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Here's a thought: something decent might yet emerge from the god-awful blogosphere. Here's my theory: spam blogs have largely been eliminted by word verification algorithms designed to detect overly repetitive or mechanical text. So the next generation of spam software has become more sophisticated, but it wasn't sophisticated enough. Now, if we continue this cycle of ruthless natural selection, I predict that in a few years we son't be able to tell the difference between genuine comments and spam. As evidence, I present this "poem" a friend of mine received. Now, it's obvious it was written by a machine. But what's key is that it is not immediately obvious. In fact, I though there was a kind of haunting beauty to the first lines, before the egregious breaches of grammar kicked in. Kind of like the stuff an insecure teenager migth write, trying to impress with his/her large vocabulary, not quite realizing that quality in writing comes more from structure than individual words. Anyways, here goes:

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Consider: "Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."