Thomas Silkjær | Graphic design & photography

I have been playing a little around with funny IRC bots today for the IRC channel of a big danish Wii community, wiinyt.dk (#wiinyt @ irc.wiinyt.dk).

I stumbled across PircBot, and two bots based on the API, PieSpy and Comic Bot.

PieSpy is really cool, and I think I am going to stick with it. It generates a social networking chart based on conversations on the IRC channel. The closer names are located to each others, and the thicker the line between them is, the more they have spoken together - take a look at these:

Comic Bot is quite fun - it is listening to conversations on the IRC channel, and whenever it "think" something fun has been said, it generates a comic strip from a series of comic-strip templates. I'm not going to keep it online though, but still here is a couple of strips (sorry about the danish):