Type something in at the “I Write Like” site, “iwl.me”, and you’ll get an allegation that the text is written “like” that of someone famous. \u00a0 Now, I’m sure it’s doing something kinda computational with its input, but…<\/p>\n
H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness<\/em> (from here<\/a>): George Orwell.<\/p>\n George Orwell, Burmese Days<\/em>, chapter one (from here<\/a>): Margaret Mitchell.<\/p>\n Charles Manson quotes (from here<\/a>, both pages, with the words “Charles Manson” removed): Kurt Vonnegut.<\/p>\n Mao Tse Tung (in translation, sources of quotes removed, from here<\/a>): Kurt Vonnegut.<\/p>\n Unabomber’s Manifesto (from here<\/a>): Mario Puzo.<\/p>\n Hitler’s Mein Kampf<\/em>, chapter one (in translation, from here<\/a>): Ernest Hemingway.<\/p>\n German news magazine article (from here<\/a>): Edgar Allen Poe.<\/p>\n Poe’s “The Tell-tale Heart” (from here<\/a>): Vladimir Nabokov.<\/p>\n Nabokov’s “Signs and Symbols” (from here<\/a>): David Foster Wallace.<\/p>\n Twain’s “The War Prayer” (from here<\/a>): David Foster Wallace.<\/p>\n Bourne shell source code (from here<\/a>, both main.c and word.c):\u00a0 David Foster Wallace.<\/p>\n \u05e9<\/p>\n Addendum (2010 July 16): Jim Macdonald has documented<\/a> how the site serves as a lead-in to suck money out of you via the old vanity press scam. \u00a0(To help foster the site’s coming and well-deserved fall into Internet history’s trash heap, I’ve edited out this post’s active pointer.)<\/p>\n