Comments on: regular expressions are cool /2007/08/regular-expressions-are-cool/ Sarah Allen's reflections on internet software and other topics Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:51:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 By: Ian Wojtowicz /2007/08/regular-expressions-are-cool/#comment-290 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:51:36 +0000 /wordpress/?p=310#comment-290 Combining regular expressions with email archives and speech synthesis can be a fun way to recall the past, and reflect on aspects of one’s personality or relationships with others.

I wrote a little app a few years ago that would read aloud all self-referential statements from my email archives.

http://woj.com/whispers/

It’s a very solipsistic art app, but the point is that there are some interesting interaction possibilities when you intersect a few powerful tools.

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