Meta-Press Spook

Are you tired of hearing about three-letter agencies violating your civil liberties?  Don’t you wish that you could get them to go through some legal formalities, like GETTING A WARRANT before listening to your phone calls and reading your email?  Sorry, I can’t help you there, but if you’ve got a WordPress blog, I can help you thumb your nose at them!

Simply install Meta-Press Spook, and you can get your own sidebar widget for your WordPress blog that contains a bunch of randomized subversive words which are bound to cause amusement to bored NSA snoops!  It’s guaranteed to have roughly the same effect as the old M-x spook program from Emacs! (mild amusement…)

Download Meta-Press Spook here.

Warning:  I just don’t have the time or inclination to provide official support for this plugin.  That said, this one is really simple as far as WordPress plugins go – it’s a single .php file that prints stuff in a sidebar.  Getting it working is not that hard.

Anyways, installation instructions:

  1. Copy the mpspook.php file into your wp-content/plugins directory of your WordPress blog.
  2. Go to the admin page of your blog, go to Plugins, you should see and activate the Meta-Press Spook plugin.
  3. Go to Appearance->Widgets in your blog’s admin page, you should see Meta-Press Spook as a widget.  Add it to your sidebar like any other widget, and enjoy!

That’s it!  It’s under the GPL license, so feel free to hack to your heart’s desire!