You may be familiar with my Latour Litanizer, a simple example of what I call "carpentry" in Alien Phenomenology. It uses Wikipedia's API to assemble randomized lists of objects of the sort I refer to as "Latour Litanies."

If you've read Alien Phenomenology, you may also remember a related example, that of the "image toy" I made to add some visual interest to the website for the first Object-Oriented Ontology symposium. I'll leave the full story of that affair to the book, but today Mark Sample observed that there's no stand-alone version of that gizmo, so I whipped up a simple example that shows, well, images of things.

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