a foreign spanish spam site was removed from the internet. it was like a blog but each sentence was also a hyperlink. the sentences fit together to form something semi-coherent but also strange each sentnece, once clicked (hyperlink) created a new page. that sentence then would be the first sentence and <title> of the new page. the pages seemed to be generated from different sources around the internet; many of the sentences included terms that would be frequently searched for on google (lindsay lohan).

i was delighted by the idea of it, and by my experiences with the individual moments of content. but i never visited the site for much longer than a few minutes, and i visited it quite rarely. while i felt compelled to read and study the paragrpahs of generated text, my desire to clck and see what came next was overpowering.

this experience of useless or purposeless--point(er)less--pleasure: a.p.o.e.t.i.c.s of boredom, of point-and-click

of course there are more features to the web that were useful to me. i frequently turned to other earlier moments of nostalgia--to games and websites i experienced in my childhood, those things which had humored or frustrated me.

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/*
the code: the language of programming, the program that reads my writing and translates it to the screen, to the page, to the user.
*/

i am interested in stealing code, in altering code, breaking code, in revealing the code, in that technology which frustrates and disrupts communications. metaphors and processes:: randomness, hidden content, the mechanisms of reading, the frame, the page ::are recreated real-time in the javascript function.
<!-- function get_random()

it must be put down at some time; it cannot be completed without entering a loop, encountering frustrations.

i have begun to share it with my peers and i am glad to hear they enjoy it. one user delights in the opportunity to play concentration again and again, to beat their own personal time (high-score); another user is delighted when suddenly prompted to donload what might be a virus, but is simply "Kenny G."

The website is cool because it acts like it's playing a joke on you. "Surprise!-- you fell for it" No just kidding. There was a certain level of thrill that went along with each click. I got really frustrated when the colors wouldn't go away because it felt like the website was keeping a secret. Overall, an enjoyable experience.

THIS WEBSITE MADE ME FEEL IMPATIENT. I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE TAKING THE TIME TO FIGURE ANYTHING OUT, I'M NOT EVEN SURE THERE WAS ANYTHING TO FIGURE OUT, I JUST WANTED TO CLICK AND FIND MY STATE JOKE VIDEOS BUT I DIDN'T.

one thing that is weird about the internet, is that you get so used to clicking. click click click. Unless you are told to read the page, meaning you are chekcing an email or reading the news online everything else turns into a game. So i think a lot of the time when I was using the website I was more obsessed with clicking than with actually reading the text. If that was not the point, then im sorry. But if it was, then I thought it was nice be able to go through a sort of maze. I liked being able to distort the text on the one page where you could get the double vision. I just kept clicking and clicking. But something else that is werid when presented with a website where you know that there is many options, you get into your head that there is only one right way. I kept finding myself wanting to make it to "the end" like a page would pop up and tell me that I won something. But apparently, there is no right way, or end. Is that a little frustrating? Yes. But I think people are just too used to on the internet being able have a confimation page, or submit something and then they say "thank you." But there was nothing like that here. But that's alright, it just makes me a little dizzy.

Strangely, I was priviledged to monitor some of my readers. Observe:

the extent to which a viewer can become involved in the co-creation of the text, an ddiscovery of exits (he also accidently encountered a pop-up ad for a match-making website which he mistook for part of my project. not featured in this vdieo_.)

frustrations with the text (which might be playing a joke on you)

and strange approaches to reading a clickable text (like a ginfer scanning the page, but tempted to jump every time it encoutners a link.)

many entrances, many exits: i inserted links that spit the user out to randomly selected destinations in the internet. i'm e-mailing this site to peers, setting it as the homepage on public computers, posting it on online forums and in the comments of soem favorite blogs. we'll see if this allows for users to frequent through--for bypass surgery.

to get bigger, to have more entrances, more exits, to have more randomness and more content. to see more active webpges. a page filled with words, in which all the words are moving. a forest of words in which those clickable words flee from your mouse as you approach them.a book travelled through --a hyperspacefield filled with words like stars to be bypassed at warped speed.

programmed to generate webpages, to create an ever-expanding field of linked sites, a.spam.poetics

frames, the page, the strip, web diagrams-- games, tricks, class participations --togetgoing, press PLAY

thx,