A robot which blogs neo-con rhetoric.
Pretty funny… but how do we know Rush Limbaugh’s shows aren’t written the same way? Maybe his producers should save some money and just hire R Robot.
R. Robot — who has passed an unofficial Turing Test a couple of times — is a rhetoric simulator. He shuffles grammatical chunks into into thousands of loathesome new templates. He’s a Perl CGI script, hooked up to a Movable Type engine for good measure — making him the first blogger who is also a computer program (to the best of our knowledge.)
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His adjectives and nouns are taken from a Newt Gingrich memo called “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control.” It recommends using words like “candid,” “pristine,” and “reform” for your team’s ideas, and imagery like “machine,” “abuse of power,” and “decay” for the other guy’s.
Web link of note: R Robot
(At http://www.rrobot.com/weblog/)