There's a theory that if an infinite number of monkeys had typewriters, they'd produce the complete works of Shakespeare. That's actually a dumbed down version for us non-french speakers. The original was by a guy called Émile Borel, who said 'a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard will almost surely eventually type every book in France's Bibliothèque nationale de France'. As wikipedia points out, 'almost surely eventually' seems rather non-committal. Such is the nature of the french perhaps ;-)

Anyway, it made me think that if monkeys can do it, surely bloggers can come close too. So, after writing a few bits of code, I left my computer to churn over the weekend and see what it would come up with. Basically it looked for blog entries using words from Macbeth (my favourite Shakespeare play), and tried to reconstruct it.

It did very well, although still one or two words missing (I can't believe it couldn't find villainies, don't no-one speak no proper english no more? So I've used it here, which strictly speaking is one great big cheat!).

You can see the results here on my infinite monkeys page. I also added some niceties like a search for your blog, in the hope that people would put nice links to it on their blogs...