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Cementimental
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JanusNode

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JanusNode has been my go-to nonsense text generator/mangler/cutup software since it was the "McPoetry" hypercard stack when I was a kid. I recently met up with the author Chris Westbury when he was briefly in the UK, had a nice long chat about all sorts of things :)

He's recently made the desktop software obsolete and replaced it with a somewhat simplified browser version: http://janusnode.com/

...but you can still download the last version of the standalone app for Mac or PC on archive org https://web.archive.org/web/20260310070 ... snode.com/

Both versions include my own surrealist object generator script :)
A stained enameled tiled glittery cabbage in the shape of a battered rough violet cardboard staircase.

A photocopied icon of artificial snow in a tin lunchbox.

A sentimental battered doormat. It has been certified as morally improved by Mrs. Rationality.

A grimey absurd wet blanched almond cardboard purse and a humming velvet trophy in a pram.

A crazy golf hole where the ball must pass through a drawer, bounce off a magnetic vocational flourescent orange false tooth, and stop beside some jade.

An emergency new staircase, labelled in faint medium blue type.

An unused papaya-whip cabinet containing a copper-plated forest green paper measuring jug, a heroic bronze clipboard, and 23 bronze labels.

An unreliable greasy chartreuse glass false tooth resembling a dirty matte black glass curtain ring.

A watercolour of privacy.

A screenprint of an unconvincing gold leafed dried out ceramic spoon, mounted in a philosophical glass dome.

A cheap souvenir of a boiler room.
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Re: JanusNode

Post by iotar »

Oh, I used to love JanusNode. There was some text shredding I did with my early novels that used JanusNode.

I'm sure I've got a load of stuff that I did with it on an older laptop.

Thanks for reminding me!
Cementimental
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Re: JanusNode

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Would be interested to see any of it :)
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