] Hansen and Rubin have written a program that allows them
] to probe into all the unrestricted Internet chat rooms in
] the English-speaking world and dredge up thousands upon
] thousands of random sentences even as they are being
] typed. The casual remarks, desperate pleas, and lecherous
] queries that are sucked out of the stream of world
] chatter are then relayed in various ways on the two
] hundred or so small screens and ten loudspeakers that
] make up the machine's public face. The found words and
] sentence fragments can be strung out at random on the
] display monitors or made to race across the screens in
] constant streams, like a Times Square zipper, giving the
] thing a Jenny Holzer-like gnomic and oracular quality.

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