The Summarization Game!

geoko

Okay all you mac-os-x-ers, let's see what interesting one sentence summaries we can come up with. Let's think of this as cliff notes for the world. The idea is too find a full text of something, and have os x summarize it for you in one sentence. To do this, select a body of text in either Safari or TextEdit, go the application menu (the one that is the name of the program) and select services -> summarize. Make sure it's set to sentences, and drag the slider all the way done to get one percent.


For example, the wikipedia biography of vin diesel summarizes to:

In an interview on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, he said that he changed his name to "Vin Diesel" while working as a bouncer, because in that business one's real name is not usually given out.

So, that's all you need to know about Vin's life. Next.

bruce

To do this, select a body of text in either Safari or TextEdit, go the application menu (the one that is the name of the program) and select services -> summarize.

geoko

... yea pretty much.

bruce

Genesis:

01:027:025 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's


geoko

the wiki story of "The Legend of Zelda"

Because the Triforce was not divine, and could not judge between good and evil, the goddesses placed the Triforce in an alternate world called the "Sacred Realm" or the "Golden Land", hoping that a worthy person would one day seek it.

geoko

how to cultivate strawberries:

The plantation should be renewed every second or third year, or less frequently if kept free of runners, if the old leaves are cut away after the fruit has been gathered, and if a good top-dressing of rotten dung or leaf mold is applied.

and

The Zelda Theme Song (from the main forum page)

nuh nuh, noonoo, dee doo!

bruce

Pi to 1000 places summarised

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510

geoko

i like to read that space before the "10" as 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375... oh screw it. just call it 10.

mario

Witch's Brew welcome blurb:

That person then creates a panel to follow up the previous one, and so on.

deku12345

Wow that summarizer actually works pretty well for compressing things down to one sentence.

Now if I ever actually get that mac book pro, I might be able to partake in this.

Professor MacJake

Kennedy's Inaugural Address:

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

Bush's 2008 State of the Union:

While the enemy is still dangerous and more work remains, the American and Iraqi surges have achieved results few of us could have imagined just one year ago (Applause).

bruce

Gettysburg Address:

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the

Neville Chaimberlain's announcement of war on BBC Radio in 1939:

We have a clear conscience, we have done all that any country could do to establish peace, but a situation in which no word given by Germany's ruler could be trusted, and no people or country could feel themselves safe, had become intolerable...

mario

Magna Carta:

If we, or in our absence abroad the chiefjustice, make no redress within forty days, reckoning from the day on which the offence was declared to us or to him, the four barons shall refer the matter to the rest of the twenty-five barons, who may distrain upon and assail us in every way possible, with the support of the whole community of the land, by seizing our castles, lands, possessions, or anything else saving only our own person and those of the queen and our children, until they have secured such redress as they have determined upon.

Mish42

U.S. Declaration of independence:

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.

Apathy

Night Lord wrote: »

01:027:025 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's

Your son's what?

geoko

The stuff that belongs to him.

Melted Jhonnycake

The Call of Cthulhu

That my uncle was excited by the tale of the sculptor I did not wonder, for what thoughts must arise upon hearing, after a knowledge of what Legrasse had learned of the cult, of a sensitive young man who had dreamed not only the figure and exact hieroglyphics of the swamp-found image and the Greenland devil tablet, but had come in his dreams upon at least three of the precise words of the formula uttered alike by Esquimaux diabolists and mongrel Louisianans?.