mediator

• Babelfish - probably the most famous mediator
• the Shoudoka Browser - probably the first
• the Malkovich Mediator
• The Dialectizer
• Burn Time
• The Anonymizer (no writeup yet)
• One dialectizer take-off (can't remember the adress) that made everything sound as if Mr. T was saying it (and changed some pictures to A-team framegrabs, and another (www.askjesus.com) that inserted random Jesus-related words and images
• and perhaps most famous of all, a mediator that would take any web page and make it backwards-- as in, it would reverse not only order of letters, but arrangement of tables and even reverse the images themselves.

The core behind Shoudoka, the Malkovich Mediator, and crit.org is open-source and publicly available at crit.org. You can easily create your own arbitrary mediator with very little effort by using the code publicly available there as a base.

A more complete list is at http://www.lfw.org/ping/mediator.html
The first five examples above have been written up. The rest have not. Msg me if you write any of these up and i will add a link.

Me"di*a`tor (?), n. [L. mediator: cf. E. m'ediateur.]

One who mediates; especially, one who interposes between parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them; hence, an intercessor.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim. ii. 5.

© Webster 1913.