THOSE MONKEYS ARE HACKS

Professors and students at the University of Plymouth in the UK have finished experiments testing the theory that an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters would eventually produce the works of William Shakespeare. The study charted the creative output of six monkeys for a month before the researchers concluded that the monkeys wouldn't ever come up with anything even closely resembling a single word. Instead of churning out rhyming couplets and over-dramatic sonnets, the monkeys only succeeded in partially destroying the equipment and using it as a toilet. They did come up with about five pages of text, almost exclusively of the letter "s", as well as a few occurances of the letters a, j, l, and m. (BBC)