I'd also recommend a good game of arXiv vs. snarXiv:
<a href="http://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/" rel="nofollow">http://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/</a><p>As a non high-energy physicist, it's surprisingly hard! I usually do _worse_ than random chance, sometimes substantially so.<p>The author also has perhaps my favorite definition of a CFG: "The snarXiv is based on a context free grammar (CFG) — basically a set of rules for computer-generated mad libs."
When I ran it on my advisor's name, it gave the actual titles of two of his papers. Entertaining, though.<p>It seems to be a common pattern. When I ran it with the argument "A Einstein", I got "On the electrodynamics of moving bodies." as one of the results.<p>Edit: Also, for "P Erdos", I got "On a new law of large numbers."
Lovely :)<p>Reminds me of my own playing with markov chains; <a href="http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/13292744100/the-spam-posts-on-a-forum-i-keep-an-eye-on-are" rel="nofollow">http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/13292744100/the-s...</a>
Also see <a href="http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/" rel="nofollow">http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/</a>, an automatic CS paper generator. One of their papers was accepted to a conference, and they gave some hilarious speeches (also in link).
shameless plug:<p>I wrote a "Lorem ipsum" replacement based on Markov chains and some public domain books as the corpus, <a href="http://wordum.net" rel="nofollow">http://wordum.net</a>