changed: - „nam shub“ is a text processor and performance system. it takes the textual content and applies user defined rules to generate visual-, sound- and concrete abstract poetry out of it. these rules consist of operations that change the text or modify the visual appearance. it is designed as a tool for both creators and performers of text and language oriented arts. you could see it as a combination of a modular live performance system like PD and a text processor. „nam shub“ is still under development but will be released under an open source licence and is intended to work on the three most important operating system platforms. it is written in python with support of various open libraries like wxPython and pygame. the program is scriptable and supports live coding through various enhancements of usual programming aids. one of this feature is for example the code mutator: with this tool you can write scripts without typing a single command. like in genetic algorithms you can try out different randomly generated variations of scripts and choose the ones you like. according to Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, the ancient sumerian „nam shub“ of Enki was a neurolinguistic hack aimed against the standardarization and unification of society and human life through verbal rules and laws. therefore „nam shub“ can be seen as a computerlinguistic hack targeted against a global unified culture and empire. more info here: http://joerg.piringer.net/software/namshub/ for screenshots (lo- & hi-res) go here: http://joerg.piringer.net/software/namshub/screenshots.htm