STATEMENT: FORT! DA!Fort! Da! is a search poem game. The user types words or phrases
into the form provided, and Fort! Da! searches its internal collection
of texts for a match. It then returns a phrase from the text collection
in the blue output pane. This can be repeated indefinitely, creating many
poems from slivers of the text set. The text set consists of three categories: hypertext and network criticism, erotic stories, and religious texts. The category the user queries depends on the time of day: in the morning, network criticism; in the afternoon, erotic stories; in the evening, religious texts. These times are based on your system's clock. If Fort! Da! cannot find a match for your word or phrase, it will display either a 404 string ("4040404040404"), a punctuation mark, or nothing at all. I have found that the best results are obtained by either searching common words ("the", "was", "is") or by using context-specific words (for example: in the morning, search "hypertext", in the afternoon search "stiff" or "wet", in the evening, "God" or "thee"). Fort! Da! was composed from February 8, 2003 to March 4, 2003. To open Fort! Da!, click on the logo above.
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