Thursday, July 22, 2004

The Western Canon Is Safe

Some British researchers tested the “a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters” theory, sort of. Unwilling or unable to round up the requisite numbers of primates and Underwoods, these charlatans of the U.K. gave six monkeys one computer, and drew the following conclusion from their observations:

The monkeys aren't reducible to a random process. They get bored and they shit on the keyboard rather than type.


Wow. It's like looking into a genetic mirror, isn't it?

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