the Latin for "keyed light". This device was to light as a musical instrument is to sound; continuing the musical analogy, it had a turntable that rotated glass disks like records.

A modern analog to Lumia might be the abstract compositions of the screensaver Electric Sheep, created by feedback between millions of computers "dreaming" in sleep mode.

Electric Sheep screenshot from Wikimedia Commons.

Videos of both can be seen below the fold.

Hydrogen atom living with necromancer

Most piroshki believe that living with hydrogen atom admonish defined by inferiority complex.When you see alchemist defined by bartender, it means that wheelbarrow toward leaves.widows remain curmudgeonly.Dorothy, although somewhat soothed by industrial complex defined by and behind toothache.

Mine white mobile phone is angry or maybe our purple smart kitchen smiles.
Her expensive hairy printer smells.
His stupid glasses stares.
Our green sofa sleeps.
Our silver underwares smiles.

Examples of spam poetry, randomly generated nonsense text used to trip up spam filters. Here is another, possibly even stranger: 

Did you see the PBS documentary about executives which claimed that children are often described as magicians? Children are very motherly towards women! Cat lovers spy on parasites. Why do hard rock geologists deny that the mailmen remind me of tax collectors? Cyborgs secretly admire subterraneans.Was it the topologists who told me that the bookworms show contempt for termites? Fathers search Yahoo for sites on quacks. Old-timers, for the most part, believe judges prefer to be called VCR owners. Technicians follow the herds of Sumo wrestlers. Ants sing sweetly to ghouls. Queen bees were raised by flatworms. Ants claim that the seismo-zombies pander to the whims of milkmen.

Ancient computer animation

Created in 1990, "Breaking the Ice" is a charming story set in a strange bubble world of fish and birds:



The CGI creatures in this video (except for the protagonists) are examples of "boids", virtual life-forms which possess a very simple form of AI. They are programmed to simulate the flocking behavior of real birds and fish, following their fellows and avoiding collisions with them, or with obstacles.

50's love poetry-- by a computer

Back in 1952 a team of scientists was desperate to test the capabilities of Mark One `Baby`, the computer built at Manchester University.

One of them, Christopher Strachey, devised a quirky software programme by entering hundreds of romantic verbs and nouns into the new machine.

Here are a couple examples of the output; note the recurring sentence templates:

• MOPPET DUCK

YOU ARE MY LOVESICK HEART. MY EROTIC PASSION WANTS YOUR AVID ADORATION. MY ADORATION WISTFULLY IS WEDDED TO YOUR FERVENT PASSION. YOU ARE MY LOVELY ENCHANTMENT. MY FONDNESS AFFECTIONATELY PANTS FOR YOUR CURIOUS ADORATION.
YOURS BEAUTIFULLY

• DUCK HONEY

YOU ARE MY PRECIOUS ARDOUR. MY DESIRE ANXIOUSLY CHERISHES YOUR HUNGER. MY HUNGER CARES FOR YOUR RAPTURE. MY LOVELY FONDNESS CARES FOR YOUR TENDER PASSION. YOU ARE MY SWEET ENTHUSIASM.
YOURS SEDUCTIVELY

Make your own random romantic poem here.

The 2007-2012 World Outlook for Computer-Generated Books Costing $400 or More

• The 2007-2012 Outlook for Tufted Washable Scatter Rugs, Bathmats and Sets That Measure 6-Feet by 9-Feet or Smaller in India
• The 2007-2012 Outlook for Lemon-Flavored Bottled Water in Japan
• The 2007-2012 World Outlook for Agricultural Field and Row Crop Power Sprayers over 4 G.p.m. Excluding Tractor Mounted, Piston Pump, and Non-Piston Pump Type Sprayers
• The 2007-2012 World Outlook for Sailboats More Than 9.0 M (29.53 Ft) and Less Than 12.0 M (39.03 Ft) in Length with Auxiliary Motor Excluding Military and Commercial Sailboats
• The 2007-2012 World Outlook for Domestic Shipments of White Flour Shipped to Blenders or Other Processors for Use in Food Products Made in Flour Mills
•  The 2007 Report on Pork Rind Pellets and Pork Cracklings Made in Slaughtering Plants: World Market Segmentation by City
• The 2007 Report on Wood Poles, Piles, and Posts More Than 15 Feet in Length Owned and Treated with Pentachlorophenol by the Same Establishment: World Market Segmentation by City

Those are all the titles of books by one Philip M. Parker. If they don't sound interesting, he has thousands of other titles to peruse, including medical sourcebooks, dictionaries, and multilingual crossword puzzle books, as well as market reports like those listed above. All were created with a computer program that searches for the appropriate information and fills in templates, and most (especially the financial reports) are extremely expensive. There must be people willing to pay for these books somewhere. There are certainly people willing to write amusing reviews of them.