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Re pronounceable: I wonder if it makes any sense at all to use full words (from a dictionary), assembled into sentences (using a grammar). They'd be much longer, but (possibly) more readable and memorable. I'm sure this has been done - I wonder how it worked out?

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The problem with this approach is that it implies relevance to the domain.

If I link you to http://hastebin.com/daqasujoko.rb you're thinking either "that's a ruby file" or "that's a URL".

If I link you to http://hastebin.com/foodcatsphone.rb you're thinking "what does this have to do with food, cats or phones?"

Note I specified a grammar, though no semantics. This means sentences, that (usually) will be bizarre and surreal. Like nonsense phonemes, nonsense sentences will (usually) not have any apparent meaning; though both can be suggestive.

A "random" example might be "acatimpliedoncolourlessphones.rb"

The key generation is swappable. Currently I have implemented "random" and "phonetic" but this would be a neat (and easy to add) addition. I'll look into it.

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