Housewives take note:

Chuck Berry is the ultimate soundtrack for house-cleaning.

In other news, machines write poetry! …Sort of.

Rather, futurist Ray Kurzweil’s Cybernetic Poet //interprets// poetry…by writing its own. Reading the first sample of its work (“Pages”) left me skeptical, but there was something rather poignant (and adorably sad) about the haiku The Poet composed after reading poems by Patricia Camarena Rose and Wendy Dennis*:

The Stifling Stuffy

The stifling stuffy
Catholic schoolroom,
where I cannot be real

Oh, and what //is// a Cybernetic Poet?

• Short answer: a flexible, intelligent, language-based computer program.
• Long(er) Answer: a linguistic-modeling program with the ability to analyze/generate poetic personality and structure through a series of mathematical and poetic criteria.
• Exhaustive answer: here.

*Can someone link me to original poetry by these ladies? A preliminary search failed to turn up anything.

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