Richard Valentin, former lead singer for the Poster Children, has created an art project called
HOURS. Basically his computer scans the major news sites every hour, finds the two most common words, then prints them out on a continuous sheet of paper. A sample 24-hour period:
| iraq | bush |
| iraq | bush |
| iraq | bush |
| iraq | korea |
| iraq | felix |
| felix | basra |
| felix | korea |
| felix | basra |
| felix | korea |
| felix | korea |
| nuclear | felix |
| nuclear | felix |
| nuclear | felix |
| nuclear | iraq |
| nuclear | iraq |
| nuclear | iraq |
| felix | iraq |
| iraq | nuclear |
| nuclear | iraq |
| nuclear | iraq |
| nuclear | iraq |
| nuclear | iraq |
| nuclear | iraq |
| iraq | nuclear |
This is actually pretty neat. They should do a meta one that prints the two most popular words from the poem at any given time.
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