Complaint-letter generator fame (but no fortune)

Scott Pakin's Automatic Complaint-Letter Generator is famous the world over. Below are some of the newspapers, magazines, radio programs, TV shows, etc. that have mentioned my program.

• The Arizona Republic gets the prize for writing the very first article mentioning the automatic complaint-letter generator (Business Computing, p. E2, 2 January 1995).
• I'm famous! A newspaper article about the complaint-letter generator appeared in a few newspapers around the country (18 January 1995).
• Now I'm more famous! The complaint-letter generator was mentioned in an XS magazine article (27 June 1995).
• Now I'm really famous! There was a Newsweek article mentioning the complaint-letter generator (Cyberscope, 5 June 1995).
• Okay, I'm back to just "more famous." The Herald Times (Bloomington, IN) ran an article about the complaint-letter generator (16 November 1995).
• Network World says you can "use this to generate complaint letters about, oh, people who hurl Shakespearean insults at you" (Abend, 22 January 1996).
• Believe it or not, a letter produced by the complaint-letter generator made it into Adam Cain's M.S. thesis on "bonzo-coding" -- see page 86.
• As seen on TV! NewsTalk Television named the complaint-letter generator "Web Site o' the Day" (Final Edition, 28 May 1996).
• Websight says "If there is someone in your life that you want to complain about, why be creative? Pick the number of paragraphs and let the computer write it for you" (August, 1996, p. 69).
• Know Russian? Have a WWW browser configured to read KOI-8-encoded Cyrillic fonts? Then read a Russian-language newspaper article about me that appeared in Vesti, an Israeli newspaper (28 August 1996).
• As heard on the radio! The Norwegian, government-owned NRK P3 radio channel talked about the complaint-letter generator for about four minutes in their "Safari" program (3 September 1996).
• America Online considers the complaint-letter generator a "Super Mega Cool Link". But you already knew it was, didn't you? (8 December 1996)
• As heard again on the radio! One of Denmark's biggest radio stations (P3) mentioned the complaint-letter generator (15 January 1997).
• The automatic complaint-letter generator -- or should I say, den automatiske klagebrevs generator? -- was Privat Computer's 5th coolest page of the month in February, 1997.
• The complaint-letter generator was named Site du Jour of the Day by the Site du Jour of the Day mailing list (10 April 1997).
• Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The Australian says the complaint-letter generator is "somewhat of a Cyber-Cyrano de Bergerac gone to the dark side" and that my program's "eloquence and ever-changing range of profundities suggest Kasparov could have used this to spook Deep Blue in their recent matches" (17 June 1997).
• I'm a hit in Stockholm! Sweden's second-largest morning paper, Svenska Dagbladet, mentioned the complaint-letter generator in their 23 July 1997 issue (p. 25).
• And why am I a hit in Stockholm? Maybe because of a report on culture on the Internet someone presented to a Swedish government committee (summer, 1997).
• The complaint-letter generator was mentioned in the Cyberculture column of the 7 November 1997 issue of the Denver Post
• Not wanting to be outdone by the Denver Post, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel made sure to mention the complaint-letter generator, too, in their 7 January 1998 "InSite" column (Cue section, page 3E).
• If you're in southeast Asia, you may have seen the complaint-letter generator featured on Hong Kong's "Tech 2000" T.V. show (January, 1998).
• Norwegian NRK radio PeTre named the complaint-letter generator their "net site of the day" (3 March 1998).
• The automatic complaint-letter generator was named Site du Jour of the Day by the Site du Jour of the Day mailing list for the second time (4 April 1998).
• While not exactly a place I would have expected to see an article about my program, the Investor's Business Journal decided to write an article about the automatic complaint-letter generator for their 30 April 1998 issue.
• While not exactly a place I would have expected to hear mention of my program, CNBC says the automatic complaint-letter generator demonstrates "wonderful creative writing." (3 May 1998)
• The automatic complaint-letter generator was mentioned on Neal Boortz' radio show on Atlanta, Georgia's NewsTalk 750 WSB (13 May 1998).
• MTV UK/Ireland's Up For It Live Show said the automatic complaint-letter generator "really rocks us, lights our ring!" (21 May 1998).
• An Orlando Sentinel article on the automatic complaint-letter generator presents some sample output (29 May 1998).
• The Technology section of the Dallas Morning News had a blurb about the automatic complaint-letter generator on 21 July 1998.
• Another big-city newspaper says something nice about the automatic complaint-letter generator: The Chicago Tribune deems the automatic complaint-letter generator "eerily useful">.
• The complaint-letter generator was mentioned in the San Diego Reader (?? Sep 1998).
• What better way could Britain's second-oldest daily newspaper, The Guardian, fight "scurrility and slander" than with the help of the automatic complaint-letter generator? On 12 Sep 1998, their magazine supplement "The Editor" ran a complaint about Britain's Trade and Industry Secretary ("Peter Mandelson is ruining us", p. 21).
• Not wanting to be outdone by The Guardian, The Independent mentioned the automatic complaint-letter generator in the Net Gains section of one of their magazine supplements (26 Dec 1998).
• Not wanting to be outdone by The Independent, .net, the "UK's best-selling Internet magazine," mentioned the automatic complaint-letter generator in its December 1998 edition ("Quick Hits", p. 9).
• The Reviewer, the last newspaper in Canada to be printed using letterpress printing techniques, named the automatic complaint-letter generator one of "Dark Wing's Web Links" for January, 1999 (vol. 7, no. 1, "Just for Fun" section).
• 30 more seconds of fame! I was interviewed about the automatic complaint-letter generator on Associated Press radio (~10:20 EST, 27 April 1999).
• An LA Weekly article (Los Angeles, California) even likes my New and Improved log (8 July 1999).
• The Connections column in the Business section of The Cincinnati Post featured the automatic complaint-letter generator (20 July 1999).
• The British are coming! The British are coming! To the automatic complaint-letter generator, that is. The Observer, the Sunday complement to The Guardian, mentioned my program in their Internet column. (" The diary of a Texan nobody", 1 August 1999).
• The automatic complaint-letter generator was listed in USA Today in an article called "Write earnestly in more than 100 languages" (1 September 1999, "Life" section, page 6D).
• Greece's RAM magazine mentioned the automatic complaint-letter generator in an article on automatic text generation (September 1999). What would Socrates have thought?
• Earthlink, one of the largest ISPs around these days, pointed its members to the automatic complaint-letter generator in its weekly newsletter, eLink, in the "Weird Web" category (15-21 November 1999).
• As my program's second appearance in an Arizona newspaper, the Arizona Daily Sun ran a brief mention of the automatic complaint-letter generator on 17 January 2000.
• Apparently, MacAddict got a kick out of my use of "Microsoft" as the sample company to complain about. They mentioned the automatic complaint-letter generator in the March 2000 issue of their magazine (Shut Down column).
• Someone sent the editor of H-Tiller Magazine a complaint produced by the the automatic complaint-letter generator. And, because the editor had "longed for this kind of passionate hate for an eternity," she printed it (issue 17).
• An Baltimore Sun article includes the automatic complaint-letter generator in a list of wacky Web sites (12 June 2000).
• The Register (slogan: "Biting the hand that feeds IT") printed a couple of complaints produced by the automatic complaint-letter generator in a "Flame of the Week" column (28 July 2000).
• The Minneapolis Star Tribune praises the automatic complaint-letter generator's Literate, tastefully done letters (30 July 2000).
• The Daily Mirror has "[finally] discovered where all those mad complaint letters come from" (Kelly's I, 1 August 2000).
• The automatic complaint-letter generator was mentioned in the Spring 2001 (February?) edition of Mountain Biking UK magazine (p. 37). Apparently, someone used the program to complain about MBUK in the previous issue.
• The Computer Times supplement to Singapore's The Straits Times put the automatic complaint-letter generator on the "love" side of their feature article, " Web sites you love or hate" (6 June 2001).
• The automatic complaint-letter generator was featured on TechTV's The Screen Savers, as Jessica's Site of the Nite (8 August 2001).
• John Kelso's column in the Austin American-Statesman described a humorous incident involving the automatic complaint-letter generator and the former mayor of Austin, Texas (19 August 2001).
• For the second time, the Chicago Tribune writes how much they like my site (2 February 2002).
• The automatic complaint-letter generator is mentioned in the book 505 Unbelievably Stupid Web Pages (1 September 2003).
• As the first newspaper to mention the automatic complaint-letter generator's new location, the Toronto Star hypothesizes that the "crazy ranting people" who drive front-line receptionists mad get their "nutty scripts" from the automatic complaint-letter generator ("27 Million Ways To Live Your Life", 30 March 2004).
• The automatic complaint-letter generator appeared on Wikipedia's main page on 13 September 2009 in the Did you know… column.