At http://www.speakerscorner.org.uk/index.html , there is a text box. If you type text into this box -- just a snippet, a few words -- and push the button below it, what you type will a few seconds later scroll (repeatedly) 15 meters across an LCD wrapped around a building in the center of Huddersfield, UK.
This is very cool. And it occured to me that since some nodeshells (and ex-nodeshells) are the greatest decontextualized snippets of language I've ever read and should by rights be in fortune cookies everywhere, it would be great to Cast them out into the real world to be seen by students and communters and homeless people as they walk by.
A long time ago I made a list of node titles I liked. It was a spur of the moment thing, so it's very incomplete, and it was a misty-mood thing, so it leans a bit toward the Overtly Emotional, but here they are:
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Please tell me everything, this means you, I am hungry and also
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I like the (idea) love it's
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somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
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Softly, at first, as if it hardly meant it, the snow began to fall
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I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do? (Actually, I already posted this one. But it deserves to be posted multiple times if any of these do.)
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Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
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She bought a new smile every week when we first started seeing each other. Then I had to buy them.
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There were only twelve raindrops, she counted them on the windshield under heavy soft skies
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She pulled out a pen and paper
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The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair
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France, she said
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What do you see when you close your eyes?
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Now I ask you, is that any way for a cosmic body to disintegrate?
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our lives and these empty spaces aside
I'm sure there are hundreds more that are just as good (some undoubtedly better suited to infringing on the mental space of unsuspecting English people than others). Type them in. Reach out and touch someone.
(If you want me to include them in this writeup, message me.)