Landon Curt Noll
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Prepare for the winners of **IOCCC28**. > However these are not the 2024 droids you are looking for. :-) The HTML menu (both JavaScript and non-JavaScript) has been updated. The `Status -> Rules and guidelines' have been replaced with two separate menus `Status -> IOCCC rules` and `Status -> IOCCC guidelines`. Added a new top level `social.html` page: built from a new `social.md`. Sorted rules for building specific web pages in the top level `Makefile`. Added `make social` to make the `social.html` page from `social.md`. The `bin/gen-top-html.sh` now is able to process a argument of **social** to process the new top level `social.html` page. Changed `bin/gen-top-html.sh` VERSION from "2.0.0 2025-03-13" to "2.0.1 2025-07-25". Below `About -> Home page` a new `About -> IOCCC social media` menu item as added. Because the menu change touched every HTML file, we changed the general copyright date range for HTML files from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025" due to the extensive changes made for **IOCCC28**. Those markdown files that were modified in 2025 had their copyright date range also changed from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025". Rebuilt tarballs and sitemap due to the extensive HTML rebuilding. Ran `make update` to perform the above.
To build:
make
To use:
./briddlebane
Try:
For some fun every time you log in try running this from your .bashrc or
equivalent file!
You might also like to try:
./try.sh
INSULTS=15 ./try.sh
Judges' remarks:
One could argue that this program was a "diseased dumpster of tripe"
but I suspect that would only result in the judges being heckled as a
"scum-encrusted congress of obscurity" (but only if it was in the early
evening of Dec 22, 2000).
Can you find out how it stores the insult strings? Can you then take an insult and figure out when it will be uttered?
Authors' remarks:
This program was broadcast from deep within the Zarbonic Cluster and received at 9:03pm on March 21st, 2000 by Moxen N. Briddlebane. The original author, as designated by other components of the transmission, refers to himself simply as "Lord Zarbon", though offers no information in relation to the significance of that post. The sole purpose of this program appears to be to degrade and humiliate the people of this planet by calling them names. It takes no input, it only produces a single line of slanderous output.
The program appears to be rather confused, internally. It is
unclear whether or not "Lord Zarbon" truly understands the
mechanics of programming. What is particularly disturbing is
the curious method of insult-encoding employed by this program.
Furthermore, it is ambiguous how said data is arranged and why
it is necessary to resort to trigonometric functions to handle
it. One of the real mysteries involves the numbers 114 and
2, which are, according to Lord Zarbon, very deliberate.