Attack of the Monkeys in the News

The Internet is a strange place

The software we use to run LST has a feature that shows us the last 10 or so incoming links that others have made to our site. Fairly frequently, out of ego gratification a sense of scientific curiosity I will follow the links to see who, exactly, is linking to us.

Which is how I came across Attack of the Monkeys, a blog devoted entirely to a single post by Jeremy Weidenhof last March on the subject of… attacking monkeys. The text is a verbatim transcript of this post by Jeremy. The picture used is the same. There is not a single post on any other subject. The “author profile” is that of a monkey. There is a sound clip of a monkey making monkey noises.

So someone out there has either become so infatuated with Jeremy’s post that they decided to create an entire blog devoted only to it, or they’ve written a computer program that takes posts on LST and automatically generates new blogs devoted to each individual one.

I’m not certain which possibility I find more disturbing.

by David Benzion [via lonestartimes.com]