NetBot Trash News
Somewhere out there is a clever 14-year-old, looking for something to do in his spare time. Here's our suggestion: Create a web-bot that trolls gossip news sites, tallies the top 10 words used, and then feeds those lists to another program that strings together the words, generating apparently real stories.
For example: Britney Spears, marry, paparazzi, court, and Scientology might be used to concoct a random (but nonetheless interesting and credible) story like:
For example: Britney Spears, marry, paparazzi, court, and Scientology might be used to concoct a random (but nonetheless interesting and credible) story like:
Britney Spears has told family and friends she intends to marry her paparazzo lover Adnan Ghalib in a Scientology marriage ceremony.Oh, WAIT.
The troubled singer, 26, phoned an aide with the news from a beach in Mexico, where she fled by private jet with Ghalib, 35, last week.
She is due to appear before a Los Angeles court tomorrow for the continuing battle over custody of her children.
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