gpThomas

As a first plugin I took an existing one and modified it. The Hello Dolly plugin was the perfect place to start. All of the lyrics have been replaced with EVERY quote from the HAL: 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. While wandering the admin pages of your wordpress installation you will be accompanied by these sometimes creepy phrases. Most of the time they don’t make sense out of context but it’s still a laugh if you’re familiar with the movie. And if your not, you’re are missing out on a classic.
<h3>Arbitrary section</h3>
// 
// Dear maintainer: 
// 
// Once you are done trying to ‘optimize’ this routine, 
// and have realized what a terrible mistake that was, 
// please increment the following counter as a warning 
// to the next guy: 
// 
// total_hours_wasted_here = 5 
//

hello_dave

Based on Matt Mullenweg's "Hello, Dolly." Instead of the lyrics from Louis Armstrong's Hello, Dolly you get HAL 9000 quotes.

mmilan81

This plugin allows you to add a widget to sidebar with quotes from your published posts. The quotes will be shown with link to the rest of the post. Also, it allows you to add some useless knowledge facts.
If you want to place quotes somewhere in the theme file you can use the function
The parametar are: 
 _num – number of displayed qutes (default: 1) 
 _blank – on|off, open the link in a new window (default: ‘on’) 
 _credits – on|off, display autho’s credits (default: ‘on’)
Changelog:
<pre><code>2015-04-02, version 0.3.5
 New: add the quotes anywhere you want in the theme; function show_mmdyk ();

2015-03-13, version 0.3.2
 Update for WordPress 4.1.1

2012-10-09, version 0.3.1
 Bugfix & version compatibility

2011-05-20, version 0.3.0
 New: display multiple facts in a widget
 New: open link in new windows
 Bugfix: CSS styling is easier now

2010-01-11, version 0.2.1
 Bugfix: Problem with Cyrillic letters solved

2010-01-08, version 0.2
 Options page added.

2010-01-08, version 0.1
 First realase!
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Display useless facts or quotes from posts (with link) at the sidebar widget.

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