ppg256 by Nick Montfort http://nickm.com/temp/ppg256.zip ppg256 was Montfort's new year's poem for 2008. It is a Perl program that generates poems without recourse to any external dictionary, word list, or other data file. It was written, in part, to uncover what the essential elements of a poetry generator are. The program itself is shorter than this description. To run ppg256 in Perl, follow the instructions on the ppg256 page. Windows users will have to install Perl (which can be downloaded for free) to be able to run the program, modify it themselves, and run modified versions. It is possible to just see the program executing on Windows without installing Perl, by running ppg256.exe. 2008-01-01