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I Write Like . . . a *ing con job
Aha.
Remember the "I Write Like" meme, which looked like so much fun until we found out that no matter what crap you entered, it told you that you wrote like Somebody Awesome?
Spam, spam, spam, spam . . . it's a baited hook for vanity publishers.
I had mentioned to at least one person that I wondered what would happen if you actually entered the text of the authors themselves; the folks on Making Light went one better than that here, and then Revealed All in this later post.
On the other hand, I no longer feel ridiculous for having played with the thing -- not when such luminaries as Neil Gaiman did too.
July 2010
Remember the "I Write Like" meme, which looked like so much fun until we found out that no matter what crap you entered, it told you that you wrote like Somebody Awesome?
Spam, spam, spam, spam . . . it's a baited hook for vanity publishers.
I had mentioned to at least one person that I wondered what would happen if you actually entered the text of the authors themselves; the folks on Making Light went one better than that here, and then Revealed All in this later post.
On the other hand, I no longer feel ridiculous for having played with the thing -- not when such luminaries as Neil Gaiman did too.
July 2010
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I especially got a kick out of Bruce Cohen's discovery that "Watermelon, watermelon, watermelon, watermelon, watermelon" came out to Mark Twain. The gizmo must've been thinking of his line that, "We know it was not a southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented."
Alas that the vanity publishers are also unlikely to repent.